Meet Shilpika Devaiah
Shilpika
Devaiah
More than a decade of Ayurveda practice with women around the world, and one simple wish: to make something she, her friends, and her family could use without a second thought.
I have spent more than ten years working with women. In India, in New York, in Ohio, and with clients around the world who found me online. Different ages, different cultures, very different lives. And yet when the conversation turned to intimate care, it was always the same conversation. Not because anything was wrong with these women. Because so little of what was sold to them made any sense.
I would ask what they were using. They would show me a bottle. And when we read the label together, most of it was a mystery. Ingredients nobody could pronounce. The word “fragrance” quietly standing in for twenty things that were never named. Claims on the front with nothing behind them. These were thoughtful women, careful about what they ate and what they put on their faces, and somehow this part of their care had been handed over to whoever shouted loudest on the shelf.
Ayurveda taught me that the body is not divided into parts that matter and parts that do not. What touches your skin matters, and the skin of the intimate area is among the most delicate you have. It also taught me that a woman’s needs are not fixed. What suits you in your twenties is not what suits you after forty-five, and a product that pretends otherwise was never really made for you.
Something I would be glad for my own family to use. My friends. My mother. The women who trust me with their questions. Two formulas, one for each stage of life, built from botanicals I trained in for five years and have worked with for more than ten. Every ingredient written in full on the carton, in the order it goes in. Every claim tested by a laboratory that had no reason to tell me what I wanted to hear.
I am not going to promise you miracles. I am going to promise you something I think matters more. You will know exactly what you are using. It was made by a woman who understands what your body goes through, at every age. And nothing is on the label because it sounds nice.
You deserve to be as informed about this part of your care as you are about everything else. That is where we begin.
From the Western Ghats to a clinic in Ohio.
Ayurveda is a five-year medical degree in India. The training below is the reason the word “doctor” on this page is earned, not borrowed.
Medical school
Bachelor of Ayurveda, Medicine and Surgery, a five-year program integrating classical Ayurveda with modern medical science.
Observership
Clinical observation at one of Kerala’s oldest Ayurvedic institutions, established in 1884.
House surgeon
A year of intensive clinical work in diagnosis, treatment, and patient care, following a rural internship in Gonikoppa.
New York
Ayurveda Doctor at an Ayurveda practice in the city, working with women from every background and walk of life.
Her own practice
Founded a clinic in Lakewood, Ohio, which grew into Ayurveda Wellness House, serving women in person and nationwide.
Ayurveda Sutra
More than a decade of listening to women, distilled into two formulas. Made for women by a woman who understands them, disclosed in full, and tested by laboratories she did not employ.
What stands behind the name.
Each of these is verifiable with the issuing body. We list them not to impress, but because you are entitled to know who formulated what you use on your body.
Bachelor of Ayurveda, Medicine and Surgery
Five-year medical degree, 2010 to 2015, combining classical Ayurvedic pharmacology and diagnostics with modern anatomy, physiology, and pathology.
Registered Ayurvedic Doctor
Professional registration for Ayurvedic physicians practising in North America. Credential RAD-1728-18, issued 2018.
Certified Ayurvedic Doctor
Certification at the highest professional tier recognised by the United States’ national Ayurvedic body, issued 2019.
Diploma in Panchakarma
Specialist training in Ayurveda’s classical cleansing and restorative therapies.
Registered Yoga Teacher, 200 hours
Hatha yoga teacher training at one of India’s most established ashrams.
Certified Ayurveda Yoga Therapist
Integration of yoga therapy with Ayurvedic constitutional assessment, bringing movement and breath into a woman’s care.
The intimate care aisle offered women a hundred products and almost no honesty.
Harsh surfactants. Synthetic fragrance. Language designed to make a woman feel unclean. And underneath it all, the assumption that one bottle should serve every woman at every age. Ayurveda Sutra was built on three refusals.
Honor the tradition.
Ayurveda holds a deeply considered understanding of women, balance, and the changing seasons of a life. The botanicals in these formulas come from that pharmacopoeia, chosen by someone trained in it.
Validate with science.
Respect for tradition is not a substitute for evidence. Anything used on intimate skin must meet rigorous contemporary standards, so both formulas were tested by independent laboratories and the reports were signed.
Educate without fear.
Women deserve honest, respectful information about their own bodies. No euphemisms, no shame, no marketing engineered to sell a solution to a problem that was invented for the purpose.
A woman’s needs are not static. Her care should not be either.
This is the one idea the whole company rests on. A body at twenty-eight and a body at fifty-two are not the same body, and Ayurveda has always said so. Kumari and Naari share a base of rose water and gentle plant-derived cleansers. What sits around that base is chosen for the stage of life it is meant to serve.
Read what was tested, and howNamed for the aloe plant in Ayurveda. Formulated for the reproductive years, with triphala, turmeric, sandalwood, nettle, and a trace of tea tree.
See what is inside Over 45NaariThe Sanskrit word for woman. Formulated for perimenopause and beyond, with saffron, daruharidra, padmaka, and red sandalwood.
See what is insideMy clients taught me what they needed. They deserved better than what was available. So we made it, and then we had it tested.
Care should reach further than the products we make.
Too many girls learn about their own bodies from silence. Too many women, from advertising. As Ayurveda Sutra grows, we intend to put part of what we earn behind the people already doing the quiet, community-led work of changing that.
- Menstrual education for adolescent girls, delivered in their own language and culture
- Access to feminine hygiene resources where cost or stigma keeps them out of reach
- Culturally respectful wellness education for women, led by women in those communities
We will name our partners here once commitments are made, not before. That is the standard we hold ourselves to on the label, and it applies here too.
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