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What are pharmaceutical grade ingredients and do you use them in your products?
The term “pharmaceutical grade” refers to a very high purity standard for an ingredient (it does not mean the ingredient itself is a pharmaceutical drug). Many kinds of ingredients can be extracted and purified in such a way as to attain a pharmaceutical grade rating, including natural ingredients like botanical extracts and isolated compounds from plants. We use high-quality, pharmaceutical grade ingredients in our products.
Do you use organic ingredients in your products?
Yes, we use organic extracts as well as compounds isolated from organic botanicals in our products.
Why have you devoted your company to using natural and organic ingredients?
We began in part as a response to the skincare industry's lack of truly beneficial, effective, and safe formulas. The vast majority of products on the market contain harmful ingredients mixed in with beneficial ones, and this is unacceptable. We aren’t devoted to using just natural ingredients, we’re devoted to using the right natural ingredients. Just because a skincare line claims to have natural products, doesn’t mean that it’s going to be completely effective, or even good for your skin. There are many substances in nature that are dangerous and harmful to the skin. Likewise, there are some plant extracts that are beneficial only in their organic form (since conventional, non-organic farming can yield plants with few phytonutrients and traces of herbicides/pesticides). We aim to select those natural ingredients that have not only been demonstrated in clinical studies to have dramatic, lasting benefits when topically applied but, when available, the organic versions of these ingredients.
What is the difference between “serums” and “complexes”?
Our serums are aqueous solutions (similar to a thin, weightless gel) that are the ideal consistency for the deliverability of certain active ingredients into the skin. For this reason the core treatment products in our line are serums. Our complexes are liquid-crèmes (similar to a lotion in consistency but with the benefits of a full crème) that are an ideal delivery system for moisturizing and lipid-soluble actives ingredients. The emulsion complexes in our line have a highly protective capacity, as they are able to form both moisturizing and UV-shielding barriers that protect the underlying epidermal layers. They also can actually push the active compounds of aqueous serum products deeper into the skin when applied last, enhancing the overall effectiveness of each. |
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