Militza Maury shared their story and experiences with us recently and you can find our conversation below.
Hi Militza, thank you so much for joining us today. We’re thrilled to learn more about your journey, values and what you are currently working on. Let’s start with an ice breaker: What are you most proud of building — that nobody sees?
What I’m building right now, is a work in progress and not yet visible. I’m focused on rebuilding my herbal skincare education site to make it even more individualized to readers, not just a collection of recipes, but a place where people can learn how to create skincare and selfcare practices perfectly suited for their own preferences and their needs.
It’s the kind of resource I wish I’d had when I started: simple, practical, and deeply personal. I want people to feel like they’re not just following instructions, but actually learning how to create something that they’ll love and use every day.
Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
I teach people to make bath-and-beauty products, both for personal use and for professional practice. I’ve been making and teaching about herbal skincare for over 10 years – and I’m so driven to continue sharing the joy of this beautiful craft!
Through my own journey I’ve learned that skincare can be more than superficial.
It can be deeply transformative – especially when you make it yourself. You’re able to connect with your own body, tune into your needs, and use the natural elements around you to create your own wellbeing.
Great, so let’s dive into your journey a bit more. What’s a moment that really shaped how you see the world?
I grew up with a mom who took pride in cooking from scratch. It taught me the value of simple ingredients, homemade foods and the satisfaction of making it yourself.
I carried that into my own kitchen, and loved learning new recipes… but I never considered making my own skincare until I became a mother.
There was this moment where I was standing in the babycare section of a health food store – and there was this beautiful product, an all-natural baby bath tea that I wanted to buy – but couldn’t afford…
I looked at the ingredients and I realized that they were real food ingredients: rolled oats, dried lavender, and cocoa butter. That’s it! And suddenly it just hit me, I thought – why can’t I just make this myself?
Even though I had no idea what I was doing, I gathered the ingredients and went into my kitchen. I tore open a lavender tea bag, added in rolled oats, and shaved bits of cocoa butter. I had never done this before, but it felt familiar, like making food from scratch.
That night, I filled my baby’s bath, dropped in my homemade bath tea, and watched the warm water turn milky. My baby’s skin felt soft and smelled delicious. It was an incredible feeling realizing I could do this myself.
It set me on the path I’m on today – sharing the joy and skill of making herbal skincare, so anyone can create healthy self-care products that are simple, practical, and accessible
Was there ever a time you almost gave up?
As soon as I started sharing my recipes, things grew quickly. There was a lot of curiosity and people interested in learning, and I threw myself into this cycle of creating content and sharing.
The creative part came naturally to me, but the social connection part not so much. I wasn’t used to putting myself out there and anytime I felt any kind of resistance in my body… I would just try to ignore it.
At first, that resistance felt like nerves or stress, the kind of things we’re taught to push through. But over time it became physical.
My body shut down. I developed writer’s block, crippling “stage” fright. I couldn’t write, teach or get myself to deliver the work I loved. The passion was still there, but I completely closed-up.
I know now what I experienced was burnout. At the time, I thought I wasn’t cut out – and needed to quit.
I found myself retreating, spending more hours alone outside in my garden – and that’s where I noticed something…
Gardeners often say, “right plant, right place.” It’s an understanding that every plant has its own needs. A plant that thrives in one environment may completely struggle in another. People are similar in this way too… but, in the garden, you don’t try to force a plant into the wrong conditions, or expect it to thrive where its not meant to -you learn to understand what it needs, and then you provide that.
One day it hit me that I wasn’t doing the same for myself. In my own business – I was trying to grow in the wrong conditions – pushing myself to work in ways that didn’t suit my own nature.
I’m still working on this… learning what kind of “plant” I am. I’m trying to embrace myself more, letting go of any expectations to be anything different and focusing on understanding how I flourish.
One way I’m doing this is by practicing more of the herbal selfcare that I’ve spent so long teaching others how to create. I’ve been making a lot of herbal infused oils and doing daily body oiling to connect with my body and help to regulate my nervous system. I’m doing a lot of self-care showers! And falling in love again with the medicine of nature and beauty that herbal skin care provides.
I’m grateful that I have these tools of making skincare as a self-care practice. It’s helped me so much, and has fortified my drive to get back out there and continue sharing them with others.
I think our readers would appreciate hearing more about your values and what you think matters in life and career, etc. So our next question is along those lines. How do you differentiate between fads and real foundational shifts?
In the beauty and wellness world, there’s always a “new ingredient” that’s supposed to be better than anything else. The one herb or superfood you didn’t know you needed.
I love trying new things. Novelty can be fun and inspiring, but before you know it, there’s a new “next big thing” and it becomes a never ending cycle… that feels like chasing.
When your bathroom and kitchen cabinets are filled with products, and superfood powders, and oils and things that you don’t even really use – those are the fads.
A real foundational shift happens when you tune away from what everyone else is touting as the “next best thing”…. and instead tune into your own body, your own nature. Notice what your needs are, what makes you feel balanced.
When you understand yourself, you don’t get pulled into whatever’s trending…. you can choose what really supports you.
For me, it’s ginger: I love adding ginger to my food, drinking it as tea. I infuse it into oil and massage it over my body in the evenings, because I tend to run cold and get tense, and ginger makes me feel warm and relaxed.
It’s also rolled-oats: I crave warm oatmeal in the winter, but I love using it every day as a facial cleanser. I grind it into flour, and mix it with rice flour and coconut milk powder to make a creamy blend… because I tend to get dry and easily inflamed, and oats make me feel more comfortable in my own skin.
The everyday staples might not be as exciting as the “next big thing,” but they’re what build the strongest foundation.
Okay, so before we go, let’s tackle one more area. What is the story you hope people tell about you when you’re gone?
I hope I’m remembered as someone who felt and shared the awe, wonder, and value of the natural world. That I showed how self-care can be simple and creative – and that herbal skincare is one beautiful way to experience this.
Many of the recipes I share are old remedies, carried through generations before us. I love to imagine we’re all connected by a single thread, passing along and keeping herbal knowledge alive.
Each time you plant seeds, harvest herbs, gather ingredients, or create remedies – and each time you share your joy for the natural world -you join that age-old lineage of plants and people, co-creating a beautiful world together.
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