homeApothec
Malaysian Botanical Skincare

Your skin can't hold moisture.

When your barrier is depleted, moisture escapes faster than you can replace it. Our 8-week infusions help it hold — steroid-free, made by Tracy.

homeApothec botanical skincare

Waterless

Steroid-Free

No Synthetic Fragrance

8

weeks infusion

6

formulas

0

steroids, ever

0%

water

What's NOT in your bottle

Zero steroids (ever)Zero alcohol (no stinging)Zero parabensZero synthetic fragranceZero animal-derived ingredientsZero water (100% active botanicals)

What's inside: 8-week infused plant oils. Period.

Find your fit

Pick Your Skin Battle

Different skin, same root issue — a barrier that needs rebuilding, not just topping up. Start where your skin is now.

Dry & Sensitive

Dry & Sensitive

Still dry after layering 3 products? Your barrier isn't broken, it's starving. We rebuild it with lipid-rich botanicals, not temporary relief.

Fix the Dryness →
Oily & Congested

Oily & Congested

Stop stripping your skin into producing more oil. Rebalance from the sebaceous level with botanicals that regulate, not punish.

Rebalance My Skin →
Reactive & Irritated

Reactive & Irritated

If your skin reacts to "gentle" products, the problem isn't your skin — it's the ingredient list. Ours has 6 ingredients. Total.

Soothe the Reactivity →

Why nothing has worked

Moisturiser sits on top. The problem is underneath.

A healthy skin barrier is the lipid layer that locks water in. When it's depleted — from stress, air-conditioning, over-cleansing, or years of harsh products — water escapes through it hour after hour. You apply more cream, it feels fine for a while, then the tightness returns. The cream was never the issue. The barrier was.

homeApothec serums are oil-rich and lipid-led on purpose. The Dry Skin Power Serum is built on calendula-infused jojoba (an 8-week cold maceration), avocado and argan oils — lipids that replenish what a depleted barrier is missing, so your skin can hold its own moisture again. The HydraShield Serum pairs dual-weight hyaluronic acid with niacinamide and botanical actives to hydrate at multiple depths and reduce water loss over time. Layered together — water-based first, oil-based second — they do what a single moisturiser can't: hydrate, then help hold it there.

See the dry-skin ritual →

Real results

What rebuilding the barrier looks like

Most skin needs 4–8 weeks of consistent use — barrier recovery is gradual by nature, not overnight.

Luna Repair Body Oil

Luna Repair Body Oil

Eczema-prone skin, 6 weeks consistent use.

Oily Skin Power Serum

Oily Skin Power Serum

Oily, congested skin — before and after.

Toner Serum Hybrid

Toner Serum Hybrid

Texture and tone after 4 weeks.

Customer results

From the homeApothec community

Great for daily use - spa like

HomeApothec Body Oil is a must try! The scent is so therapeutic, heavenly, subtle yet luxurious. Perfect for dry skin. Great for daily use or massage, with nourishing oils that keep skin glowing. A must-try for a spa-like treat! I am using it every night 🤩 It couples well with the Dry Skin Serum very well for facial use. It keeps my face bright and radiant. I even feel more refresh in the next morning!

BL

Ben L

Recovery Set

Fast calming

Love the relief balm. It is very calming and soothing. It helps me to be more relax especially on weekdays with lots of stress from work.

JH

Jia H

Relief Balm

Not sticky feeling

I've been using Home Apothecary's serums for a few months now, and wah, I really can see the difference! My skin is glowing and feels so much more hydrated. The Dry Skin Power Serum absorbs so nicely into my skin, no sticky feeling at all, just smooth and comfortable and smell good! I also apply the Hydra Shield Serum every morning before going to work at my fashion boutique. Since I'm in air-cond the whole day, this serum really helps to protect and lock in moisture. Really love the natural ingredients and how gentle it feels on my skin. Highly recommend to all ladies who want healthy, radiant skin!

NL

Ng L

HydraShield

Big pores worries

Their toner-serum hybrid is worth it and wonderful, my skin because me less oily, pores in my nose becomes smaller by days.... Really suggest this products to those with big nose pores😍😍😍😍😍

C

Chong

Toner Serum

Lightweight Oil Serum

I enjoy using their products especially the Dry Skin Serum which help with my sensitive skin .The oil is lightweight enough for daily use. The relief balm is good for cuts and eczema spots 💜

AS

Ai Shien

Dry Skin Serum

It's really helping my dry skin on my body patch. The oil makes my skin so supple and very acceptable for night time application.

S

Sally

Luna Night Body Oil
Tracy, founder of homeApothec

The founder

Why homeApothec exists

Tracy started homeApothec after her family's skin taught her what no skincare brand would say out loud: steroid creams work until they don't — and when they stop, skin is often worse than where it started.

She spent years moving from prescription to prescription before deciding that if the formula she needed didn't exist, she'd make it herself. Every product in this range is the answer she wishes she'd found sooner.

Read Tracy's story →

The formulation

The difference is in the wait

Most botanical extracts are made with heat. Heat is faster and cheaper, and it is also the most efficient way to destroy the delicate plant compounds that make a botanical worth using in the first place. homeApothec uses cold maceration instead — botanicals are submerged in a glycerite base and left to infuse for 8 weeks without heat or distillation. The process is slow by design. What emerges preserves the heat-sensitive compounds most botanicals lose: a more active, more concentrated formula — and one gentle enough for skin that can't afford any more aggravation.

How it works →
8-week botanical infusion process

Beyond the bottle

A balm for the families who need it most

Steroid-free skincare matters most to the people who can least afford to keep buying creams that stop working — including young mothers with eczema-prone children. For every Recovery Set sold, homeApothec sets aside a Relief Balm for a family who needs gentle, steroid-free care and can't easily reach it.

No campaign, no badge at checkout. Tracy handles each one personally, and shares the ones the families are comfortable showing.

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Questions

Questions we get asked often

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Chat with Tracy

Still not sure what your skin needs?

Message Tracy directly. She'll ask about your skin and tell you exactly where to start — no upselling, no guesswork.

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