speak to me in my mother tongue: touch🤲🤲🏼🤲🏽

Long before we could speak—even before we understood language or memory—we knew touch. It is one of our oldest forms of care. 

Hippocrates wrote about the therapeutic benefits of “anatripsis”—rubbing or massage. Ancient Egyptian paintings depict healers massaging hands and feet. 

Across cultures daily self-massage was paired with nourishing botanical oils and ointments to reinforce the body’s functions and intelligence.

Our ancestors understood what science would later explain: touch helps infants thrive, contributes to physiological regulation, and communicates the most elemental human message—you are being cared for.

Historically, moisturizing the body wasn’t separated from healthcare or community. Touch was woven into rituals of cleansing, healing, comfort and connection.

Today almond, castor and moringa oils are regarded as simple carrier oils, but ancient cultures literally anointed kings with them.

These nutrient-dense botanical oils were prized necessities in cultures for whom body skincare was a sacred, daily ritual of health, protection, and status.

In creating eu2be, it’s been my intention to lead our way back to this skin health mindset by formulating skincare treasures with nutrient-rich, culturally prized oils.

Let’s collectively make the move to shift awareness from how the body looks to how it feels. 

Moving beyond a face-only routine to moisturizing the whole body activates a somatic experience that speaks our mother tongue between skin, brain and our nervous system.

Although beauty culture has heavily influenced how we look at our bodies, touch implores us to actually experience or inhabit them. 

Our bodies carry us through everything, all of our life experiences. Touch is the soul’s medium, accessing where words are insufficient.

It’s the gentle hand of the church lady in the Black church who places her reassuringly palm on a back or gently holds your hand.

These aren’t grand gestures but they’re the ones the body recognizes as care.

Remember this one true thing—grace is always at hand.