Skincare shouldn't need a footnote
We make products with the smallest ingredient list that does the job — and we'll tell you exactly what's in them.
Boty started as a small kitchen experiment in Montréal in 2019 — a jar of propanediol, a gram scale, and the frustration of reading a "clean" brand's ingredient list that ran twenty-seven ingredients deep. We thought we could do less, and be honest about it.
Six years later we still formulate the same way. Every product starts with a question: what is the fewest number of ingredients that will deliver a measurable result? Our Pure C Serum is three ingredients. Our Jojoba Oil is one. When a formula needs more, it's because the chemistry asks for it — not because the label looks better with a rose petal extract on it.
How we formulate
Functional minimum
If an ingredient isn't pulling weight in the formula, it doesn't make it into the bottle. We'd rather ship a shorter list than pad it for marketing.
Honest labels
Every active is listed with its concentration. Fragrance or essential oils are flagged. pH and shelf-life are published on each product page.
Gentle by default
When a stronger and a gentler form of the same ingredient are both effective, we choose the gentler one — unless the whole point of the product is potency.
What we don't do
- —We don't test on animals and we never will. All Boty products are Leaping Bunny certified.
- —Most of the range is fragrance-free. A few products carry natural essential oils (orange peel, rose), and three products use a light parfum where the formula needs it. Whichever it is, it's disclosed on the label and the PDP — and we publish a fragrance-free filter in the shop.
- —We don't ghost retinol, BHAs, or AHAs. Potent actives work — we just pair them with clear usage instructions and pregnancy/patch-test flags so you can make an informed call.
- —We don't claim skincare will change your life. It might change your skin. That's enough.
Sustainability
Every Boty bottle is post-consumer recycled glass or PCR-PET. Droppers and pumps are recyclable separately at TerraCycle drop-off points; we publish a free prepaid label on our Care portal for US and Canadian customers returning five or more empties.
We formulate in small batches of 500–2,000 units and publish a manufacture date on every bottle rather than a generic expiry. This means we occasionally run out of things. We'd rather do that than overstock a product that degrades on a warehouse shelf.
Shipping is carbon-offset through a verified forestry project in British Columbia. Boxes are FSC-certified recycled corrugate; the crinkle paper is compostable.
Where we're based
We formulate in Montréal, Québec. Production happens at our own facility and at a small group of audited partner labs in the United States and France, chosen for the equipment a given formula needs — cold-press for oils, low-shear emulsion for our barrier creams, regulated SPF lines for our sunscreens. A few ingredients have their own home: rose hydrosol from Bulgaria, sugarcane-derived squalane from Chile, manuka extract from New Zealand. Country of manufacture is listed on every product page.