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I make plant medicine the way it was made for me.

Nadine Smiley, founder of Arani Botanicals
Nadine Smiley · Founder

My name is Nadine. I make plant medicine by hand, in small batches, from traditions older than any brand. Arani is where that inheritance becomes something I can hand to you — bottled, balmed, brewed, and offered with the same care it was given to me.

Where it begins

I come from people who knew the plants — hands that crushed leaves, steeped roots, and passed the knowing down across the Caribbean, across water, across generations. At the center of everything I make is the mother of the waters, of the moon and the tides. She is the rhythm this whole brand moves to.

What I carry

My lineage is Afro-Caribbean and Taíno, and the medicine lives in both. I trained as an herbalist and a holistic practitioner, but the oldest lessons came from home. What I learned, I couldn't keep to myself — so I built the Arani Naturopathic Institute to teach it, and these botanicals to share it.

Made by hand

Nothing here is mass-produced. Every oil, balm, tea, and tincture is made by my hands, in small batches, with botanicals chosen for what they've traditionally been used to do. Nothing rushed. Nothing borrowed without honor. Just plant medicine, made the old way.

“I didn't invent this medicine. I inherited it.”

Everything here is made with intention — offered to you the way it was offered to me.

Board-Certified Holistic Practitioner· Herbalist· Iridologist· Gut Health Specialist· Founder, Arani Naturopathic Institute

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