Your skin deserves the best, and nature offers powerful botanicals, clays, oils, and extracts that purify, balance, and protect. From lightweight hydrators like Aloe Vera to pore-clearing white willow bark, each ingredient plays a vital role in Ayurvedic skincare for combination Pitta skin.
Why Natural Ingredients Matter
Combination Pitta skin is typically warm and soft, with a balanced texture, but is prone to redness, inflammation, and pimply breakouts. It is sensitive to heat and sun exposure, often developing rashes, freckles, acne, or irritation in warmer weather. It may also react to hot foods or stress.
To stay balanced and happy, Pitta skin requires cooling & soothing hydration, replenishing moisturization and skin barrier protection to maintain a clear and calm complexion.
Natural botanicals, oils, and plant-based actives help cool, soothe and calm irritation, refine pores, and gently nourish the skin. These ingredients work in harmony with Pitta skin’s needs, keeping it clear, cool, refreshed, and radiant.
How Does Face Chai Help Combination Pitta Skin?
✔ Balanced Hydration: Lightweight humectants provide deep hydration without adding excess oil or causing sensitivity.
✔ Oil & Sensitivity Regulation: Soothing botanicals calm inflammation while gentle clays help control excess sebum in oily areas.
✔ Clarifying & Cooling: Ingredients like turmeric, aloe vera, and rose water reduce redness, purify pores, and refresh the skin.
✔ Gentle Exfoliation: Natural enzymes and AHAs remove dead skin cells, brighten the complexion, and prevent congestion.
✔ Soothing & Protective: Anti-inflammatory extracts heal irritation, strengthen the skin barrier, and protect against environmental stressors.
Our carefully selected ingredients work together to bring balance to Combination Pitta skin, leaving it cool, calm, radiant, and beautifully refreshed.
Face Chai's five steps work in layers to restore, hydrate, soothe, moisturize, and protect Some days, your skin may need all five steps; other days, just one. Listen to your skin and follow its lead—the Ayurveda way!
Pausing between each Face Chai skincare step is key! Each step delivers essential nutrients in the perfect order, allowing your skin to fully absorb the goodness before moving on to the next step. Giving your skin this time ensures you unlock the full power of Face Chai for deep, lasting hydration and healthy, balanced Pitta skin.
What Each Ingredient Does for Your Skin
Here’s our breakdown of the natural skincare ingredients, categorized by their Pitta skin benefits:
😌 Soothing & Cooling Ingredients
Pitta skin is prone to overheating, leading to redness, inflammation, and sensitivity. To restore balance, it needs cooling, soothing ingredients that calm irritation and reduce flare-ups. These botanicals and actives provide gentle relief, helping to ease discomfort, regulate heat, and promote a more even, refreshed, and balanced complexion.
Aloe Vera Juice: A tridoshic plant that soothes, heals, gently exfoliates, and hydrates.
Calendula Flowers: Improve circulation, tone, and color; heal and soothe skin damage.
Chrysanthemum Extract: anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties help soothe, calm, reducing redness, itchiness, and inflammation, and promoting a healthy skin barrier.
Comfrey Extract: Aids in skin repair, soothes irritation and promotes cell turn over. Turmeric Extract: Anti-inflammatory and antioxidant-rich, it reduces redness and speeds up cell regeneration.
Rose Water: Naturally cooling and soothing, helps balance skin tone and reduce redness.
Rose Geranium Water: Hydrates while providing a gentle astringent effect to balance oil production.
💧Hydration & Moisture Balance
Hydration is vital for Pitta skin to maintain its glow and resilience, but it must be light and non-irritating. These ingredients offer deep, soothing hydration while restoring moisture balance, supporting barrier health, and keeping the skin calm, soft, and refreshed.
Hyaluronic Acid: Provides lightweight, deep hydration
Glycerin: Helps maintain the skin barrier and prevents dehydration.
Panthenol (Pro-Vitamin B5): Improves skin barrier function and soothes irritation.
Hydrolyzed Oats: Strengthens the skin’s barrier while providing hydration.
Hydroxyethyl Urea: A powerful humectant that replenishes and retains moisture.
❤️🩹 Anti-Inflammatory & Healing Ingredients
To soothe Pitta’s natural sensitivity, these botanicals work to calm inflammation, support healing, and strengthen the skin’s defenses. Rich in antioxidants and anti-inflammatory compounds, they help repair damage, ease irritation, and improve resilience —promoting a clearer, healthier complexion while preventing future flare-ups and maintaining overall skin balance.
Frankincense Essential Oil: Supports skin healing, reduces irritation while strengthening tone and elasticity
Hemp Seed Oil: Rich in anti-inflammatory compounds that help calm redness.
Evening Primrose Oil: Reduces inflammation, and supports skin repair by improving elasticity and firmness.
Sea Buckthorn Oil: Rich in fatty acids and antioxidants to calm, nourish and repair. Supports skin regeneration and improves skin tone and texture
Allantoin: Encourages cell turnover and supports the skin’s natural repair process.
Papaya Extract: Contains natural enzymes, vitamins and antioxidants that help with gentle gentle exfoliation, reducing inflammation and healing.
Niacinamide (Vitamin B3): Anti-inflammatory and antibacterial properties can help reduce hyperpigmentation, acne and the appearance of pores
✨ Gentle Exfoliation for Radiance
Exfoliation is essential for Pitta skin to maintain a smooth, even complexion, but it must be gentle and non-irritating. These natural exfoliants help remove dead skin cells, unclog pores, and promote cell turnover without causing redness or sensitivity reactions, leaving the skin refreshed, radiant, and perfectly balanced.
Raw Cane Sugar: A natural source of glycolic acid (AHA) that increases cell turnover. Can help minimize pores, leading to a more even and radiant complexion
Gram Flour (Besan): Gentle, cleansing exfoliant that absorbs excess oils and promotes a brighter, even complexion.
Adzuki Bean Flour: A mild exfoliant with saponification properties that cleanses pores, removes dead skin and refines skin texture.
Buttermilk Powder: Contains lactic acid; cools and exfoliates skin, which can help soothe redness and inflammation.
Rice Flour: Detoxifies the skin, soothes irritation, reduces redness, while providing gentle exfoliation.
📍 Oil Balancing & Sebum Regulation
Pitta skin is prone to breakouts, especially in the oilier, T-zone, making gentle sebum regulation essential. These ingredients help balance oil production without stripping the skin or causing dryness. They work to minimize skin stress, prevent clogged pores, and keep the complexion clear, calm, and comfortable, without irritation.
Stearic Acid: Gently cleanses excess oil while leaving a smooth, non-greasy texture.
Coconut Oil: Dissolves excess sebum and impurities, helping to gently cleanse the skin. Geranium Essential Oil: Helps regulate sebum, unblocks pores and helps heal wounds and diminish scars.
Patchouli Essential Oil: Balances oil production while providing antibacterial and calming benefits.
Rhassoul Clay: Draws out impurities while maintaining skin’s moisture balance.
🌼 Antioxidants & Skin Nourishment
Protecting Pitta skin from environmental stressors is key to preventing premature aging, irritation, and sensitivity. Equally important is nourishing the skin with calming, nutrient-rich ingredients that repair, hydrate, and strengthen the barrier. Together, these actions support a healthy, resilient complexion that stays smooth, radiant, and comfortably balanced.
Rice Bran Oil: Rich in essential fatty acids; its Moisturizing, soothing, and antioxidant properties help calm, nourish and protect the skin. Can help spots and scars fade
Red Raspberry Oil: Rich in essentially fatty acids. Provides UV protection and prevents inflammation.
Mango Butter: Deeply moisturizing, soothing, and anti-inflammatory, helping to calm redness, reduce inflammation, and protect skin from moisture loss.
Camellia Seed Oil: Absorbs quickly, providing antioxidanta anad essential fatty acids for softer skin.
Rose Hip Extract: Rich in Vitamin C, helps brighten skin and reduce hyperpigmentation.
Maca Extract: Provides essential nutrients to improve skin’s radiance, luminosity while smoothing fine lines and stimulating cell renewal
🛡️ Additional Barrier Repair & Protection
A strong skin barrier is key to preventing sensitivity and irritation. These ingredients reinforce the skin’s natural defenses:
Cetyl Alcohol: Softens and smoothes the skin while creating a protective barrier, preventing moisture loss.
Emulsifying Wax: A vegetable wax that locks in moisture, tightens and protects the skin
Vitamin E: Helps ease the appearance of wrinkles and reduces dryness.
☔ Safe, Eco-Certified Preservative
This ingredients keeps our skincare products fresh and effective without irritating Pitta skin.
Geogard Ultra: An ECOCERT-certified preservative that’s gentle, non-irritating, and adds extra moisture.
Final Thoughts on Choosing the Right Skincare Ingredients
The secret to healthy Combination Pitta skin lies in choosing the right ingredients for your skin's needs. Nature provides the perfect solutions; 5,000 years of Ayurveda wisdom tells us what works, when and why; and Face Chai puts it all together for you in 5 steps.
The 5 steps work in progressive layers to restore balance, hydrate, soothe, moisturize and protect. Some days you may need all 5, some days you may only need 1. Trust yourself and let your skin speak to you - the Ayurveda way.