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A 60mL bottle that holds 3,500 years of Egyptian beauty ritual — and a single ingredient with no second name on the label.
The Plant
Cyperus Rotundus — known across North Africa and the Middle East as Nut Grass or Saad — is a flowering sedge that grows in warm, riverine soil. The Nile basin was, and remains, its natural home. Ancient Egyptian women didn't discover it; they domesticated it. Its tubers were pressed, infused, and macerated into oil for one of the earliest documented uses in human history: refining skin between hair removal sessions.
The Oil
Nefertari's Cyperus Rotundus Oil is 100% pure. There is no carrier diluted into the bottle. No fragrance. No preservative. The ingredient list reads exactly one line — and the brand insists on this because the tradition does.
The Single-Ingredient Promise
This matters more than it sounds. Most "hair reduction oils" on the market are blends — a small percentage of Cyperus stretched into a carrier base. Nefertari sells the Cyperus straight, and recommends Jojoba as a separate companion oil. The reason: you control the ratio. Your bikini area can stay pure; your legs can be cut 50/50 with Jojoba; your underarms can be a fine mist. One bottle, infinite ritual.
Why Nefertari Bottles It This Way
Because Egypt has bottled it this way for millennia. The brand's positioning isn't a marketing choice — it's a refusal to dilute a tradition that worked. Handcrafted in small batches in Egypt, the oil arrives the way it left the Nile basin: dense, golden, single-origin, and ready to be ritualised in your own hands.
