It started with a problem nobody was solving
My father, Ntanda, is a chemist. He grew up in Congo and came to Switzerland, and somewhere in that move he noticed something that has shaped everything since: the skin he had known his whole life behaved differently here.
European winters are dry. Central heating is drier still. Water in much of Switzerland is hard. Skin that had been comfortable under a humid equatorial climate became tight, rough and ashy — and the products available on the shelves were not formulated with that in mind. They were made for other skin, tested on other skin, and they did not do the job.
In 1986 he started making something that would. That was the beginning of O’TENTIKA.
