Natura Siberica

[meteor]

Thanks, lapushka! I'm actually surprised it's so easily available internationally now.
Oh, and I should have made it clearer in my post that they used to source their botanicals in Russia. Nowadays, they use some foreign sources additionally, as well.
There is another brand "Agafia" or "Grandma Agafia's Recipes" ("Рецепты бабушки Агафьи"), which is very similar (lots of products/ingredients overlap, lots of dupes) but it is even a lot more affordable, and it was founded and is owned by same people as Natura Siberica and appears to be using some of the same R&D and practices of using the same traditional herbs and oils popular over there, etc - it might be worth checking out for people who liked NS ingredients for whatever reason and are interested in experimenting with these types of products more...

[mira-chan]

Thanks, lapushka! I'm actually surprised it's so easily available internationally now.
Oh, and I should have made it clearer in my post that they used to source their botanicals in Russia. Nowadays, they use some foreign sources additionally, as well.
There is another brand "Agafia" or "Grandma Agafia's Recipes" ("Рецепты бабушки Агафьи"), which is very similar (lots of products/ingredients overlap, lots of dupes) but it is even a lot more affordable, and it was founded and is owned by same people as Natura Siberica and appears to be using some of the same R&D and practices of using the same traditional herbs and oils popular over there, etc - it might be worth checking out for people who liked NS ingredients for whatever reason and are interested in experimenting with these types of products more...

Agafia are ok too. They have these herbal scalp waters that I tried a while ago and it didn't really do anything.

They have expanded a lot. Their skincare before being rebranded was called 'Something' One I forgot the exact name now. I loved that face cream/sunscreen. I actually found Sibirica trying to find where to get it and saw the list of products manufactured by that company.

As for the Italy thing, the store employees straight up told my Mom that the stuff is "made in Italy." I think they tried to be fancy as it's the Nevsky store.

I've checked ingredients for the hair care of both Sibirica and Agafia, and Agafia is more "natural" I find. Sibirica is more geared to be fancy spa products. Agafia has better scent (not punch you with smell level).

Both brands are easily available here in NYC. I do ask my family to bring me things from Russia though as it's cheaper that way. One note of skincare, the Russian sold versions are less likely to have SPF while the "made for export" versions do have SPF. So there are different formulas for some products by this manufacturer, depending on where it will be sold.