Nine organic teas — 5 flavored black and 4 herbal wellness blends — are live in the US Foods catalog, available to foodservice operators nationwide.
For restaurants, hotels, spas, healthcare, and hospitality teams: you can now bring an organic, Ayurvedic-rooted tea line onto your beverage program and order it directly through US Foods. APNs are below.
For fellow founders and the wellness/CPG community: getting into a major distributor's catalog is a milestone for a brand at our stage, and a sign of where we're headed.
US Foods reps and operators — reach out and I'll get you everything you need. Buyers and retail partners, let's talk too.
DAKSHIN: Where Ancient Ritual Meets Modern Wellbeing
There is a moment, somewhere in the middle of a demanding life, when you realize that being busy is not the same as being well. For Vijay Shanker, the founder of Dakshin Wellness, that moment arrived after a long career in corporate technology consulting — years measured in deadlines, flights, and the quiet erosion of the small daily pleasures that make a person feel whole. He did what very few people allow themselves to do. He paused. And in that pause, he rediscovered something he had absorbed long before spreadsheets and strategy decks: the ancient wellness traditions of his upbringing, where caring for the body was not a luxury reserved for vacations, but a daily ritual woven into ordinary life.
Dakshin was born from that pause. Established in 2024 and based in Sunnyvale, California, the brand is an organic wellness company built on a single, almost rebellious idea: indulgence is essential. Not indulgence as excess, but indulgence as the deliberate act of treating your own wellbeing as something that matters. The name itself carries this intention. "Dakshin" comes from the Sanskrit word for "south," an ancient heritage that anchors every formulation — herbs and spices that have been trusted for thousands of years.
What We Do
Dakshin creates organic wellness products that turn everyday routines into restorative rituals. The brand spans two complementary worlds. On one side sits a thoughtfully curated line of organic teas — blends designed not merely to taste good, but to do something for the body, whether that is helping you wind down at night or settle a restless stomach. On the other sits a growing collection of body care: whipped body butters, essential oil roll-ons, and body scrubs, each crafted to deliver a sensory experience that feels closer to a spa than a shelf.
What ties it all together is the tagline that lives at the heart of the brand: "Making Moments Better." Dakshin is not asking anyone to overhaul their life. It is asking them to make a cup of tea, to take the three minutes, to massage in the body butter — to reclaim the small moments that, stacked together, become the texture of a healthier life.
A Range Built Around Ritual
The Dakshin product range is intentionally designed to follow the natural rhythm of a day, and increasingly, to function as a complete ritual system.
The tea collection is the soul of the brand — organic blends like Sleep Tea, Digest Tea, Detox Tea and Immunity Tea that meet you at different points in your day, offering a moment of calm, a moment of relief, a moment of reset.
The body care collection brings the same philosophy to the skin. The whipped body butters are rich, slow-absorbing, and deeply nourishing. The essential oil roll-ons, like the popular Sweet Dreams Roll-On, make aromatherapy portable. The body scrubs polish and renew without stripping. And the brand's newest evolution — a finalized three-phase ritual system of Morning Glow, Afternoon Shield, and Night Rejuvenate — gives the body care line a structured arc, each phase formulated with its own distinct botanicals so the products complement rather than compete.
An Invitation to Rejuvenate
The promise of Dakshin is not eternal youth in a jar. It is something more attainable and, frankly, more honest — the idea that your body can feel better, calmer, and more cared for, starting today, with rituals that fit into the life you already have. Rejuvenating your youth is less about turning back the clock and more about turning your attention inward, consistently, kindly.
Dakshin makes that easy. A cup of tea before bed. A few minutes with body butter after a shower. A roll-on tucked into a bag for the moments that ask too much of you. Small acts, repeated, that tell your body it is worth taking care of.
Because at Dakshin, we believe wellness was never meant to be a destination you arrive at exhausted. It was meant to be a series of better moments — and you deserve to start collecting them now.