We hoped this winter might just never come. But instead, it was just late and made a dramatic entrance—a record-breaking 26-ish inches of snow here in NYC. For us, the cold brings up two issues: how to care for and nurture our skin as the cold dehydrates it, and how to best pamper when you’re stuck indoors!

If you haven’t already heard, we’re making our own sheet masks!

Today we launched The Lotus, our newest curation, which is formulated around hero ingredient—you guessed it—the white lotus flower. You can read more about the fabulous products here, and we’ll be discussing more dets on our blog soon! We wanted to get the scoop on the origins of this beautiful, natural line which is purely harvested from the Lotus Pond at the Beophwa Temple where founder Eugene Oh, actually grew up. One thing we love about the line is its rich background. Oh worked on this line with her mother, artist Kang Myung Soon whose beautiful work illustrates the company’s packaging.

Last fall, I was sleeping two, maybe three hours a night for almost a month. I was in over my head to meet a hard deadline of having to open our brick-and-mortar store before Black Friday on top of juggling everything else to run Peach & Lily. I had somehow gone from elated and excited to see a dream come true to stressed, even panicked, and eventually, listless as I went through the motions of each day to cross things off my to-do list without really being present.