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d.r. harris milk of roses

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A London apothecary's rose-and-almond moisturising lotion. The house has been in continuous operation since 1790.

D.R. Harris opened on St James's Street in London in 1790 — five years before the Treaty of Paris, ninety-five years before the Eiffel Tower, and has not closed since. Two hundred and thirty-six years of toiletries made the same careful way through every regime change. The Milk of Roses is one of the oldest formulations in their line.

It is what its name describes: a milk-light moisturising lotion built around rose and sweet almond oil, intended for face and body, with the slightly old-fashioned restraint of an apothecary that has not added an ingredient just because the market wanted one. The bottle is glass. The fragrance is rose and almond and not much else.

Most heritage brands are recent acquisitions in old packaging. D.R. Harris is the actual continuous thread.

Every purchase funds one sauna session for one cancer patient. The lotion is a small daily ritual; the sauna session is a different one. Both are restraint as the form of care.

object№501

categorybeauty

makerDuchess

listedMay 5, 2026

edition1 piece

we don't reorder. when it's gone it's gone gone.