After years of color treatments and heat damage, my hair was broken and thin. Then pregnancy and postpartum took what was left. I tried everything the beauty industry offered—products that promised miracles but delivered nothing. Just more buildup, more breakage, more money wasted on empty claims.

I was done waiting for someone else to solve this. So I started researching. I learned that hair, like the body, needs real nourishment to heal—not surface-level fixes. I began mixing plant-based oils and botanicals in my own kitchen, creating formulas designed to feed my scalp and strands the way good food feeds the body.

Slowly, my hair started coming back. Not overnight, but genuinely—from the root, growing in stronger and thicker than it had been in years.

That kitchen experiment ultimately became Ra Beauty.

Erin Patten Founder, Ra Beauty