The climate wrote the formula before anyone else did
Humidity above 75 percent for eight months of the year changes what a face needs. In coastal Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and coastal Andhra Pradesh, the skin is perpetually primed, pores open, sebum active, the surface already damp before any product touches it. Heavy creams and oil-rich unguents that work beautifully in the dry winters of Delhi or Lucknow would suffocate skin in Chennai in June. South Indian skincare started with that constraint and never left it.
