We travel to the Mediterranean to find extraordinary beauty ingredients and the people who know them best.
Travel with us to the source of ancient beauty.
Founder of Katari
Hi, I'm Kate.
It started with a question: where do you find beauty that has been trusted for thousands of years and is still made by hand?
Since 2010 I have looked for the answer across the Mediterranean, in olive groves, cactus fields and village workshops, with families who press, distill and blow glass the way their grandparents did.
Katari is how I bring their work home to you.
So I went looking.
to fields, farms and makers of
the ancient Mediterranean
and deep into remote villages of Tunisia, Egypt, France and Italy
to meet & to know
Exceptional makers
These families have perfected their crafts over generations. We travel to work with them directly, so every bottle carries their care, skill and tradition.
harvested from the Nile Delta
Meet Amr
Amr and his team cold-press nearly every Katari oil in their Cairo workshop. Visit his farm near Alexandria and you forget the noise of the city: every crop is tended like family.
a wabi-sabi UNESCO craft
Meet Smisha & Dalenda
A mother-daughter team whose raku-style pottery takes hours to make each piece, a craft found in only one village in Tunisia.
hand-blown in Cairo, Egypt
Meet Mohammed
In a Cairo workshop run by Lamyaa, who leads a whole team of glassmakers, Mohammed hand-blows most Katari glass: perfume bottles, jars, little hearts. Watching him work is mesmerizing.
ancient sustainable craft of olivewood
Meet Omar
Omar's family gives retired olive trees a second life as hand-carved spoons and tools. For every old tree, a new one is planted. It has always been this way.
a Ph.D. in physics, one love: Barie
Meet Tareq
Tareq pairs a scientist's precision with a wild-harvested ancient crop to make what we believe is the finest prickly pear seed oil in the world.
from the hills near Sbeitla, Tunisia
Meet Mohammed
Mohammed's family lives from their land, and fed us everything from it: eggs, almonds, peaches, honey. Their couscous was the best I have ever had.
from the rolling hills of Beja, Tunisia
Meet Wafa & Amin
With a Ph.D. in flower water distillation, Amin teaches villagers how to distill. It took us 10 years to find him, and his waters are the best we know.
Black seed oil was packed for a pharaoh's afterlife. Three thousand years later, Amr still presses it the slow way.
Pomegranates have grown around the Mediterranean since antiquity. We cold-press only the seeds, so the oil keeps its deep color and richness.
Roses bloom for just a few weeks each spring. Miss the harvest and you wait another year. Real beauty is not fast.
Black seed oil was packed for a pharaoh's afterlife. Three thousand years later, Amr still presses it the slow way.
Pomegranates have grown around the Mediterranean since antiquity. We cold-press only the seeds, so the oil keeps its deep color and richness.
Roses bloom for just a few weeks each spring. Miss the harvest and you wait another year. Real beauty is not fast.
Watch an Amatevi perfume bottle being hand-blown
real beauty is not fast
Weeks to make one bowl. A full year between rose harvests. Tons of cactus fruit for 66 lbs of seeds, pressed into just one quart of Barie.
Every bottle is shaped by hand in Mohammed's Cairo workshop, so no two are exactly alike.
less, but better
Katari Manifesto
Each ingredient you meet is crafted by extraordinary humans, filled by real hands, kept alive through thousands of miles of journey, done without shortcuts, the only way that matters to earn your trust.
timeless
Ancient ingredients, proven by time.
pure
From soils unspoiled by civilization.
elemental
Each product is one timeless ingredient.
From their hands to yours
Bring the Mediterranean home
Start with three bestsellers in amber travel glass: Hoba to cleanse, Roseau to tone, Rosehip to glow. Shipped to your door for $59.
Start with Your First Ritual, $59