Meet Coco, Reclamation Organics Founder
Meet Coco
Founder & Formulator, since 2016
Formulated by Coco since 2016 · 6,000+ customers · pH tested every batch · 30-day satisfaction guarantee
Hello, I'm Coco.
I'm a wife, mother, bonus mom, lifelong ingredient researcher, and the founder and formulator behind Reclamation Organics. I have formulated every product we make, and I still answer your messages myself.
The beginning: a photo from the Cocos Organics years.
It started with a tooth polish
In 2016, the first thing many of you bought from me was a tooth polish made of charcoal, clay and coconut oil. It was simple, it worked, and some of the people who ordered it that first year are still with me ten years later.
Looking back, that tooth polish held the idea behind everything I've made since. Your body has living surfaces that protect it: the enamel and microbiome of your mouth, the acid mantle and lipid layers of your skin. They depend on minerals, the right pH and a healthy balance of microbes. When you feed those surfaces instead of stripping them, they do remarkable work on their own.
2018: the year pH changed everything
By 2018 I was deep in research on the skin barrier and the acid mantle, and learning how much skin depends on staying slightly acidic changed the way I understood skin entirely.
That year I made the first version of what became The Hydration Mist: filtered water, hydrosols, rice and apple cider vinegar. Today it's made with mineral-rich spring water, five hydrosols, components of skin's natural moisturizing factor and raw vinegars with the mother, and we test the pH of every batch. It's the longest-standing formula in our line, and it's still where I tell everyone to begin.
A different way of thinking about skin
I've never been interested in creating products because an ingredient became popular or a trend appeared online. I begin with the biology of healthy skin: the acid mantle, the microbiome, natural moisturizing factor, protective lipids.
And I look to nature for how protection works. The bloom on a plum. The wax of a flower petal. The velvety surface of a peach.
The more I learned, the more I realized healthy skin already knows what to do when it's properly supported. That's why our routine works in layers, the same way skin does: cleanse, hydrate, enhance, lipid.
Standards I won't trade
Over the years I've been asked many times to cut costs. Switch to cheaper jars. Use the bulk oils most of the industry buys. I compared samples, and the color, aroma and freshness weren't close, so we kept our single-farm oils and our Miron violet glass, even though they cost two to three times more.
In 2020 I launched my original skin barrier line. In 2023 I pulled most of it and reformulated, because I knew it could be even better. So many of you stayed and tried the new formulas with me, and that trust is something I'll never take for granted.
Today our products are made in small batches alongside a boutique manufacturing partner. Every formula is still personally developed, refined and overseen by me, and we ship the same day you order.
Ten years of the same people
More than 6,000 of you have ordered from me since 2016. Some found me at a farmers market, some through a friend, one at a gifting suite in LA who tracked me down years later to reorder a lip balm she never forgot. Some of you emailed for months during a stockout. Some of you bought the whole new line the week we relaunched.
The messages I treasure most are the ones that say water doesn't sting anymore, or that someone feels comfortable in her skin for the first time in years.
My promise to you
Every product is backed by our 30-day satisfaction guarantee. If you're not sure where to start, or something isn't right for your skin, message me. I read every one.
Life outside the formulas
My days are full and loud, in the best way. My five-year-old son does all of life with me. We homeschool, and he's usually playing nearby or climbing on me while I work. I'm also a bonus mom to two stepdaughters.
My husband works from home too, and he has been my biggest champion. When a business partnership ended, he helped secure the funding that let us relaunch Reclamation.
Our home is a little farm of its own, tucked in a quiet city neighborhood: ducks, a chicken, two bunnies, two dogs and two cats, plus the dogs we care for through Rover. There's rarely a quiet cup of tea, but there's always something to tend, and much of what I notice in nature still finds its way into my formulas.
Every Saturday you'll find us at the farmers market. For the last two years, all of our produce has come from local markets instead of grocery stores, and that habit shapes how I think about sourcing, too.
I had horses from the time I was eight until I was twenty-seven. Now my stepdaughter rides, and we're getting ready to adopt wild mustangs. And when I find a quiet minute, I'm reading, which usually means researching.
Thank you for being here, whether you've been with me since the tooth polish or you're just finding us now.
With gratitude,
Coco