Ostrich Oil

Ostrich Oil is a Danish skincare and haircare line built around a single raw material: oil rendered from the African ostrich. It is made by Malaja, a small family-owned business based in Middelfart, Denmark, which dates its founding to 2002 [2]. The products are sold both through the company's own webshop and through third-party retailers, and the range remained in active distribution as of 2026 [5].

The brand grew out of an unusual starting point. According to the company, its owners once kept their own ostrich farm and were looking for a use for the surplus oil that would otherwise have been thrown away; they turned it into a line of skin and hair products [2].

Malaja describes itself as "a small family-owned business" producing and selling skincare made from African ostrich oil, and the whole venture began as a way to repurpose oil from the founders' farm [2]. The founders' names are not publicly disclosed. The business has stayed centred in Middelfart, where it both makes and sells its goods.

The founding year is given as 2002 on the company's own about page [2]. One Danish retailer listing instead states that the brand has produced ostrich-oil skincare "since 2001" [6]; that earlier date is not confirmed by the company, and 2002 is the year it states itself.

The catalogue centres on ostrich oil, which the company says "penetrates the skin well" and presents as a treatment for dry, cracked and hard skin [2]. Aloe vera appears as a second signature ingredient, and the shop is organised into three ranges: aloe vera, ostrich oil, and ostrich feathers. Individual products span face creams, lotions, lip balm, shampoo and hair treatments, salves and pure oil, foot-bath soap, and a paw wax.

Among the named products is a freesia-scented cream in a 50 ml size, described by the retailer Matas as reparative and moisturising for dry skin [5]. A neutral, unscented cream is also offered in 50 ml and 500 ml sizes. Full ingredient lists are not published on the company's own product pages.

Malaja's stated aim is "skin products as naturally as possible," and it frames its formulas around minimal processing and a single natural oil [1]. The origin story doubles as a resource-efficiency point: the company was set up specifically to use oil that its own farm would otherwise have discarded [2]. No third-party certifications are documented. The products are made in Denmark, at the company's Middelfart premises.

Ostrich Oil remains an active but small operation. Its own webshop looks dated and its blog carries no posts, but the range is still stocked by the Danish beauty chain Matas and by several health-food and beauty retailers, and was listed for sale as of 2026 [5]. Its reach is essentially limited to a single market.