Blog Posts
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 ...
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 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 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 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 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.