Maison Mélange is rooted in the life and work of Madison Hunter. An artist, wellness founder, psychology professional, and lifelong creator whose world has always revolved around beauty, emotional healing, and self-expression.

Madison is a Philadelphia-based creative with a background in psychology, behavioral studies, and holistic self-care practices. Even before she understood the language of wellness, she understood the language of art. As a child and young adult, she spent hours painting in her room, using color, texture, and movement to escape, process emotion, and express what words could not. Art was her first ritual. Her first safe space. Her first way to care for herself.

As she grew older, her creativity evolved into makeup, beauty, hair, and other forms of personal expression, all of which helped her feel grounded, confident, and connected to herself. Over time, she realized that beauty wasn’t just aesthetic for her. It was emotional. It was healing. It was another medium through which she nurtured herself and others.

This creative foundation was reinforced by the world she grew up in. Madison was raised by her mother, a hairstylist and natural caretaker, whose work extended far beyond the salon chair. The salon was a refuge, a space where women came not only for their hair, but for relief, laughter, release, and emotional connection. Madison watched how her mother held space for people, how beauty transformed mood, and how care created community.

She didn’t realize it then, but these experiences were shaping her life’s work.

They taught her early that care is connection, and sometimes it is the only thing that helps people survive their hardest seasons.

At home, her mother made small remedies, foot soaks, oil blends, and healing rituals after long days spent caring for others. As Madison moved through her own challenges with stress, emotional pressure, and the expectations placed on Black women, she began to understand how essential these quiet acts of care truly were.

For her mother, self-care wasn’t luxury.

It was survival.

It was her way of staying whole.

Maison Mélange was born from that same truth.

Madison’s academic background in psychology helped her understand how people carry stress in their bodies and how grounding rituals help restore emotional balance. She saw the connection between the mind, the skin, and the nervous system, and she wanted to create something that could soothe all three.

Her artistic roots influenced everything she created: the textures, the colors, the sensory feel of each blend. Her psychology training informed her understanding of emotional grounding. And her mother’s influence shaped her belief that beauty and care are deeply intertwined.

She intentionally chose botanicals, oats, flowers, oils, and herbs, ingredients that are gentle, familiar, and comforting. They don’t overwhelm. They quietly support, the way care should.

Maison Mélange is Madison’s love letter to:

• the women who push through exhaustion

• the caregivers who rarely receive the care they give

• the communities that survive through creativity, connection, and softness

• the individuals who feel deeply and carry much

• the artists who use beauty to express and heal

• and every person learning to return to themselves again

It is also a love letter to the version of Madison who once felt she had to push through everything without rest.

Today, Madison is committed to creating products that feel like home, warm, soothing, grounding, and to building a brand that honors emotional wellness just as much as physical care. Maison Mélange represents everything she has lived, studied, created, and healed through:

a blend of care, community, psychology, art, beauty, and softness.

Her hope is that every person who uses these blends feels even a fraction of the comfort, expression, and emotional release that inspired their creation.