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F20 Rose Ceramide Barrier Cream, part of building skin that handles daylight well
Skin Health Sunscreen

Why I Don't Wear Sunscreen Every Day

By Rae Indigo

Sunscreen is a filter, not a strategy. What it does, what it does not do, and what actually makes skin handle daylight well.

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F8 Angel Face Fast Recovery Serum, formulated to calm red, reactive skin
Barrier Repair Redness

Redness Isn't Sensitivity. It's a Signal.

By Rae Indigo

Visible redness is blood arriving because your skin asked for help. Usually it is asking about the barrier, not about a skin type you are...

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F14 French Plum Radiance Serum, cold-pressed plum seed oil for tone and radiance
Dark Spots Pigmentation

Dark Spots Don't Fade From the Top Down

By Rae Indigo

Pigment is made at the bottom of the epidermis and delivered upward. So the spot you can see was manufactured weeks ago, several layers below...

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F81 Clear Skin Clarifying Toner, a botanical toner whose color shifts with the harvest
Formulation Fresh Batches

Why Your Toner Is a Different Color This Time

By Rae Indigo

Autumn is harvest season, so the botanicals coming into the lab now are not the ones that went in last spring. If your toner arrived...

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F19 Just Fruit Antioxidant Serum, formulated with fresh fruit polyphenols
Formulation Ingredients

The Ingredient List Is Not the Product

By Rae Indigo

Two serums can share an ingredient list and behave nothing alike. The label tells you what went in the door. It tells you almost nothing...

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F108 The Renewal Accelerator Bio-Serum, formulated with purified bakuchiol
Bakuchiol Retinol

Retinol, Bakuchiol, and Why We Only Use One of Them

By Rae Indigo

Retinol works. I have never said otherwise. This is the full argument for why we still will not formulate with it, what bakuchiol actually is,...

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F8 Angel Face Fast Recovery Serum, for congested and blemish-prone skin
Closed Comedones Congestion

Why You're Still Breaking Out When You're Doing Everything Right

By Rae Indigo

The bump you are looking at today was decided about eight weeks ago. Once you know how long a closed comedone takes to form, most...

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Woman examining her skin in natural light, illustrating changes in skin after 40
Barrier Repair Skin After 40

The Real Reason Your Skin Changed After 40 ( and why nothing you have tried has worked )

By Rae Indigo

A client told me she did everything right and her skin still got worse. She had. The problem was that almost everything she was using...

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Hyaluronic acid serum and fresh botanicals on a warm neutral surface
Hyaluronic Acid Hydration

The Truth About Hyaluronic Acid (and why it can leave your skin drier)

By Rae Indigo

Hyaluronic acid does not add water to your skin. It moves water that is already there. Which is why, in dry air, it can quietly...

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