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Antique White, in a high pony
Hot Pink, in a high pony
around a top bun
Hot Pink, around a bun
Antique White, a low pony, quietly
Hot Pink, low pony
Antique White, resting on a swirl of hair
Antique White and Hot Pink, side by side
Antique White, from above
the two colours
up close: silk charmeuse, gathered by hand
Antique White and Hot Pink
Candy Pop, beside a thin Candy Dot
the big one and the thin one
up close: the sheen of silk charmeuse
silk, resting on silkThe Essentials · Vol. 01 · Mulberry silk charmeuse
Candy Pop
₹2,762MRP inclusive of all taxes
The big, puffy one. One scrunchie in 100% mulberry silk charmeuse.
Size: Candy Pop · big & puffy
Candy Popbig & puffy
₹2,762
Candy Dotthin
₹1,487
About 9 cm across, lying flat · 22 momme silk
Antique White is resting for now. Leave your email and we'll write the day it's back. Nothing else, ever.
Make it a pair
Candy Pop + Candy Dot, one each in Antique White. Save 10%.
₹3,824.10
Delivery to Austria: free over €50, €18 below · tracked, 4–5 working days.
Final sale · Hygiene · No returns Worn first by you. Why
No piece is ever tried on, sent back and sent out again, so the one that reaches you has never been in anyone else's hair. That's why we can't take returns. If yours arrives damaged, write to us within 48 hours with a short video of the damage (preferred) or a few clear photos, and a new one is on its way. The small print
Skin-friendly mulberry silk charmeuse. The same silk we had tested by a Govt. of India lab. The report
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One scrunchie, not a pack. On purpose. Why just one
Gathered by hand, by rural women artisans in India.
A soft cloud of mulberry silk charmeuse for buns and ponytails. It holds without biting, and slides out instead of pulling. for the bun you do without a mirror
Its mood
Little By Little
Candy Pop is the big, puffy one in the Essentials: one scrunchie of 100% mulberry silk charmeuse, gathered by hand onto a soft elastic.
- One scrunchie in the pouch, not a pack
- Colours: Antique White and Hot Pink
- For buns, high and low ponytails, thick or curly hair. One loop for thick hair, two for fine.
- Silk slides instead of gripping, so it comes out without a tug
- Made by hand in small batches, so the gathers sit a little differently from piece to piece
Fabric
100% mulberry silk charmeuse: the satin weave, in real silk. A natural protein fibre, glossy on one face, matte on the other
Tested by
Regional Laboratory, Textiles Committee — Ministry of Textiles, Govt. of India, Kolkata · September 2026
Results
Banned azo dyes: not detected (all 24 amines under 30 mg/kg) · Formaldehyde: not detectable · pH 7.31 · Colour-fastness to sweat: 5 of 5 · to rubbing: 5 dry, 4–5 wet
The small print
The lab tested a sample of this silk in Wildpetal's colour. Candy Pop is cut from the same silk; Antique White and Hot Pink are other colours, so the dye results speak for the colour tested. Reports TC/ST/CEO/282/2026-27 and TC/LC/ST/1008/2026-27, dated 21 September 2026, are on our Lab reports page.
Elastic
Soft elastic · replaced free within 180 days of shipping. See your days left
Silk likes to be treated like hair, because it nearly is.
- Hand wash on its own in cool water, 30°C at most
- Use a pH-neutral, enzyme-free silk wash (enzymes digest silk)
- Wash gently and rinse well; no soaking
- Press the water out in a clean towel; never twist or wring
- Dry flat in the shade, away from heat; sun fades silk
- Let it dry completely before you wear it or put it away
- No bleach, no tumble dryer. If it looks sleepy, a little steam wakes it up
Free shipping across India on orders over ₹499. Once it leaves us: about 2 working days to the big metros, 4 working days to most other cities, and 6 working days everywhere else in India.
Outside India, 4–5 working days, tracked. Delivery is free over $50 in the US, £45 in the UK, €50 in Europe and US$50 elsewhere; below that it's $20, £16, €18 or US$20. If your country charges import duty, it's collected on delivery, not by us.
Each piece travels in a paper Moosi pouch. Keep it, gift it, regift it; the pouch doesn't mind.
A small honest note — because each scrunchie touches your hair and skin, we can't accept returns or exchanges, worn or unworn. Hair things are personal, and re-circulating them isn't fair to the next Creature.
Please pick mindfully. If your piece arrives damaged in transit, write to us at moosi.care@gmail.com within 48 hours, with a short video of the damage (preferred) or a few clear photos, and we'll send a fresh one.
The everyday benefits
A little luxury, every day.
Thoughtful fabric, a shape that suits your routine, and care beyond the first wear.
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How it worksHolds without the tug
Wide, soft gathers spread the hold, so your hair stays put without the tight squeeze of a thin band. Dermatologists warn that styles pulled tight, day after day, strain hair at the roots.
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Feel itSlides out, doesn't snag
Silk is one long, smooth filament, so at the end of the day it slides out of your hair instead of catching on the way. Slip it over your wrist first and feel the difference.
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How it worksFewer flyaways than polyester
Hair and silk sit close together on the static scale; polyester sits far away. That’s why a polyester “satin” tie can leave a dry-day ponytail full of flyaways, and silk mostly doesn’t.
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Lab-testedKind to skin, and tested
A Government of India lab tested a sample of this silk: no banned azo dyes, no detectable formaldehyde and a near-neutral pH of 7.31. It sits on your wrist all day, so we checked.
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Look closerA soft, natural sheen
Each silk fibre is a rounded triangle that bends light softly instead of bouncing it straight back. So even a hairstyle done in a hurry looks finished.
What we don’t claim: that silk stops hair fall, mends damaged hair or suits every skin. We’d rather show you only what we can back up.
Why your hair notices
All day, on the same spot.
Shampoo, conditioner, serum, the odd salon day. All that care, and then a hair tie holds the same few strands for eight, ten, twelve hours. That spot is where hair takes the strain. Here's what changes when the tie is silk.
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A thin bandCandy Pop How it worksSame hold, spread wider
A thin band squeezes one narrow ring of hair. Candy Pop's soft gathers hold over a much wider band, so each strand takes less of the pinch, and your bun still stays put.
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Illustration. Static changes with weather, season and hair. How it worksSilk sits next to hair
Rub two materials together and charge jumps between them. The further apart they sit on this scale, the bigger the jump. Hair and silk are near neighbours; polyester sits far away, which is how a polyester “satin” tie fills a dry-day ponytail with flyaways.
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Cut through: the elastic sits inside a tube of silk. Feel itOnly silk touches your hair
The elastic is wrapped all the way round in silk, so there's no bare rubber to catch. At night it slides out instead of tugging your hair along with it.
The American Academy of Dermatology suggests wearing hair loosely pulled back, with covered bands made for styling hair. A silk scrunchie is exactly that kind of band. Their tips ↗
More frictionscales lifted and chipped
Less frictionscales lying flat
Less friction
Hair wears tiny scales. Silk lets them lie flat.
Every strand is wrapped in overlapping scales called the cuticle. Lying flat, they keep hair smooth and catch the light. Rubbed and tugged day after day, they lift and chip, and lifted scales snag, tangle and break more easily.
- Silk glides over hairIn friction tests at TRI Princeton, a hair research institute, silk slid over hair more easily than cotton. Less drag each time you tie up, turn your head or roll it off.
- For hair that’s been through a lotCurly, dry, coloured or heat-styled hair has scales that lift more easily. Those are the strands that feel a rough tie first.
No hair tie repairs damage that’s already there. Silk just takes one rough thing off the list.
Up close
What you’re holding.
- 100% mulberry silk charmeuse22 momme. Glossy on the outside, matte on the inside.
- Gathered by handSo the folds fall a little differently on every one.
- A soft elastic insideWrapped all the way round in silk, so only silk touches your hair.
- About 9 cm acrossLying flat, edge to edge.
Momme (mm) is how silk fabric is weighed, not its thickness in millimetres.
The glow
That soft glow? It’s the shape of the fibre.
Silk isn’t round. The silkworm spins each thread as two strands with rounded, triangle-like sides, a bit like tiny prisms. Light slips in, bends and comes back soft and pearly, so the sheen shifts as you move your head.
- Prisms, not rodsMost polyester is spun as smooth round rods. Light bounces straight off the top, so the shine sits on the surface: bright, flat, a little plastic.
- The gum comes off firstRaw silk wears a gum called sericin. It’s washed away before the silk is woven, leaving bare, smooth filaments to catch the light.
- Charmeuse shows its glossy faceCharmeuse is woven so long silk threads float on one side. That’s the glossy face you see on every gather.
Why just one
Yes, it's one. On purpose.
Scrunchies usually come by the dozen: a pack of polyester “satin” for less than one Candy Pop costs. We know. Candy Pop is one piece of real mulberry silk, gathered by hand. It isn't a smaller pack. It's a different thing that happens to be the same shape.
Candy Pop
The pack
The cloth
Candy Pop: 100% mulberry silk charmeuse: a protein fibre, like your hair
The pack: Polyester “satin”: satin is only the weave, the fibre is plastic
Lab report
Candy Pop: The same silk, tested by the Textiles Committee, Govt. of India
The pack: Usually none to show
On your hair
Candy Pop: Slides out instead of pulling
The pack: Plastic warms against the skin and drags on the strand
Static
Candy Pop: Silk sits near hair on the static scale: fewer flyaways
The pack: Polyester sits far away: more static on dry days
Who makes it
Candy Pop: Gathered by hand, by rural women artisans
The pack: A machine line, by the thousand
Care
Candy Pop: Hand wash in cool water. It’s silk, after all
The pack: Into the machine with everything else
How many you need
Candy Pop: One. The kind you look for when it goes missing.
The pack: Twelve, so losing a few doesn't matter
What it costs
₹2,762 for one
less, for all twelve
~ one you keep, over twelve you lose.
The silk
Mulberry silk charmeuse. Skin-friendly, and lab-tested.
Candy Pop is cut from the same mulberry silk charmeuse as Wildpetal. We sent that silk to the Textiles Committee's laboratory, Govt. of India, and had it tested for what matters to skin.
Satin is a weave, not a material, and most satin scrunchies are polyester. Ours is charmeuse, the satin weave in real mulberry silk: glossy on one face, matte on the other. Silk is a protein fibre, like your hair, so it slides instead of gripping. Sleep in it, if you like.
Lab report · Sep 2026
Skin-friendly. Here's the lab report behind it.
Regional Laboratory, Textiles Committee — Ministry of Textiles, Govt. of India, Kolkata. Tested 11–21 September 2026.
- Banned azo dyesNone found. All 24 banned amines the lab checks for came back under the 30 mg/kg limit.Not detected
- FormaldehydeNone the test could detect.Not detectable
- pHClose to neutral; 7 is neutral.7.31
- Colour and sweatNo fading, and no colour running onto silk or cotton, in acidic or alkaline sweat.5 of 5
- Colour and rubbingRubbed against white cotton: nothing dry, at most a faint trace wet.5 dry · 4–5 wet
What it adds up to: nothing harmful found, a near-neutral pH, and colour that stays in the silk. That's why we call it skin-friendly.
Grades run from 1 to 5, and 5 is the best a fabric can score. The lab tested a sample of this silk in Wildpetal's colour. Antique White and Hot Pink are the same silk in other colours, so the dye results speak for the colour tested. Reports TC/ST/CEO/282/2026-27 and TC/LC/ST/1008/2026-27, both dated 21 September 2026. Read both reports, and what each result means.
Which size
Two sizes. Same silk.
Candy Pop and Candy Dot are cut from the same silk, in the same two colours. Only the size changes, and with it, what each one is good at.
Candy Pop big & puffy
Big and puffy. For buns, high and low ponytails, thick or curly hair, and days you want it seen. One loop for thick hair, two for fine.
₹2,762You're here
Candy Dot thin
Thin and light. For braid ends, low ponies, fine hair and wrists. Loop it two or three times, and it all but disappears.
₹1,487See Candy Dot →
No rules in the forest
Bun today. Pony tomorrow.
Big enough to hold a heavy bun, soft enough to forget it's there. When your hair comes down, it waits on your wrist.
The making circle
Gathered by hand. Creatures, like you.
Every Candy Pop is gathered by hand by rural women artisans in India, in small batches. When you take one home, you're carrying a little piece of someone's morning.
Other Creatures
Be the first to say how it sits.
Candy Pop is new in the forest, so this corner is still quiet. Every word that lands here will come from someone who bought one.
- Over 45 orders have gone out from the forest since August.
- Damaged on the way? Write within 48 hours with a short video (preferred) or photos, and a fresh one comes.
- A person answers. +91 22 6964 7032 · moosi.care@gmail.com
Wearing yours? Tell us how it sits.
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The rest of the forest
Other small things, also handmade.
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Asked in the forest
The things people actually ask.
Short answers, true ones. If yours isn't here, write to us.
Why is it just one? Others sell packs.
Because it's a different thing. Most packs are polyester “satin”, made on a line by the dozen. Candy Pop is one piece of 100% mulberry satin silk, gathered by hand, cut from the same silk we had lab-tested. One you keep, rather than twelve you lose.
Is it really silk?
Yes — 100% mulberry silk charmeuse. Charmeuse is a satin weave: glossy on one face, matte on the other. Satin is a weave, not a material, and most satin scrunchies are polyester. Ours is spun by silkworms.
Is it skin-friendly? Has the silk been lab-tested?
Yes. The silk was tested in September 2026 by the Regional Laboratory of the Textiles Committee in Kolkata, part of the Ministry of Textiles, Govt. of India. No banned azo dyes were found, formaldehyde was not detectable, the pH was 7.31 (close to neutral), and the colour held against sweat (5 of 5) and rubbing (5 dry, 4–5 wet). That's why we call it skin-friendly.
Two honest notes: it's a lab test of the fabric, not a test on skin, and the sample was the silk in Wildpetal's colour. Candy Pop is cut from the same silk; Antique White and Hot Pink are other colours, so the dye results speak for the colour tested. Both reports are on our Lab reports page.
Candy Pop or Candy Dot: which one is mine?
Candy Pop is the big, puffy one: buns, high ponies, thick or curly hair. One loop for thick hair, two for fine. Candy Dot is the thin one: braid ends, low ponies, fine hair and wrists. Same silk, same two colours. Plenty of Creatures keep one of each.
What happens when the elastic gets tired?
Within 180 days of the day we ship your Candy Pop, we replace the elastic for free. Write to us first, post your Candy Pop to us (you cover the way there), and we fit a new elastic and post it home, return shipping on us. About a week, door to door.
You can see how many days are left on each piece any time: sign in with the email you ordered with and open My elastic promise. The promise in full.
How do I wash it?
Hand wash in cool water with a mild soap — no soaking, no wringing. Press the water out in a towel and dry it flat in the shade; sun fades silk.
How long will it take to reach me?
Once it leaves us: about 2 working days to the big metros, 4 to most other cities, 6 everywhere else in India, and 4–5 working days outside India. You can check your own pincode on this page.
Shipping is free across India on orders over ₹499, and it travels in a paper Moosi pouch.
Do you ship outside India?
Yes. We ship to 28 countries, including the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, the UAE, Singapore, Japan and much of Europe. Delivery is tracked and takes 4–5 working days.
It's free on orders over $50 in the US, £45 in the UK, €50 in Europe and US$50 everywhere else; below that, it's $20, £16, €18 or US$20. Prices show in your currency, and checkout charges the same amount in Indian rupees (your bank converts it). If your country charges import duty, it's collected on delivery, not by us.
Can I return or exchange it?
No, and here's the honest reason: it's something that lives in your hair, and passing it on to the next Creature isn't fair to her. So please pick mindfully.
If yours arrives damaged, write to us at moosi.care@gmail.com within 48 hours of delivery, with a short video of the damage (preferred) or a few clear photos, and we'll send a fresh one.
Are the reviews on this page real?
Yes. Every review here comes from someone who bought this piece, and we copy them word for word. To write one on this site you sign in with the email you ordered with, and we read each one before it goes up. We don't hide the lukewarm ones.