We worked hard to help your skin and hair stay healthy. Now it’s time to say goodbye.

Over the last twenty years, we have worked hard at Skin Actives to ensure that your skin and hair can reap the benefits.

What did we achieve? It’s pretty incredible.

We created new ingredients and incorporated them into new products in record time. 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 managed 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 pushed 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 avoided unnecessary fragrances because they can be allergenic and fulfill no helpful 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 didn’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.

Epidermal growth factor

Keratinocyte growth factor

Antioxidant proteins

NMF emulator

Advanced Ageless ELS

A beautiful, super-active synthetic human superoxide dismutase.

Bee defensin-1

Kefir bioferment

Granulysin

and many more

What we offered 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 could improve any skin care product by adding actives that some famous companies have yet to incorporate into their formulations.

To all our friends, clients, and fans (we have many!)

Thank you for all your support. We will miss you.

Hannah

References

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Jacob SE, Castanedo-Tardan MP (2008) A diagnostic pearl in allergic contact dermatitis to fragrances: the atomizer sign. Cutis 82(5):317–318

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.