About Us

We are a family-owned botanical artisan company located in North Carolina where we formulate our all-natural personal care brand. We offer a range of skin care, body care and wellness products with a curated mix of holistic goods.

Our core values are built on our commitment to provide pure, clean and "green" natural products with the highest qualitative standards in mind. Our products are handcrafted in small batches using high-quality ingredients that are organic, locally wildcrafted ethically sourced from U.S. based suppliers and organic farmers.

We are dedicated to our process and oversee every step in the product lifecycle from ingredient sourcing, formulating, packaging and exchange.

Our brand is Pure, Natural and Handcrafted.

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Our Ingredients

Our ingredients are what we are made of

GROWING

The bulk of natural ingredients are grown from our garden. We grow roses, cucumber, lavender, chamomile, calendula, sun flowers, daisies, peppermint, spearmint, rosemary, lemongrass, lemon balm, basil, purple coneflower, aloe vera, carrots, turmeric, pumpkin... and other seasonal botanicals. Check out our garden album.

WILDCRAFTING

Practicing sustainable wild collection practices, a modest amount of natural ingredients come from local wildcrafting. Depending on the season, nature gifts us with nettle, fennel, burdock, dandelion, red clover, plaintain, elder, daylillies, chickweed and juneberries.

SOURCING

For our sourced ingredients, we give just as much thought and consideration in finding and building relationships with trusted providers -- favorability given to local artisans, farmers and suppliers. We make every effort to source from natural renewable sources and make continuous effort in maintaining quality and purity control.

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Our Formula

Formulated simple, clean and natural

The foundation of our brand is products made from simple botanical based formulas. No matter the process, every botanical ingredient is used for their benefit in our formulations.

Hydrosols

Our hydrosols are steam distilled from fresh plant material without separating the essential oil from the cellular water captured. As a result, our aromatic hydrosols contain the water-soluble active principles of the plant and roughly 0.10% of the essential oil compounds.

Our Botanical Toners are formulated using 70% of our organic floral hydrosol blended with our garden aloe vera and certified organic witch hazel supplied by trusted artisan distillers.

Botanical Extracts in Infused Oil and Glycerites

We make our own herb-infused oils using the “folk” method of herbal extracting which relies on the sun to naturally infuse oil with herbal properties. We immerse dried herbs and flower petals into fractionated (MCT) coconut oil and steep in sunlight for 4-8 weeks, depending on the botanical used.

Our glycerites (glycerin extracts) are made immersing dried herbs and flower petals in organic vegetable glycerin and agitated daily for about 6 weeks. Most recipes call for a 75% glycerine to 25% water ratio, however, we use 100% glycerin with our dried botanicals.

We use oil infusions and glycerites for our salves, soaps, lip balms, creams and oil blends. Our Rose Petal Salve for example, is a formulation of our rose infused-oil, rosehip seed oil, rose absolute essential oil, Vitamin E and beeswax.

Botanicals Additives and Powders

We dry our botanicals and utilize every part of the plant for different processes. Flowers and herbs are gently separated by hand for larger uses such as our bath teas and bath salts. We further grind botanicals and seeds to use as a finer ingredient such as an exfoliating property in our soaps. For natural additives and colorants, we further break down dried flowers, herbs, vegetables and roots into powders.

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Our Story

Twisted Garden existed long before it was established in 2020. Twisted Garden's recipes have a long history with our gardener, formulator and co-founder, Kelly Rock. Kelly grew up in a household where gardening for food and herbal remedies was a lifestyle which she fully adopted as an adult for her own family and friends.

As time allowed and by word of mouth, Kelly offered botanical remedies to local customers for decades as she balanced her family and her career as a Software Architect.

Finally, after years dreaming about growing and handcrafting natural products full-time -- she launched Twisted Garden with her husband. As a team, Kelly and Robert dedicate their time and passion into growing a family business on a farm in North Carolina.