Maya Chia’s primary goal as a brand: to be grounded (not in marketing) but in high-performance ingredients, science and results. We are not interested in fly-by-night ingredients or the latest in trends that may not yield the results we’re looking for. We are excited because our ingredients create high-performance products that work, that get results… and in many cases, rather quickly. In all of our formulations, we work hard to create a proprietary synergistic combination of the best ingredients that will deliver on the promise of the particular product and what it’s supposed to do.

Chia seeds are the richest known plant source of omega fatty acids, antioxidants and essential minerals:all factors that play a vital role for the health of your skin. The Nutritional Science Research Institute tested the nutritional value of chia seed and said it contains “the highest amount of antioxidants we have ever measured” and cited chia as one of the most powerful whole food antioxidants we know. Further, in a study published in the Annals of Dermatology, chia oil was clinically proven to significantly increase skin hydration, reduce trans-epidermal water loss and increase skin barrier function.

We own the rights to a patented supercritical process to extract chia seed. In certain cases, as is the case with chia seeds, the way you extract the oil from the plant makes all the difference for the purity, longevity and efficacy of the oil. We worked with scientists to license the patent for supercritical extraction of chia seed oil for topical usage in the United States.