About pique
We’re on a mission to create doctor-approved,
cutting-edge solutions for your head-to-toe health and beauty transformation.
Unlocking nature’s potential
Our exquisite ingredients are sourced from the most biodiverse and ecological destinations around the world – from pristine mountains of Kagoshima, Japan to sun-drenched coasts of Calabria, Italy and primordial forests of Yunnan, China. Prizing quality and artisanship, we’ve formed deep relationships with multi-generational farmers, teamasters, traditional medicine doctors and ingredient scientists to design cutting-edge solutions for a healthier, radiantly beautiful you.
Pique Founder Simon Cheng (left) & tea farmer Mr. Zhu (right) alongside the 1,200 year-old pu’er tea tree
Founder's Story
Born in the Far East, I’ve been steeped in the world of tea and functional plants since I was a child. Gathering, talking and immersing ourselves in rare teas with my grandfather was a joyful family ritual that I continue today. In Hong Kong, daily staples included collagen broths and herbal tonics designed to continuously nourish the skin and rebalance the body as seasons, climates and environmental stressors change.
After coming to America in my teens, life got progressively more intense. Between trying to get into the best schools and highest paying jobs, I disconnected with the practices that gave me joy, connection and radiant health and got increasingly caught up in the rat race.
In the decade after graduating from Harvard, I struggled with an onslaught of health issues from respiratory infections to severe acne and skin irritations. Life was a rotating door between an unfulfilling career and doctors' clinics sustaining on a regular drip of antibiotics and steroidal creams and sprays. Both my lungs eventually collapsed requiring operations that left staples in each of them.
It wasn’t until after my third operation which left a screw in my jaw, that I was shaken awake from my auto-pilot and self-destruct approach to health and wellness. I vowed to take back control of my health.
Little did I know, I would also reclaim ownership of my soul.
In the years that followed, I traveled across the world to heal myself, from the snowy mountains of the Himalayas to the lush forests of the Pacific Northwest, to study the art of Eastern medicine and breathwork with the world’s most accomplished masters.
Along the way, I befriended healers of all kinds deeply connected to the natural world and formed partnerships with leading scientists in the fields of natural medicine and plant extracts. Everything that we know, that we believe and that we discover is continuously synthesized into Pique and our cutting-edge solutions.
Pique Life
