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I went looking for a material that didn't exist.

I went looking for a material I couldn't find.

I was designing furniture. Pregnant, with a two-year-old beside me. Somewhere in the middle of specifying finishes, I looked at my son and knew I wanted to leave the planet better for them both. Making more of the same wasn't going to do that.

I stopped. For months I couldn't move the project forward.

I'd spent my whole career using these materials. As an artist, as an architectural designer, on job sites, in furniture factories. I had never once interrogated them. Now I couldn't stop. Most art mediums are built on plastic. Most wall compounds carry crystalline silica, classified in the same category as asbestos.

Nobody chose this. It was simply the default, set decades ago, when performance and cost were the main questions being asked.

Better options existed, but too often they came with a tradeoff: performance, or something better for you and the planet.

I didn't accept the terms.

So I found a scientist who didn't either — Tom Vermeeren, thirty-five years in materials — and we started mixing. Six years. Hundreds of formulations. We melted a bucket. A batch bloomed black specks. It cracked, it warped. We went months where the only good news was that one failure had stopped failing.

Then one morning it cured clean. No cracking. No warping. No unwanted reactions. Stone. Sitting in my hand.

I stared at it. I felt it. I marveled at it. It actually felt Supernatural.

What I want for you

The carbon it captures, the crystalline silica we leave out, the Public Benefit Corporation we are legally bound to be — that part is our job. Holding the standard on every batch. Never asking you to trade beauty for health, or performance for sustainability.

You make the work. We'll continue to solve the rest.

— Alicia Garcia-Romero, Founder & CEO

“It’s been a long time since I have found a product that I am literally creating ideas and walls for.”
— Caroline Lizarraga, Master of Bespoke Decorative Art

FAQ - ABOUT SUPERNATURAL PBC

  • Supernatural, PBC is a materials innovation company in the San Francisco Bay Area. Each product made from the patented formula captures carbon dioxide from the air as it cures. From one base material comes many products. The idea behind it: every surface, a carbon sink.

  • A Public Benefit Corporation is a legal structure, not a marketing label, that legally requires the company to balance financial returns with its mission to protect people and the planet. Supernatural chose it because it reflects how the company was already being run, and it signals to every customer, partner, and investor that the values aren’t negotiable.

  • Supernatural was founded by Alicia Garcia-Romero, an architectural  designer and artist  who spent her career working with the materials she set out to fix. After years of asking why art, design and construction materials still relied on toxic, plastic-based ingredients when better chemistry was possible, she spent five years on R&D with a materials scientist to build the alternative.

  • A small amount, and we put a number on it.

    Studio One is ~99% mineral and bio-based. The other ~1% is a synthetic stabilizer, an acrylic polymer. That's one part in a hundred. It isn't what holds the material together.

    The structure is stone. As Studio One cures, it mineralizes into real calcium carbonate. Conventional molding pastes work the other way: their makers describe them as bound by 100% acrylic polymer emulsion. There, the plastic is the structure.

    We count it. It's included in our carbon accounting, and Studio One remains carbon-negative at the material level. Studio One is listed by Parsons Healthy Materials Lab, stabilizer included.

    And we're always testing for better.

  • Supernatural’s current product line is The Studio Line, its first product is a mineral texture molding paste and ground for artists, designers, and creators , available now at supernaturalpbc.com. In development is the Built Line, an architectural coatings-focused brand setting out to replace decorative coatings and construction finishing products. All come from the same original mineral–organic base, built with completely different fillers, binders, and aggregates, formulated for their different jobs.

  • Carbon capture is built into the chemistry: as the mineral–organic material cures, it mineralizes, absorbing CO2 from the air and locking it permanently into calcium carbonate. That’s real stone. The platform also includes biogenic carbon waste, CO2 that was already captured and would be released at end of life.  This CO2 stays permanently locked in the mineral matrix rather than released through decomposition. No offsets, no purchased credits — it’s the material doing what the chemistry does.

  • Supernatural’s carbon model is based on ISO 14040/14044 life cycle principles, and the in-use CO2 uptake as well as biogenic carbon storage reflects real carbonation chemistry. The technology has been reviewed by the UC Berkeley Disaster Lab and recognized by Dr. John Warner, co-founder of the field of Green Chemistry, who called the ability to capture CO2 in everyday materials groundbreaking. The company is committed to transparent, science-grounded claims.

  • Once cured, Studio One is stone. It mineralizes into calcium carbonate, the same mineral found in limestone. The carbon it captures as it cures stays in that stone.

    We're researching what cured material can become next, including reuse. We'll share those paths when we can stand behind them.

    We're always testing for better.

  • Yes. Supernatural holds a non-provisional patent filed in December 2024, with international acknowledgment through the WIPO Patent Cooperation Treaty, and the PCT’s broadest claims were confirmed as novel. The underlying platform is proprietary. Patent pending.

  • Yes — Supernatural welcomes wholesale inquiries from art supply retailers, design studios, specialty material shops, and institutional buyers. The retail and trade network is actively being built. Reach out at hello@supernaturalpbc.com with a bit about your store or studio.

  • Yes, Supernatural offers volume pricing for studio and institutional buyers. If you’re an interior designer, architect, educator, or creative professional who works with texture materials at a large scale , email hello@supernaturalpbc.com and tell us a little about how you work.

  • The Built Line, currently in development, is designed specifically for the green building specification channel, with characteristics relevant to LEED, WELL, and CALGreen standards. If you’re a developer, general contractor, or specifying architect interested in piloting it, Supernatural is entertaining early partnerships at hello@supernaturalpbc.com.

  • Supernatural launched on Earth Day 2026, with the Studio Line available now and the Built Line in development. The company is building its early customer base and scaling across the art supply channel. We are not currently raising institutional capital but will begin conversations with select partners in 2026 as we look toward  commercial launches of future verticals.

  • Supernatural welcomes conversations with aligned partners and collaborators Reach out directly at hello@supernaturalpbc.com.

  • Designed in California, Made in the USA.

A natural wonder that works magic.

Studio One is the first product from Supernatural, PBC — a Public Benefit Corporation building a new class of mineral–organic materials that raise the standard for performance, design, and human health.