Two people, a farm in Ciofu, and a habit of trying everything on ourselves first.
The Sun asks nothing of the Earth in return for its warmth and light.
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It began with yoga
First at a city gym, then deeper: other paths of yoga, a healthier way of living, and a habit of trying everything on ourselves before believing it. Our food changed, then the way we lived, and in the end the city no longer fit.
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The farm in Ciofu
We moved to the district where Vasile grew up, and later found a quiet place in Ciofu: an old forester’s farm, almost in ruins, in a village where only a few households remain. We bought it with the last of our savings and started restoring it — drilling the well, laying the water pipes, planting the garden, rebuilding the old houses. Today it is a hectare of land, a cow, an orchard and a big family.
We try to take from the land exactly what we need, and give back the rest as care: compost, trees planted, time spent on everything that feeds us.
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Made for ourselves first
Over the years we had become sensitive to many things in ordinary products, so we began making our own: soap with lye, balms, oil macerates from our herbs. Friends who came to see how we live asked to try them. Then their friends asked. We had not planned a business — people simply kept coming back and asking for more.
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Learned properly, then tested at home
Irina trained in natural cosmetic formulation through courses from several countries — exact doses, ingredients, reactions, process. We took that foundation and refined every recipe through our own testing, batch after batch, until we were happy to use it every day ourselves.
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Today
Every product still starts the same way: a request from someone who uses it, plants from our garden and the hills around it, and a small batch made by hand. RA Planet grew out of people’s questions and our own curiosity — and it is still growing that way.
We do only what brings well-being to people and to nature.