A podcast from Acquavena Organics

Rooted

Some things grow better when they're close to the earth. Your skin is one of them.

Rooted is for people who want to understand what they're putting on their skin, and why it matters. Each episode takes one question seriously, follows it into the botany and the chemistry, and comes back with something you can actually use.

Hosted by Jeff Lindh. New episodes every two weeks.

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

Skin at Every Age: Botanical Intelligence Across the Decades

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...

September 13, 2026
ROOTED — S2:E6 | Where Botanicals Come From: A Sourcing Story
S2:E6

Where Botanicals Come From: A Sourcing Story

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...

August 30, 2026
ROOTED — S2:E5 | Ancient Alchemy: How Fermentation Is Changing Skincare
S2:E5

Ancient Alchemy: How Fermentation Is Changing Skincare

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...

August 16, 2026
ROOTED — S2:E4 | Behind the Formula: How an Acquavena Product Is Born
S2:E4

Behind the Formula: How an Acquavena Product Is Born

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...

August 2, 2026
ROOTED — S2:E3 | The Fragrance Problem: What Your Perfume Is Actually Doing
S2:E3

The Fragrance Problem: What Your Perfume Is Actually Doing

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.

July 19, 2026
ROOTED — S2:E2 | The Fungal Frontier: What Mushrooms Are Actually Doing for Your Skin
S2:E2

The Fungal Frontier: What Mushrooms Are Actually Doing for Your Skin

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...

July 5, 2026
ROOTED — S2:E1 | Your Skin and Your Gut: The Inflammation Connection
S2:E1

Your Skin and Your Gut: The Inflammation Connection

Rosina never separated what went into the body from what went onto it. Modern research on the gut-skin axis suggests she was right — and that...

June 21, 2026

Season One

Where it started. Seven episodes on what Rosina knew.

Why this show exists

Most skincare content is written to sell something. This one is written to explain something, which turns out to be a different job.

Rosina Quadracci never had a laboratory. She had a lifetime of attention, and a village in southern Italy where foraging wasn't a practice, it was just how you got through the year. Acquavena Organics is built on what she knew. Rooted is where we check that knowledge against what the research actually says, including the episodes where the research disagrees with us.

Episodes run 10 to 26 minutes. No guest fluff, no sponsor reads, no miracle ingredients.

The formulas behind the conversations

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