They told us our skin needed correction. They sold us forgetfulness in glass bottles. But someone remembered before we did.
There are places where the earth still sings.
Not in laboratories.
Not in labels.
Not in an industry that promised perfection and delivered amnesia.
But in roots covered in mud.
In hands mixing bark, flowers, and sap without instructions.
In bodies that never forgot that skin and earth are the same.
Mexico is one of those places.
Here, herbalism is not a trend; it is lineage.
Plants are not a passing fad; they are resistance.
Beauty is not correction; it is memory. And someone listened to that memory before anyone else. Not from a marketing strategy.
Not from the comfort of an office.
But with feet buried in the earth.
Maria Violante didn’t create a brand. She opened a portal.
Remedios del Bosque is not a business. It is the translation of a language we thought was lost.
Her formulas do not seek to correct.
They seek to remember.
Each extract is an echo of what women have always known.
Each blend is a pact with the earth.
Each drop is a whisper of what we were never meant to forget.
This is not a text about cosmetics.
This text is a fracture in history.
And the question is not whether the world is ready to listen to the forest.
The question is: are we?
The forest does not answer with words. But there are those who know how to listen. It is not learned in books. It is not understood through theory. It is something older, deeper, more visceral. María Violante does not answer as someone who explains, but as someone who remembers. Each question is a thread that draws us closer to something greater. Each answer is an echo of the forest.
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW:
THE NAME OF THE FOREST WE FORGOT
TTT: Every great story begins with a moment that changes everything. What is your most vivid memory of nature—the one that planted in you this vision of beauty and care?
MV: I remember a foggy day in Mexico’s Sierra Sur. The smell of damp earth, moisture trapped in the leaves, the silence of the mountains thick with invisible whispers. I was at the house of a midwife, a woman who healed with plants. People came to her with faith. And she had faith in the plants. But the most surprising thing wasn’t that. It was that the plants had faith in us. That’s when I understood.
“We don’t stand on the earth. WE ARE the earth”. From that day on, I knew my work wasn’t about selling products. It was about translating the voice of the forest.
BETWEEN CHAOS AND HARMONY
TTT: The forest does not ask permission to grow; it breaks through the earth, chaotic but full of purpose. How does this lesson from nature reflect in who you are and what you create?
MV: The forest does not try to be beautiful. It tries to be eternal. It does not apologize for growing twisted, for moving without permission, for taking up the space that belongs to it. That’s how skin should be.
But they taught us to see it as a mistake. They told us we had to smooth it, even it out, reduce it to a lab-created standard. They made us forget that every line, every mark, every open pore is history. It is proof of life.
THE BEAUTY THAT HEALS
TTT: Your products are not just for the skin; they are for the soul. What lesson about care and healing have you learned from working with the earth and the communities around you?
MV: Plants are here to guide us on a journey of healing and recognition. Creating products that remind us we are nature is part of Remedios del Bosque’s mission. The health of the land and the health of people are completely connected; when we heal the earth, when we regenerate it, we are taking care of ourselves and future generations.
THE CRACK WHERE LIGHT ENTERS
TTT: Nature teaches us that after every storm, the soil blooms stronger. What has been your hardest storm, and how did it help redefine beauty and your purpose?
MV: 2024 was a crack. Everything I thought was solid broke apart. But in that opening, something new entered, something I had never seen before.
“when we heal the earth, when we regenerate it, we are taking care of ourselves and future generations.”
THE POWER OF WOMEN WHO LIFT EACH OTHER UP
TTT: The women you work with don’t just grow plants; they cultivate stories, strength, and community. What have they taught you about beauty and resilience?
MV: The women I work with are not trying to outdo one another. They lift each other up. And in that unity, there is true medicine. We were made to believe that knowledge is private property. That it only has value if it is patented, if it has a barcode. That plants cannot be medicine unless they come in a laboratory bottle.
But the truth is this: THE FOREST CANNOT BE PATENTED.
WATER CANNOT BE COPYRIGHTED.
THE SUN CANNOT BE REGISTERED AS A BRAND.
Since the world began, plants have healed the skin. Since the world began, women have passed down this knowledge. What we do at Remedios del Bosque is not innovation.
It is memory.
THE LAST SECRET OF THE FOREST
TTT: If the forest could send us a message about beauty, love, and care, what do you think it would say, and how do you reflect that in what you do?
MV: It would remind us that we were never separate from it. That skin and earth are the same. That what we do to one, we do to the other.
TTT: This is not just a brand.
MV: No. This is a return.
