Your mom gave you more than your eyes, your hands….

She gave you her skin.

Not just the surface. The living part. The part we don’t see.

From the moment you were born, you were covered in her biology. Held against her chest, pressed into her arms, you inherited an entire ecosystem. Bacteria, fungi, everything that makes skin function like skin.

It’s intimate in a way we don’t really talk about.

You are, quite literally, carrying her with you.

And inside that inheritance are demodex mites.

I know. Not the most romantic detail. Stay with me here...

They live in your follicles. They’ve likely been there your whole life. They came from her,

They’re not an issue. They’re part of the system.

What’s actually wild is how well this system works when it’s left alone.

Skin regulates itself. It knows how to shed, how to rebuild, how to stay in rhythm with everything living on it. There’s a constant conversation happening, and when it’s intact, you don’t notice it.

You only notice when it breaks.

And most of the time, we’re the ones who break it.

We scrub. We strip. We chase that tight feeling because we were taught that’s what clean is supposed to feel like. We have glass skin as a beauty standard.. 

But that tightness is the system falling apart in real time.

The skin shifts. Oil production ramps up. The chemistry changes. The environment becomes unstable.

And suddenly the things that were always there start to feel like a problem.

Texture shows up. Redness is constant. The skin looks inflamed. 

So we go harder.

More actives. More exfoliation. 

But nothing settles, because the issue was never something to remove.

It was something to protect.

When I see this in the treatment room, I’m not trying to fix the skin. I’m trying to give it back what it already knows how to do.

I simplify everything.

A cleanser that doesn’t interfere with pH. Like the Balancing Oil Cleanser or Essential Enzymes to rebuild what’s been stripped away.
Hydrosols that bring the skin back into its natural immunity.
A moisturizer that's purpose is to support, like Daily Face Cream. 
And zinc helps the skin regulate again. 

Because your skin is inherited. It’s been in relationship with the world since the moment you arrived.

Your mom gave you your ecosystem.

That’s something to take care of.

With love,
Justine