About Us

   Booker T. Washington, once professed that the first education of freed negros in the south was hygiene and self care.  Our passion, intention, and know-how in crafting self-care products are rooted in this education.  Our ancestors knew a great deal of natural home remedies for our skin, hair, and oral hygiene.  However, some decades later, industrialism has removed this awareness of self-maintenance from the modern home. As a result, a public dependency on big corporations to produce and sell hygiene products in mass quantities has developed and become part of the average American lifestyle. What’s worse than taking away this basic independence of self-care and hygienic maintenance is that the Western cosmetic industry has replaced wholesome ingredients for self-care with toxic chemical formulas full of parabens, synthetic dyes, alcohols, and even TOP SECRET…. Glitter.

   Sanctuary + Home is on a mission to make a change by formulating skin care that uses premium quality, all-natural ingredients.  As a result, we have created deluxe, all-natural cosmetics that contain no harmful chemicals, no preservatives or stabilizers, and have no top-secret ingredients. At Sanctuary + Home, we believe that education should be transparent. So all of our products’ ingredients are listed on our labels. If hygiene is our first education, then there should be nothing to hide about how we care for ourselves. 

Sanctuary+Home was setablished in New York, 2022. It started as an idea that recognized a need for quality self care products.  The products were to reflect a lifestyle of sustainability.  So naturally, the idea was to make a body moisturizer that could be used all over the body, without any exceptions. To do this, Elijah-Jihaad, founder, would lean on Industry reasearch that lead him to consider whole, all natural cosmetic ingeriants and materials in formulating a skin care product  that met the wholistc standard of indigenous remedy practice.