Search the Indian corporate register for “Daughter Earth” and you find nothing: there is no company of that name. The brand belongs to Eternite Elements Private Limited, CIN U74900TG2015PTC100163, incorporated on 11 August 2015 at Hyderabad, and registered first under a third name entirely. The two share nothing, which is why the search fails.
A small, genuinely independent Hyderabad brand: paid-up capital of ₹1,00,000 since 2015 and no funding round on record, so no investor exists to hold control. Eleven of its declarations name five manufacturers and four cosmetic licences — no AYUSH number among them. Its sunscreen is ₹19.90 a millilitre, roughly three times Minimalist and Plum on SPF 50.
Snapshot
- Brand founded
- 2018, by Prasanthy Gurugubelli, Hyderabad
- Company
- Eternite Elements Private Limited, CIN U74900TG2015PTC100163, 11 August 2015
- Ownership
- Independent — paid-up capital ₹1,00,000, no funding round on record
- Who makes it
- Five third-party manufacturers, eleven declarations
- Selling prices
- ₹795–₹5,000, most of it ₹875–₹1,295, checked 5 September 2026
How it started
Prasanthy Gurugubelli, an NIT Warangal and ISB alumnus, launched Daughter Earth in 2018 after her own experience of sensitive, acne-prone skin. She described it to Verve in December 2020 as combining Ayurveda with modern science, in small batches. The register classifies the company under NIC code 749, “business activities n.e.c.”
- Labhaam Online Solutions Private LimitedIncorporated 11 August 2015, RoC Hyderabad
- Eternite Elements Private LimitedThe same registration, renamed
- Daughter EarthThe brand, launched 2018 — no company carries this name
Two directors run it: Gurugubelli, on the board since incorporation, and Paidi Rao Vasudeva, appointed in October 2021. Paid-up capital has never moved off ₹1,00,000 — one lakh rupees — in eleven years, and an equity round would have moved it. Tracxn records no funding round either, so no outside investor exists here to hold control.
What they actually make
Daughter Earth is a marketer, not a manufacturer. Each of eleven product pages read on 5 September 2026 prints “Marketed By: Eternite Elements Pvt. Ltd” above a “Manufactured by” line naming somebody else.
| Manufacturer as printed | Licence number as printed |
|---|---|
| Esthetic Insights Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad | TS/MDL/2017-28300 |
| Phytofusion Labs Pvt. Ltd, Hyderabad | 02/MDL/TG/2025/COS-8/G |
| Lamior Pvt. Ltd, Surat | M.L. GC/1346 |
| Klienz Herbal Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad | 01/MDL/TS/2024/C/G |
| Cherry Cosmo, Palghar | None printed |
Eleven product pages, read 5 September 2026; country of origin on all eleven, India.
One of the five is close to home. Phytofusion Labs Private Limited, incorporated 10 October 2023, has Daughter Earth’s two directors as its whole board and is registered one floor up on the same plot as Eternite Elements. Common directorship and a shared address is what the register establishes, and nothing more.
Then the licence question, which matters on a shelf sold on Ayurveda. An Ayurvedic medicine is made under an AYUSH licence and carries an AYUSH number; a cosmetic is made under a state cosmetic licence. None of the eleven declarations carries an AYUSH number. One of the four can be placed exactly: COS-8 is the form of cosmetic manufacturing licence under the Cosmetics Rules 2020, established from the drugs regulator’s own circular of 7 August 2023.
Some states let you check the rest. Tamil Nadu’s drugs control administration publishes a cosmetics-manufacturer directory anyone can read, with licence numbers, issue dates and addresses, and no closing date on what it covers. Telangana publishes none, and Gujarat’s portal was not available on 5 September 2026, so these numbers stand as the packs print them.
Beside that, two things the brand publishes itself. The storefront describes Daughter Earth as “Safe, Effective and Scientific Ayurvedic Skincare and Beauty” and sells a “50+ Ayurvedic botanicals” hair elixir and a Kumkumadi colour corrector, read 5 September 2026. A page on the same site carries the heading “PETA Certified and Ministry of AYUSH approved”. For the AYUSH half, no approval reference, number or certificate appears on the eleven packs or anywhere on the site we read.
Eleven declarations, five manufacturers, four licence numbers — and every one of them a cosmetic licence.
The PETA half checks out. Its Beauty Without Bunnies directory carries a page headed “Daughter Earth is Cruelty-Free”, lists the brand’s own domain, and shows cruelty-free, vegan and PETA-logo badges, with a sentence covering ingredients, finished products and third parties alike. It is searchable in a minute, and it says yes.
On organic, nothing is missing because nothing is claimed. “ECOCERT MICA” is a claim about a pigment supplier’s input, not a certified product. Neither the brand nor its manufacturers appears in the COSMOS certified-products directory, whose India file holds 573 entries across 23 companies — but no organic claim is made, so that is not a shortfall.
What Daughter Earth costs in India
Fifteen SKUs on the brand’s store and four listings outside it, read 5 September 2026. The sunscreen is where the number bites.
- SunnyDip SPF 50, 50 ml
- ₹995 — ₹19.90/ml
- Plum SPF 50, 80 g
- ₹6.59/g
- Minimalist SPF 50, 100 g
- ₹6.30/g
- Gap
- About 3× the comparators
- Checked on
- 5 September 2026
The serum gap is narrower. Spot Shot 10% niacinamide runs ₹30.83/ml on the brand store and ₹24.67/ml on Nykaa, against Mamaearth at ₹10.00/ml, Plum at ₹14.94, Minimalist at ₹15.00 and Juicy Chemistry at ₹18.30–19.97. The Concentrate, 30 ml at ₹5,000, is ₹166.67 a millilitre.
The brand’s own store is usually the dearest place to buy it: the lip tint ₹795 there against ₹645 on Amazon, the serum ₹925 against ₹740 on Nykaa. Our Bata, Metro and Campus pages date every price for the same reason. TheCompanyCheck publishes revenue of ₹2.71 crore for FY2024, down 27%, and Tracxn bands it “0 – ₹10 crore” at 31 March 2025 — both aggregators’ readings of a filing, not the filing.
Who Daughter Earth is actually for
Someone who wants a small-batch Indian brand and will pay two to three times a mass-market rate. On disclosure it is better than average in one place, thin in another.
The good half: the AHA. BHA. PHA cleanser prints all three acid percentages — 1% lactic, 0.5% salicylic, 0.2% glycolic — beside its ingredient list. On Spot Shot, niacinamide sits second, straight after water, and ingredients above 1% are listed in descending order, so that position is consistent with a 10% inclusion. Consistent, not proof.
The thin half is the sunscreen. SunnyDip claims SPF 50, PA++++ and broad spectrum and names four filters, homosalate to zinc oxide, but gives no concentration for any of them.
No SPF report, method or laboratory is published for SunnyDip; the number is asserted on the page. Treat it as a claim you cannot check, and weigh it against sunscreens whose makers publish one.
Elsewhere the words run ahead of the paperwork. “Pregnancy-safe”, “99.9% plant origin”, “13 skin longevity pathways”, “Country’s first vegan lip tints” and “India’s first in-flight skincare mist” all appear on product pages read 5 September 2026, with no study or source alongside them. The pages also say “No Nasties!” and “100% Natural Face Serum”, and the site defines none of “nasties”, “clean” or “natural”. Indian cosmetics law defines none of the three either, so nothing here breaks a rule; there is simply nothing to check the words against.
Reputation and controversies
One advertising matter is on the record. Case 2305-EXRS.05, decided 7 June 2023, concerned a YouTube advertisement for Daughter Earth Vitamin E liquid lipsticks. It was upheld because the influencer disclosure labels were missing — a finding about how a video was labelled, not about anything the product claimed to do. The brand’s advertising file carries zero product-claim findings.
The limits belong in the same breath. The Advertising Standards Council of India is a self-regulatory industry body, not a statutory regulator. Its 2023 decision addressed one advertisement as it then stood; it is not a standing ban on a form of words, and nobody has ruled on any page as it reads today. That is what the published outcomes carried when read on 5 September 2026, and this page claims no more.
The lipstick line is on sale. On 5 September 2026 the Vitamin E Lip & Cheek Tint was listed at ₹795 against an MRP of ₹975 on the brand’s store, and ₹645 on Amazon, carrying the wording “100% vegan. Zero preservatives. No Parabens. No Silicones. No Sulfates. No Nasties!”
Three searches of the Indian judgments database on 5 September 2026 — “Eternite Elements”, “Daughter Earth” with cosmetics, and both combined — found nothing about this company. That is a finding in the brand’s favour, on those terms and that date, and not a claim of completeness: the database does not index every consumer forum, and no consumer commission system was searched.
Buying it in India
Read the declaration block
Turn the box over. “Marketed By” and “Manufactured by” are usually different companies, and the licence number sits beside them.
Note which licence it is
A cosmetic licence number is not an AYUSH one, whatever the front of the pack says. Numbers carrying COS-8 are cosmetic licences under the Cosmetics Rules 2020.
Look for the SPF study
An SPF number on a page is an assertion. A published report names a method, a laboratory and a measured value. Note which brands supply one.
Check cruelty-free yourself
PETA’s directory is public and searchable by brand. Daughter Earth is on it; many brands using the words are not.
Common questions
Who owns Daughter Earth?
Eternite Elements Private Limited, a Hyderabad company incorporated in August 2015, run by its two directors, with no funding round on record.
Is Daughter Earth actually Ayurvedic?
Its storefront uses the word and it sells Kumkumadi and botanical formulations. Every licence number on its packs is a cosmetic licence, and none of the declarations read on 5 September 2026 carries an AYUSH number.
Is Daughter Earth cruelty-free?
PETA’s public directory lists it as cruelty-free and vegan. Animal testing of cosmetics has been illegal in India since 2014, so this is the legal floor here.
Is the sunscreen worth ₹995?
That is ₹19.90 a millilitre against ₹6.30–₹6.59 a gram for Minimalist and Plum SPF 50, checked 5 September 2026. No SPF report is published, so the premium buys brand, not evidence.
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References
- Daughter Earth storefront, 5 September 2026 — claims, prices
- ZaubaCorp, Eternite Elements Private Limited, 5 September 2026 — CIN, directors
- TheCompanyCheck, Eternite Elements Private Limited, 5 September 2026 — former name, revenue
- ZaubaCorp, Phytofusion Labs Private Limited, 5 September 2026 — board, address
- Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation, circular of 7 August 2023 — COS-8
- Daughter Earth, SunnyDip SPF 50, 5 September 2026 — SPF claims
- Daughter Earth, Spot Shot 10% Niacinamide, 5 September 2026 — INCI order
- Daughter Earth, “7 Reasons Why You Will Love Daughter Earth”, 5 September 2026 — AYUSH heading
- PETA Beauty Without Bunnies, Daughter Earth, 5 September 2026 — cruelty-free listing
- Nykaa, Spot Shot 10% Niacinamide, 5 September 2026 — ₹740 price
- COSMOS-standard certified products directory, 5 September 2026 — India file
- Indian Kanoon, 5 September 2026 — court searches
- Verve, 17 December 2020 — founder interview
The ownership story is about as clean as Indian skincare gets: one registration, two directors, ₹1,00,000 of paid-up capital, no investor on the record. The cruelty-free claim checks out on PETA’s directory, the acid cleanser prints its percentages, and the brand says “Ecocert mica” rather than calling the lipstick certified.
Against that, the money. ₹19.90 a millilitre for a sunscreen with no published test report is about three times what Minimalist and Plum charge, and ₹166.67 a millilitre for The Concentrate rests partly on a “13 pathways” figure with no published basis. Ayurvedic language on the front, cosmetic licences on the back: a reader can hold both.
Buy the cleanser and the serum if the brand appeals; buy your sunscreen from someone who publishes the study.
