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ROOTED — S2:E7 | Skin at Every Age: Botanical Intelligence Across the Decades

ROOTED — S2:E7 | Skin at Every Age: Botanical I...

The industry calibrates every formula for an imagined twenty-eight-year-old. Your skin has been changing since the day you were born — here is what actually happens in each decade, and...

ROOTED — S2:E7 | Skin at Every Age: Botanical I...

The industry calibrates every formula for an imagined twenty-eight-year-old. Your skin has been changing since the day you were born — here is what actually happens in each decade, and...

ROOTED — S2:E6 | Where Botanicals Come From: A Sourcing Story

ROOTED — S2:E6 | Where Botanicals Come From: A ...

Between a Chilean hillside and your bathroom there are a dozen decisions that determine whether a botanical is genuinely effective or merely claimed to be. Quality isn't a claim —...

ROOTED — S2:E6 | Where Botanicals Come From: A ...

Between a Chilean hillside and your bathroom there are a dozen decisions that determine whether a botanical is genuinely effective or merely claimed to be. Quality isn't a claim —...

ROOTED — S2:E5 | Ancient Alchemy: How Fermentation Is Changing Skincare

ROOTED — S2:E5 | Ancient Alchemy: How Fermentat...

Bread, wine, miso, makgeolli — the oldest biotechnology in the world. What fermentation does to a botanical makes it a genuinely different ingredient, and the label should tell you which...

ROOTED — S2:E5 | Ancient Alchemy: How Fermentat...

Bread, wine, miso, makgeolli — the oldest biotechnology in the world. What fermentation does to a botanical makes it a genuinely different ingredient, and the label should tell you which...

ROOTED — S2:E4 | Behind the Formula: How an Acquavena Product Is Born

ROOTED — S2:E4 | Behind the Formula: How an Acq...

Eighteen months, a non-negotiable ingredient list, and a prototype that came out the color of marmalade. What botanical formulation actually looks like — including the parts that didn't work.

ROOTED — S2:E4 | Behind the Formula: How an Acq...

Eighteen months, a non-negotiable ingredient list, and a prototype that came out the color of marmalade. What botanical formulation actually looks like — including the parts that didn't work.

ROOTED — S2:E3 | The Fragrance Problem: What Your Perfume Is Actually Doing

ROOTED — S2:E3 | The Fragrance Problem: What Yo...

One word on your ingredient label is legally permitted to conceal hundreds of undisclosed chemical compounds. It is on almost everything in your bathroom right now.

ROOTED — S2:E3 | The Fragrance Problem: What Yo...

One word on your ingredient label is legally permitted to conceal hundreds of undisclosed chemical compounds. It is on almost everything in your bathroom right now.

ROOTED — S2:E2 | The Fungal Frontier: What Mushrooms Are Actually Doing for Your Skin

ROOTED — S2:E2 | The Fungal Frontier: What Mush...

Five mushrooms, five forests, and the chemistry each one evolved to survive there. Meet them the way a forager would — habitat first, then what they actually do for skin.

ROOTED — S2:E2 | The Fungal Frontier: What Mush...

Five mushrooms, five forests, and the chemistry each one evolved to survive there. Meet them the way a forager would — habitat first, then what they actually do for skin.