About Us

Divine Essences was born from a kitchen table, a grandmother’s hands, and a promise: to create honest, natural, beautiful products that actually care for the people who use them.

At the heart of that promise is Maria Quinn.

Maria’s story doesn’t start with branding or packaging or sales strategy. It starts in Teohuacán / San Lorenzo, Mexico, where she grew up surrounded by strong, practical women who believed that you take care of your people with what the earth gives you. Aloe for burns. Calendula for irritated skin. Oils and balms you make yourself, not because it’s trendy — because it’s what works.

As a teenager, Maria left home and crossed into the United States to build something better. She didn’t come with money. She didn’t come with a perfect plan. She came with faith and a  kind of courage that you only really understand if you’ve ever had to start your life from scratch in a country that doesn’t know your name yet.

She worked. She learned English. She found her way. She built a family. She built a home. She became “Mom” and then, years later, “Grandma.”

That part matters.

Because Maria isn’t a corporate founder with investors behind her. She’s a grandmother who raised a family here in America and is now building the thing she deserved all along: her own business, on her own terms.

Divine Essences is that dream finally being claimed.

Every balm, every soap block, every candle — it’s all made by hand in small batches, using real ingredients and traditional care. No shortcuts. No filler. No mystery chemicals you can’t pronounce. Just botanical oils, butters, minerals, and plant-based elements chosen for how they feel on real skin, not how they sound on a label.

For Maria, this is deeply personal.

She’s seen family deal with eczema, chronic dry skin, stress, and irritation from mass-produced products that promised “natural” but delivered burns, rashes, or nothing at all. She watched her loved ones buy “luxury” self-care that was mostly synthetic fragrance and marketing. She watched people — especially working mothers, brown women, elders — be ignored by the skincare industry unless they fit a certain box.

Her response was simple:
“If I can feel good with my kids and grandkids using it, I’ll make it available for everyone.”

Divine Essences is built on that voice.

It’s about dignity. It’s about cultural memory. It’s about keeping plant knowledge alive instead of letting it get flattened into buzzwords. It’s about creating something honest that her kids and grandkids can be proud of — not just because it looks pretty on a shelf, but because it was made with integrity.

Now, Maria is doing what so many of our mothers and grandmothers dreamed of but were never allowed to do: she is building something with her own name on it.

She is not just making products.
She is building a legacy.

And when you hold something from Divine Essences — a soothing balm, a calming mist, a hand-poured body bar — you’re not just buying skincare.

You’re holding a piece of her story:
Mexico to California.
Teenage girl to matriarch.
Employee to owner.
Caregiver to creator.

This isn’t a hobby.
This is the American dream, in every quality product we offer.

Welcome to Divine Essences.
From our hands to your skin.