BOTANICAL BIOACTIVES / FOUNDING STUDIES

From Grandma Nellie’s Garden.

Family-rooted botanical care with a curious eye on plant chemistry, material and ritual.

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✺SAME ROOTS.
NEW RITUALS.
PLANTS · PEOPLE · RITUALS · ANCESTORS · ALWAYS    /    FROM GRANDMA NELLIE’S GARDEN

WHOA NELLIE! BOTANICALS

Whole plant ≠
whole story.

We look beyond ingredient theater: plant part, fraction, extraction, delivery and feel.

CARE, NOT CORRECTION.
01

THE FOUNDING CABINET

Four materials.
Four behaviors.

Not another shelf of natural skincare.
Whoa Nellie Botanicals founding four product concepts
BOTANICAL
BIOACTIVES
01 / SNOW

Snow Flower

COOL · CUSHION · COMFORT

Snow Chrysanthemum at the center of a lightweight body ritual designed around gentler handling.

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02 / AFTER

After Coffee

RECOVER · REUSE · REFORM

Spent coffee becomes material again: a recovered-bioactive platform built around what remains after the cup.

IN DEVELOPMENT
03 / DARK

Chaga Bronzer

PIGMENT · GLOW · RITUAL

A botanical color study exploring chaga as pigment, material and skin ritual — not another mushroom serum.

IN DEVELOPMENT
04 / SOUR

Sour

SUMAC · POLYPHENOLS · STUDY

A sumac bioactive platform. The chemistry chooses the final format — not the beauty aisle.

IN DEVELOPMENT
COOL
RECOVER
GLOW
STUDY
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GRANDMA NELLIE / FAMILY ARCHIVE

OUR ROOTS

Same roots.
New rituals.

Whoa Nellie! is named in the spirit of Grandma Nellie, whose relationship with land and growing is part of our family story.

We carry that connection forward through plants as materials, care as practice, and curiosity as method.

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STATUS QUO / FLIPPED

Most botanical brands organize products by body part.
We organize ours by what the body is asking for.

SNOW / DARK / AFTER / SOUR