About – Gentle Botanicals

Gentle Botanicals are plant-based lotions, butters, balms, cleansers, and oils that are formulated and produced in small batches here in Bloomington, Indiana. Created with an emphasis on a holistic multi-sensory experience, the three lines, Wild Flowers, Essential Herbs, and Soothing Roots, can be mixed and matched with their distinct, simple, and light scents that complement, never clash.

Sensitive

Only the gentlest botanicals, like calendula, lemon balm, and mallow, along with sunflower oil and mango butter, are used to create an elegant, luxurious, clean and gentle skin care experience.

Scientific

This is skincare based in science and made with top-shelf ingredients formulated for optimal results. Extensive research ensures an exceptional experience with lotions and cleansers that work.

Sustainable

Committed to sustainability, we use post-industrial resin jars, recycled paper labels, and locally sourced ingredients wherever possible.

Meet Dr. Tracy

I believe in essential skin and hair care. I spent so many years of my life chasing the perfect skin care solution – the one that would cure my acne, the one that would control all that oil, that would shrink my pores, that would thicken my hair, that would eliminate my wrinkles – before I realized that claims that sound too good to be true usually are just that. More is not better.

Your lotions should imbue your skin with enough moisture that you feel velvety soft with an emollient barrier that keeps water in your skin where it belongs. Your cleansers should clean comfortably without drying and then rinse easily. This is the essence of anti-aging: Clean, healthy, and protected skin.

The lotions and cleansers I offer do just that. Using basic ingredients that have been scientifically shown to work, I add carefully curated gentle botanical extracts and natural butters and oils to offer you an exceptional sensory experience to cleanse, moisturize, and protect your essential skin. Wild Flowers is a line of gentle floral products for all skin types, Essential Herbs targets oilier skin with astringent herbs, and Soothing Roots is a little TLC for tired, overworked skin. This is essential, and gentle, botanical skin and hair care.