Katari cold-pressed black seed oil in a hand-blown glass amphora with cork

Dropper of Katari cold-pressed black seed oil over a hand-blown glass amphora with its cork

video of Black Seed Oil set in home with accessories

Water splashing on a hand-blown glass amphora of Katari Black Seed Oil, a pure cold-pressed source of thymoquinone (TQ), held by hands with henna art.

Hand holding Katari black seed oil in a hand-blown glass amphora at the pyramids of Giza

Katari founder Kate holding Katari black seed oil in King Tut's tomb, where black seed oil was found

Katari black seed oil pouring from a dropper into a hand-blown glass amphora

Katari black seed oil in a hand-blown glass amphora on ancient stone with scattered black seeds

Katari Black Seed Oil in two hand-blown glass amphoras with its retail box, a pure cold-pressed thymoquinone (TQ) source for skin clearing.

Katari black seed oil for blemish-prone skin

Black Seed Oil | Balancing Oil for Blemish-Prone Skin

Name: Black Seed Oil | Balancing Oil for Blemish-Prone Skin
Rating: 5.00 (22 reviews)

Ancient Egyptian black seed oil for calmer, clearer-looking skin

Calms blemishes

Breakouts look smaller and less red

Balances oil

Keeps shine in check

Soothes stressed skin

For reactive, unhappy patches

A little goes far

One or two drops at a time

Size: 1 oz

1 oz 4.0 oz

1 oz

Why You'll Love It

Single-ingredient Nothing added

Nigella sativa seed oil, cold-pressed from black seeds grown on small farms south of Aswan, in Egypt's far south.

The ingredient IS the product. Nothing added or taken away.

Raw, stable & preservative-free

Pressed without heat or water and air-shipped in small batches within days of pressing.

Its bold, herbal scent is never covered up. That's how you know nothing was refined out.

Artisan-crafted Directly sourced

Each Nigella flower forms a pod of about 100 tiny seeds. It takes about 500 flowers, or roughly 50,000 seeds, to make one 1 oz bottle.

The farms grow it the way they did in the time of the pharaohs.

Hand-blown glass No two alike

The glass is blown in Egypt, each bottle on its own, over fire. One has a thinner wall and sits warmer in your hand, another's neck leans slightly to one side, and a third kept an air bubble inside — someone's breath that never made it out, set in the glass for good. The one that reaches you exists nowhere else.

We fill and cork by hand, one bottle at a time. Glass and cork are inert: nothing moves from the container into the oil.

Nigella sativa seed oil, cold-pressed from black seeds grown on small farms south of Aswan, in Egypt's far south.

The ingredient IS the product. Nothing added or taken away.

Calms the look of a breakout

Press one drop onto a blemish over damp skin. Black seed's signature compound, thymoquinone, is why it has been a skin staple since the pharaohs. By morning, redness looks calmer.

~50,000

seeds in every
1 oz bottle

~1%

natural
thymoquinone

Let's start with the smell, I am obsessed.

Anna G.

Clearer-looking, more balanced skin

Use it where you need it, morning and night, for two weeks. Breakouts look fewer and calmer, and oily patches settle. Then go back to Hoba and Rubi Rosehip for every day.

A pre-wash scalp treatment

Massage a few drops into the scalp before washing to calm dryness and flaking.

Using Your Black Seed Oil

How to Use

Press 1–2 drops into clean, damp skin, focused where you need it.
Layer over Geran after cleansing with Hoba.

When to Use

When skin needs extra support. Once it's calm, return to your daily Hoba plus Rubi or Barie.

Watch Complete Tutorial

From the Source

Sourced from small farms in the south of Egypt, near Aswan.

Hands holding raw black cumin seeds (Nigella sativa) before cold-pressing

Cold-pressed oil flowing from the press at Amr's workshop in Cairo, Egypt

Katari founder Kate with Amr, the oil maker, on his farm in Egypt's Nile Delta, reviewing how the plants are grown

• artisan-crafted

• directly sourced

• glass, not plastic

• packed by hand

• raw, stable

& preservative-free

Kate checking the roses in the Tunisian rose garden where Katari Roseau is distilled

From the Founder

I take the long way. On purpose.

Since 2010 I've been chasing ingredients across the Mediterranean, one maker at a time. I've walked Amr's fields near Alexandria, watched Mohammed's glass glow in a Cairo workshop, and spent ten years searching before I found Amin, our flower-water distiller in Béja, Tunisia. And only years to find a perfect bergamot water.

None of this is the easy route. That's the point. Every bottle holds one ingredient from a family I know by name, carried home the long way, so when you receive your Katari package is a small treasure with a real story behind it.

~ Kate, founder & chief explorer

Meet the makers

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Gorgeous oils!

Gorgeous oils! Perfect packaging, great brand, lovely customer service!

Gorgeous oils!

Gorgeous oils! Perfect packaging, great brand, lovely customer service!

Magic in a bottle

I’ve been using Katari products for a while and all I can say is wow! This black seed oil I use in my routine during the day and night. It has helped heal and repair my skin so much. Not only does it heal but it has also played a role in making my skin so glowy. I have also seen an improvement in my skin with anti aging as well. Highly recommend

Magic in a bottle

I’ve been using Katari products for a while and all I can say is wow! This black seed oil I use in my routine during the day and night. It has helped heal and repair my skin so much. Not only does it heal but it has also played a role in making my skin so glowy. I have also seen an improvement in my skin with anti aging as well. Highly recommend

great!

Black Seed oh So good!

I want to first compliment the packaging, it is beautiful and inspiring. I have been using your black seed oil on my clients and I am loving the results. Skin is calm and vibrant, will definitely be ordering more!

Black Seed oh So good!

I want to first compliment the packaging, it is beautiful and inspiring. I have been using your black seed oil on my clients and I am loving the results. Skin is calm and vibrant, will definitely be ordering more!

Black seed oil

I’m excited to use this and make it a part of my consistent regime.

Black seed oil

I’m excited to use this and make it a part of my consistent regime.

Amazing<3

My Friend used to own a store and she sold Katari Beauty products and that is where I was introduced. I have been using them for several years now and I truly love them.

I have a good amount of sun damage on my face as well as dry skin and some redness. I started to use black seed oil and it has made a HUGE difference! (I read an article that in black seed oil history they claim that it "Heals everything except death!)

I also use the Hoba to wash my face and then put on the Black Seed Oil. I also LOVE the Granite (Pomegranate Seed Oil) and the RoseHíp Oil! Both of these are so yummy! I do alternate or start with my Black Seed and put the Granite or the RoseHíp on after.

I also had the opportunity to try the Roseau (Mediterranean Rose Toner) and the Géran (Geranium Moisturizing Flower Water). Thank you Kate<3
It really does make a huge difference in the way the oils go on and absorb. I will be adding these to my oils for sure.

I have not tried the other products yet but I do want to try one of the masks.

I love theses products & believe in their healing abilities. The lengths that they go to find the most amazing raw material and the handblown glass bottles (adorable) is not like anything I have seen before.

If you are reading this review because you are not sure if you want to purchase them or not...please do! You will not be disappointed in any way.

Thank you to everyone at Katari for amazing products and the thought that goes in to every little detail!