One morning in 2009, Vicky Tsai woke up and said, “I choose happiness.” A decade of working in corporate America had left her disillusioned, and suffering from acute dermatitis that required daily steroids and antibiotics. On a trip to Asia, she unexpectedly found herself in Kyoto, where she encountered a culture of harmony, beauty, and well-being that healed her from skin to soul. Months from becoming a mother, Vicky studied the natural Japanese ingredients and timeless rituals that transformed her skin. Alongside a team of scientists, geisha, and cultural advisors, from Kyoto to San Francisco, she began a learning journey that continues to this day. Tatcha is a celebration of the wisdom and wonders learned along the way.
Our promise is to help bring you harmony from skin to soul. The skin is a wondrous organ that carries you through life. We're concious of how we depict and talk about skin, honoring its dynamism as an organ, without perpetuating unhealthy beauty standards. We're phasing out the use of “normal” as a skin type because it implies that the natural condition of skin is somehow abnormal. We are also phasing out “anti-aging,” as a term because we believe that aging is a gift, and our formulas are crafted to support healthy aging. And finally, we’re making an even deeper commitment to portray skin as it really is, celebrating skin at every age, in every shade of beautiful.
Believing that beauty begins in the heart and the mind, we are invested in making quality education accessible to all. In 2014, we created the Beautiful Faces, Beautiful Futures fund to keep girls in school to reach their potential through Room to Read’s Girls’ Education Program, and to bring diverse books to underserved communities in the United States through Room to Read’s U.S. literacy initiative by the end of 2021. To date, our support has provided 6M days of school for Girls’ Education Program students and will soon support the printing and distribution of 70,000 diverse books in the Bay Area with the U.S. literacy initiative. Visit Website
