Whole ingredients, visibly

Open a pack of our kahwa and you can identify what you are looking at — pieces of bark, whole seeds, dried flowers, cut root. That is deliberate. Grinding everything to powder makes blending cheaper and makes it impossible for anyone to tell what they bought.

Our teas are whole leaf or leaf grade, not fannings. Our botanicals are sold as single ingredients — chamomile is chamomile, hibiscus is hibiscus — so you can brew them on their own or build something of your own.

Small batches, because that is the honest size

Everything is blended and packed by us in Amritsar, in quantities small enough that a batch moves before it goes flat. We are not warehousing a year of stock. When something sells out, it is because it sold out.

What we mean by a kahwa

Kahwa in the north of India means a brewed infusion, usually simmered rather than steeped, traditionally made with whatever the household kept for the season — ginger and tulsi in the winter, lighter flowers in the summer. It is a domestic tradition, not a clinical one.

That is the tradition our blends come from. We portion them so you can make one on a Tuesday morning without measuring anything, and we tell you exactly what went in.

How we sell

• Direct, from our own website. No marketplace listings, no resellers
• Order updates come from Vapika on WhatsApp — our number, our name
• Free shipping over ₹499, flat ₹70 below it
• Every order carries a proper GST invoice

Who we are

Vapika is a proprietorship run by Narinder Kaur, based at Sultanwind Road, Amritsar. Small enough that if something goes wrong with your order, the person who replies is the person who can fix it.

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