60s
Your skin is still
listening to you.
The products barely change at this stage. What changes is how you use them, where you use them, and what's fair to expect. That's what this page is really about.
See the routine
What I'm not going to promise.
I'm not going to tell you this will take decades off. You'd know that wasn't true, and you'd be right to close the page.
Here's what I will say, and I mean it precisely.
Skin that is comfortable, well hydrated and properly looked after looks considerably better than skin that is dry, tight and neglected — at sixty, at eighty, at any age at all. That gap is real, it's visible, and it is entirely within reach.
You are not trying to become someone younger. You're trying to be comfortable in the skin you have.
That's a goal I can actually help with, and it's the one this whole page is built around.
Renewal hasn't stopped. It's simply slower.
Your skin is thinner than it was, and it holds onto water for less time. You've probably noticed that the same amount of cream doesn't go as far, and that skin which used to bounce back from a dry week now takes a fortnight to settle.
None of that means renewal has switched off. It hasn't, and it won't. Cells are still turning over roughly every thirty days, and what forms next month is still shaped by what you give it this month.
Which means the ordinary, unglamorous things — hydration, a barrier that's holding together, doing the same small thing daily — are worth more now than they've ever been. Not less.
Three products, and none of them are complicated.
Lukewarm water, never hot — hot water pulls out lipids that are harder to replace now. Twenty or thirty seconds is plenty. If your face feels tight afterwards, that's a sign to be gentler, not to moisturize harder.
Hydration is the priority now, and it isn't a consolation prize. Skin that's holding water is more comfortable, catches light better, and makes fine lines look softer than any treatment product will on a dehydrated face.
F27 Superfat Barrier Repair Cream — $71 if your skin is dry, tight or flaking by evening.
F20 Rose Ceramide Barrier Cream — $71 if it isn't.
At night, if you'd like it to do more: F109 When I Dream Night Cream (from $125), when your skin does most of its repair anyway.
You're not choosing which is better. You're choosing which is you.
Around $191. If you'd rather begin with one thing, begin with the serum.
How you apply it now counts for more
than what you apply.
Thinner skin is more easily dragged, creased and irritated. Nobody tells you this, so most people carry on with the technique they learned at thirty. These five things will do more for your results than swapping any product.
Don't stop at your jaw.
Your neck, your décolletage and the backs of your hands are thinner-skinned than your face, get just as much sun, and receive a fraction of the attention. For most women past sixty they're what actually shows — and the whole industry keeps selling face cream as though the face ended at the chin.
The good news is this costs you nothing. Whatever serum and cream you've just put on your face, carry it down. Neck, then décolletage, upward strokes, same gentle pressure. You don't need a separate product and I'm not going to sell you one.
Hands get washed constantly, so facial cream doesn't survive on them. F111 Hand Renewal Balm ($62) is built to stay put. Keep it by the sink rather than in a drawer — the one by the sink is the one that gets used.
F108, honestly described.
F108 The Renewal Accelerator Bio-Serum
If what you want is visible firmness and more even tone rather than comfort alone, this is the one that does it. It's the most concentrated formula I make, at 10% bakuchiol, and that concentration is exactly why it costs what it costs.
It layers under F3 rather than instead of it — F108 is the treatment serum, F3 stays on top as your root serum — and you use it morning and night. Bakuchiol is sun-protective rather than sun-sensitizing, so daylight is no reason to skip it.
It's also our best-selling product, which still surprises me given the price. People finish a bottle and order another.
And if you don't want it, you genuinely don't need it. The three products above are a complete routine. Plenty of women at this stage are perfectly happy there, and I'd never suggest otherwise.
Somewhere in between? F107 Peptide Power Lift Serum ($102) does more than hydration alone without the jump in price.
What's fair to expect, and when.
What clients often notice
"I had accepted how my skin was at this stage, but with consistent use, it's become stronger, more resilient, and noticeably improved."
— Cynthia, 63Formulated fresh. Never warehoused.
Most skincare is manufactured months, sometimes years, before it reaches a shelf — formulated to survive that wait rather than to perform at its peak. Live botanical actives degrade in storage, so the longer a formula sits, the less it can do by the time it reaches you.
We make in small batches every week and ship straight from the lab. Use it within three or four months of it arriving. That's the window where the actives are at their best, and it's also simply the point of buying it.
Before you start
"I started making my own skincare because I wanted to understand why some ingredients transformed the skin and others seemed to do very little. I don't believe great skincare is something you manufacture. I believe it's something you nurture."
Would you rather just ask me?
Tell me what your skin is doing and where you live, and I'll tell you where I'd start. There's no obligation attached to that and it's my favourite part of the job.