Glow like there's no tomorrow

Age confidently with effective skincare made by someone who understands eczema and menopause from experience

Introducing Face Chai, a 5-step skincare system made to nurture your skin the Ayurveda Way.

Each Face Chai formula is a nurturing blend of gentle, natural, bioactive ingredients carefully chosen from Ayurveda, Herbal and Aromatherapy palettes to balance your skin through all its changes­—stress, weather, hormones, and diet choices­—in short, LIFE.

The Free Lion Story

When our founder, Sherazad, hit peri-menopause in her 40s, her face went crazy—red, dry, flaky, splitting. It wasn’t pretty. Drawing on three generations of Ayurvedic, herbal, and Aromatherapy wisdom, she worked her kitchen magic, creating a gentle, repairing, and balancing skin care system. It not only healed her skin but also kept it nourished, protected, and supple throughout menopause and beyond. Knowing she had to share it to support women in aging naturally, Free Lion Body Care was born. Ready to meet Sherazad and try our legendary Face Chai? Let your Ayurveda Beauty Safari begin...

BE COMFORTABLE IN YOUR OWN SKIN

"Struggling with eczema, rosacea, or acne? Is your skin too sensitive for makeup? Has conventional skincare failed you for years? Don't worry, Free Lion has you covered.

My promise is to deliver you handcrafted skin care, carefully designed to nourish, soothe, repair and protect your skin like never before. My other promise? Your money back if you aren't totally in love with how your skin looks and feels."

  • "I so enjoyed meeting you, your warmth and sincerity. I was a little worried the Facial Oils would cause me to break out but on the contrary it has made my skin soft and moisturized by morning, Thank you so much. I look forward to buying more of your products."

    Theresa F, California, USA

  • “Love the Face Chai Mask Grains for Oily Skin! Easy to dip into anytime you want a nice mask, and is very calming to irritation and leaves my face glowing.”

    Sophie T., Ontario, Canada

  • “I love the Face Chai  Facial Oil, because it leaves my face feeling silky soft and evens out my skin tone. I believe it helps with my fine lines around my mouth and eyes. I won’t use anything else!!”

    Vanessa K, Vancouver, Canada

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  • FREE SHIPPING

    Live in Canada or the USA? Spend $90 CAD or more and get FREE SHIPPING.

    Live in the UK, Europe, Australia or Japan? Spend $130 CAD and get FREE SHIPPING.

    Live anywhere else? Spend $160 CAD and get FREE SHIPPING.

  • BE THE CHANGE

    Coming out of the ravages of war, within a country or our own homes, is no easy journey. It takes courage, hope, and determination, self-love and self-care.
    Free Lion contributes to non-profit organizations that help women and children rebuild their lives. You can join us in making a difference. With every purchase you make, we'll make a donation—for the good of us all.

  • FREE SAMPLES AT CHECKOUT

    Wondering what Mombasa smells like? Or if our Foot Salve is your thing? With every purchase, we include free samples of whatever is fresh from the Free Lion Kitchen. These little goodies are our gift to you. Let us know what you'd like to try at checkout time. If we have it in stock, its yours!

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  • 3 GENERATIONS OF SKIN CARE WISDOM

    "My grandmother was known in her day for her skill with Ayurvedic therapies, both medicinal and cosmetic. She passed this knowledge down to my mother who passed it on to me. Some of our formulas are old school; others are a complex layering of Ayurveda, Western Herbology and Aromatherapy principles."

  • WILD, NATURAL AND NON-TOXIC

    Some of our skin-loving natural ingredients come from the wild; others we get from trusted, certified sources.  We prepare botanical teas, oil infusions, glycerine's and tinctures from scratch. Non-toxic human-created ingredients are added for preservation, texture and absorption. These are never more than 5% of the recipe.

  • HANDCRAFTED IN SMALL BATCHES

    We handcraft our products in small, made-to-order batches to ensure high quality and freshness. We package our products in glass, metal and reusable containers. Also, we reuse lightly used boxes for shipping. Doing our part for the planet, one box at a time.

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Face Chai FAQ's

How Clean is Face Chai? 

We use Wild, natural and non-toxic ingredients in all our products. And each one is handcrafted in small batches to ensure high quality and freshness.

We prepare as many of our own ingredients as possible– botanical oil infusions, teas, glycerites and tinctures. We also use non-toxic human-created ingredients, chosen for their contribution to texture, absorption, skin protection and product preservation. These are never more than 5% of the entire recipe.

What's the shelf life? Do I have to refrigerate Face Chai?

Face Chai is properly preserved using a broad-band preservative. The shelf life is up to a year. No, you don't need to refrigerate it.

How do I know if Face Chai will work for me?

Honestly, you won’t know until you try. That being said, our Face Chai is a perfect choice for those who want to make the shift to natural ingredients for sustained, long term, radiant skin health without sacrificing effectiveness or ease of use

Do you have a Starter Kit?

Yes we do! We recommend getting our 30 day Trial Bundle to start. It has 30 days worth of each Face Chai component to take you through the transition period that most skin types need when switching to natural ingredients. 

Will I have to go through a detox period? 

You may have to. That depends greatly on your skin health and how many beauty product toxins it needs to detox from. Give that process at least two weeks and drink lots of water. You can also drink warm lemon water in the morning before eating or drinking anything else. That's an old school Ayurveda detox remedy. Also, let your face breath, free from foundation make-up, while you're detoxing. That might help, too.

Why are there so many components? Other natural skin care lines only have one or two

Each Face Chai component is a complex layering of carefully chosen plant ingredients that work collaboratively to produce nurturing goodness for your skin. Together, they prepare your skin to receive nourishment, hydration, moisturizing and protection.

They also allow you to customize your skin care as required, to add more moisturizing, hydration or exfoliation. The weather changed and you need a little more moisturizing? Add a couple of drops of Facial Oils to your Moisturizing. Need more hydration in the summer? Take your Hydration Spritz along with and use as a pick me up throughout the day. Face feeling irritated? Use your Facial Oils as an oil cleanser. You get the idea.

Menopause is making my skin dry and flaky. My face hurts. Will Face Chai work for me?

Sounds like your skin needs some soothing, some repair, hydration and moisturizing. We've got your face care needs covered. Our Face Chai for Dry and Sensitive skin is designed exactly for the experience you are having.

How do we know it works? Because this is the Face Chai formulation that took care of our founder, Sherazad's own skin from perimenopause right through menopause and beyond. We're pretty sure it will work for you too.

I'm afraid i’m going to break out if I put oils straight on my skin

Yeah, we know. It’s one of those “rules” from Big Beauty. But before science labs figured so hugely in our skin care, Plant Oils and Butters were how we moisturized our skin, ALL OVER THE WORLD. Centuries of global skin care wisdom can’t be wrong. 

Plant oils and butters help your skin balance out the effect of the sebum that it is producing (or not producing)—from youth, right through to menopause and beyond. Our Facial Oils are blended with just the right oils to help balance out your sebum production, at whatever stage of your life you are at

I usually use harsh chemicals on my zits. Will plant ingredients really work?

Break-outs happen when skin is stressed out— like when there are diet, weather or hormone changes. Or when you use a strong chemical on your skin. So you want skin care that will calm things down, not increase your skin’s stress levels. You also want that skin care system to help your skin to gently maintain a balanced even keel through all your changes. The Plant ingredients in Face Chai for your skin type can help with that