Our Story
How It Started
Sans began with care.
When my mother was going through treatment, I watched her skin become increasingly fragile and uncomfortable. I wanted to give her something gentle, something beautiful to use, made from ingredients I understood and trusted.
So I began learning about plant oils, butters, herbs, and the compounds within them. I experimented, studied, formulated, and slowly began creating skincare that felt nourishing, uncomplicated, and deeply kind to the skin.
What started as a way of caring for someone I loved became something much larger. It changed the way I thought about skincare itself.
I began to understand that skin is not something separate from the rest of us. It is part of the whole person, and so much of the life we live has a way of showing up there.
Our skin reflects the life we live.
That belief continues to shape Sans today.
Inspirations
Long before Sans existed, plants were already woven into the way I understood beauty and care.
Many of my childhood summers were spent along the Mediterranean coast of Turkey, surrounded by lavender, olive trees, grape vines, pomegranates, herbs, and flowers. My grandmother dried fragrant plants for the home, prepared simple remedies, made masks from ingredients in the kitchen, and treated caring for the body as an ordinary part of living well.
Nothing about it felt complicated. Plants were simply part of life. So were long meals, fresh food, tea, conversation, time outdoors, caring for one another, and moments that seemed completely ordinary at the time.
Looking back, I understand just how extraordinary many of those moments really were. That memory has become part of the philosophy behind Sans:
The moments we remember most are often the ones that once seemed so ordinary. Time has a way of revealing just how extraordinary they actually were.
Sans is an invitation to notice more of those moments while we are still inside them, to slow down enough to experience the life that is happening now.
Today
Sans is still, first and foremost, a skincare company.
We create concentrated botanical formulas with ingredients chosen for what they bring to the skin, thoughtfully made to support skin that looks and feels its best.
But our understanding of care reaches beyond what we put on our skin. We believe skin is part of the whole person, connected to the way we rest, nourish, move, relate to others, and live our days.
Because to care for the skin well, we have to care for the person, too.
That belief is at the heart of Living with Care, an evolving part of Sans where we explore simple rituals, thoughtful ideas, and people who inspire us to care for ourselves, one another, and the lives we create.
Skincare is where Sans began. It remains at the heart of everything we do.
