We worked hard (and are still working hard) to give your skin and hair a great New Year!
During the last twenty years, we have worked hard at Skin Actives so that your skin and hair can reap the benefits.
What did we achieve? It’s pretty amazing.
We created new ingredients, and in record time, we incorporated them into new products. This unique achievement is made possible by great logistics and effective formulation. In contrast, other companies may still advertise their products based on ingredients discovered in the 1970s.
It’s true that Skin Actives, after 20 years, still manages to be a “well-kept secret,” but that’s because other companies make big advertising splashes, for example, by adding putrescine to their formulations (and calling it fancy names) while we have been using polyamines for many years. We don’t make a big fuss. What for other companies merits press releases for us is “business as usual”: we use our understanding of science to benefit our clients.
We push hard to get scientific innovation from the scientific journals to your skin in record time. You may think that there is a contradiction between moving fast and safely. Not the way we do it. We don’t go for “new to your body (and to earth!)”, like using newly invented chemicals that don’t exist in nature. Instead, we go for well-studied, beneficial natural chemicals and bring them to you to supplement growth factors and nutrients that already exist in your body but decrease as you age.
At Skin Actives, we avoid unnecessary fragrances because they can be allergenic and fulfill no useful role in skincare except for making the product “smell expensive.” The product may look expensive because of the jar and smell, but fragrances can be very inexpensive ingredients because many of them are synthetic.
We don’t go for chemical novelty because it’s impossible to predict how the body will react to a new chemical; the immune system may go haywire. That’s what the immune system is supposed to do: reject what is foreign to the body. Recently, the industry has been innovating the wrong way: chemically modifying what is already in our bodies. Adding “flourishes” to chemicals that are fundamental to human physiology risks an undesirable reaction from the immune system.
Skin Actives Achievements
Let’s list some of our achievements, many of them “first” in the industry.
A beautiful, super-active synthetic human superoxide dismutase.
and many more
What we offer to Do it Yourself enthusiasts:
We produce or source hundreds of active ingredients at the highest purity, many unique to Skin Actives. Where else will you find apocynin, granulysin, xanthohumol, nobiletin, and larch arabinogalactans?
Thanks to Skin Actives, DIYers can improve any skin care product by adding actives that some famous companies have not incorporated yet into their formulations.
To all our friends, clients, and fans (we have many!)
Warmest wishes for 2024 of health, peace, happiness, and many new great Skin Actives products!
Hannah
References
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Sasseville, D.; Linda Moreau; Mowza Al-Sowaidi (2007). Allergic contact dermatitis to idebenone used as an antioxidant in an anti-wrinkle cream. Contact Dermatitis, 56(2), 117–118. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0536.2007.00955.x
Saxena M, Warshaw E, Ahmed DD. Eyelid allergic contact dermatitis to black iron oxide. Am J Contact Dermat. 2001 Mar;12(1):38-9. doi: 10.1053/ajcd.2000.18398. PMID: 11244140.
Zirwas MJ. (2019) Contact Dermatitis to Cosmetics. Clin Rev Allergy Immunol. 56(1):119-128. doi: 10.1007/s12016-018-8717-9. PMID: 30421329.