Whamisa

Founded 2010 by Ryan Park as a collaboration between chemists, botanists, dermatologists and fermentation experts. Owns Korea's first organic-certified cosmetics manufacturing facility and registered a Lactobacillus plantarum strain isolated from kimchi with the international germ bank — the first cosmetics-specific registration of a kimchi-derived probiotic globally. Waterless and synthetic-preservative-free since founding, predating both the 'waterless beauty' and 'clean beauty' vocabularies by a decade.