The Nascenda Story
Nascenda was created to support women through their most profound seasons of change.
Pregnancy, postpartum, and motherhood place very different demands on the body. Skin stretches and reshapes. Hormones shift. Sensitivity changes. Your identity recalibrates. Yet most body care is designed to simply fix imperfections with little concern for your life phase.
Nascenda takes a different approach: three body oils, one specifically formulated for each chapter of the motherhood journey — pregnancy, postpartum, and the years after weaning.
Our Provenance
The Finest Mediterranean Botanicals
Every Nascenda oil is made from the finest plants and botanicals that have been grown and used across the Mediterranean basin for centuries. Every botanical oil and extract we use is certified organic, with full traceability and verified origin.
The oils are hand-blended in small batches on the island of Cyprus, our home in the heart of the Mediterranean. Small batches keep each blend fresh, and ensure the highest quality control in terms of what goes in each bottle. There are no synthetic ingredients and no artificial fragrance.
Three Chapters, One Arc of Becoming
Each oil is crafted to accompany you in the specific chapter of your story.
Nurture
A pure, essential-oil free blend designed to deeply nourish and protect the stretching skin during pregnancy.
Rebirth
An exquisite, breastfeeding-safe oil for the postpartum period, incorporating restorative botanicals such as helichrysum and neroli.
Affirm
An invigorating blend for the years after weaning, leaving the skin toned and luminous.
Meet the Creator
Meet the Founder
Iliyana Zheleva · Founder & Formulator
Before founding Nascenda, Iliyana Zheleva spent twenty years in finance, where every number had to reconcile and every decision had to withstand scrutiny.
She brings that same standard to Nascenda — sourcing ingredients carefully, insisting on exceptional quality and choosing botanicals for what they can meaningfully contribute to a formulation, rather than for their trendiness.
Alongside her qualification as an accountant, Iliyana trained as a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner. The two disciplines rarely meet, but their intersection defines Nascenda: the rigour to question every ingredient on one hand, and an understanding of the body as a connected whole on the other.
The idea for Nascenda emerged during her own pregnancy and the months that followed. Her body was changing constantly, yet much of the body care available to her seemed to stop at pregnancy, with little thought given to what came next.
“The body’s needs are not static, and care should evolve alongside them.”
That became the starting point for Nascenda.
At the heart of the brand is a simple belief: pregnancy and motherhood ask an extraordinary amount of a woman. The care offered to her should recognise that — and rise to meet it.