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The founder
Ankit Agarwal
Founder, Cravista · Dubai
Ankit Agarwal has built businesses for twenty-five years. In 2004, with no medical background, he founded Perfect Vision Eye Hospital in Delhi NCR, named within a year as Bausch & Lomb's first Centre of Excellence in India. In 2010 he founded Perfect Wellness, a nutrition-and-yoga practice with five centres across Delhi NCR. He moved to Dubai in 2015, where he has lived for more than a decade.
Cravista is his return to wellness — a considered house making objects for the small rituals of an ordinary day. The free Cravista Library draws on the yoga and meditation programmes built in that earlier work.
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Dubai's Cravista launches in English and Arabic: candles of 100% coconut wax and pure essential oils.
DUBAI, UAE — Cravista, a Dubai-based considered-wellness brand, has opened its store in both English and Arabic at ae.cravista.com, with its brand home at cravista.com. Cravista makes a candle for each moment of the day, poured in 100% coconut wax and scented with 100% pure essential oils, with nothing synthetic.
The range follows the shape of a day. Morning pairs lemon, bergamot and peppermint. Grounding is built on Omani Boswellia sacra frankincense with cedarwood and Indonesian patchouli. Evening blends lavender, bergamot, cedarwood and geranium, and Night settles into Indonesian patchouli, lavender and cedarwood. Every batch of oil is GC-MS tested, the laboratory method that shows what an oil actually contains.
Alongside the candles, Cravista's Meditation Kit brings together a brass singing bowl with a wooden striker, handmade porcelain thumbstones, a lava-stone mala and a grounding oil. Each 220 g candle sits in a charcoal porcelain vessel designed to be kept after the candle is finished.
“Most scented candles are paraffin and fragrance oil,” said Ankit Agarwal, founder of Cravista. “We wanted a candle you could light every day in the room you breathe in, made from materials we can name in full. In the UAE, frankincense has been part of home life for centuries. Our Grounding candle is meant to sit beside that tradition, not replace it.”
Every Cravista purchase comes with free access to the Cravista Library, a collection of yoga sequences filmed in India and meditation chants, at cravista.com/the-library.
For Ramadan and Eid, Cravista offers gift sets including The Deep Calm (the Meditation Kit with the Grounding candle, AED 549) and The Wind-Down (Grounding and Night candles, AED 450). Candles start at AED 220. Delivery is free across the UAE, with cash on delivery available.
About Cravista
Cravista is a considered-wellness house based in Dubai, making daily-ritual objects from real, traceable materials. It was founded by Ankit Agarwal, an entrepreneur of 25 years who founded Perfect Wellness, a nutrition and yoga practice in Delhi NCR, and has lived in Dubai for more than a decade.
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