The science
Skin is living tissue.
Everything we make, explained down to the particle.
Our position
Much of luxury skincare is designed around what happens on top of your skin. It coats the surface, creates temporary softness and leaves behind a polished sheen that can feel expensive without necessarily doing very much. Skin Beautiful MD begins with a different idea: skin is not simply a surface to cover. It is living tissue, with multiple layers, each performing a different job.
That means the goal is not to force every ingredient as deeply as possible. It is to formulate each ingredient so it can work where the skin can actually use it. Squalane replenishes the natural softness of the outer barrier. Hyaluronic acid holds water in the upper layers, where dryness and fine lines first become visible. Properly formulated vitamin C supports a brighter, more even look. Antioxidants such as CoQ10 and vitamin E care for skin under daily stress. Peptides support a smoother, firmer, more resilient appearance. Each ingredient has a destination. Each ingredient has a job.
The result does not depend on a heavy film to make skin feel temporarily improved. It works with the structure of your skin: helping it hold moisture, replenish essential lipids and keep the smoothness, firmness and radiance that healthy-looking skin produces naturally.
Because there is a difference between coating your skin and caring for it. Skincare should do more than sit there. It should work with your skin, on the face you wake up with.
Science you can read.
Most brands hide their formulas behind marketing names. We do the opposite. Here is how to read ours.
Named, not hidden.
Every active in these formulas is named on this page: Argireline, Pentavitin, Trylagen. Search any of them: they have lives in the scientific literature, not just in our copy.
Working concentrations.
An ingredient earns its place on a label at a level where it can do its work: vitamin C at a full 5%, actives used the way their labs intended, not sprinkled for the ingredient list.
Sourced, and cite-able.
Each active below carries its sources: the published research behind it, linked. What you find when you look is the reason it's in the jar.
The formulas · 01
Day & Night Ageless Cream
One rich cream for both ends of the day, built on five named actives from labs in Barcelona, Basel and Germany. Its home ground is night, the hours when skin does its quiet work, and its job is simple: smoother, firmer-looking skin, morning after morning.
A pharmaceutical-grade peptide developed in Barcelona and applied where the face folds: the forehead, the space between the brows. One of the most studied cosmetic peptides of the past two decades, used here to soften the look of expression lines.
Sources: Blanes-Mira et al., Int J Cosmet Sci (2002) · Argireline® · Lubrizol
Coenzyme Q10, a molecule your cells use in making energy, blended with vitamin E in a squalane base. Topically, a classic antioxidant pairing for skin that looks even, toned and cared for.
Sources: Knott et al., BioFactors (2015) · Lipogard® · dsm-firmenich
A plant-derived saccharide with an unusual talent: it binds to keratin, the protein that forms the surface of your skin, and holds moisture exactly there. Softness that lasts through the day, not just past the moment of application.
Sources: J Dermatolog Treat, randomized split-face study (2025) · Pentavitin® · dsm-firmenich
A Barcelona-built complex of peptides and proteins designed around collagen, the scaffolding the look of firmness depends on. In the jar to support a denser, bouncier look as skin renews on its own schedule.
Sources: Puig et al., Int J Cosmet Sci (2008) · Trylagen® PCB · Lubrizol
A beta-glucan is a sugar found in oats and yeasts, and one of the most studied comforters in skincare. Here so a hard-working formula still feels calm and comfortable on the skin, morning and night.
The formulas · 02
Citrus Stem Cell Miracle
The morning step: plant stem-cell technology from Barcelona with a working 5% of vitamin C, scented by nothing but its own Caribbean orange oil. For brighter, firmer-looking skin and a more even-looking tone.
The best-known antioxidant in skincare, at a concentration that earns its place on the label. It supports a radiant, more even-looking tone, which is why this formula opens the morning routine, under SPF.
Plant stem cells cultured from orange, developed by a Barcelona laboratory. In supplier research, associated with a more organized-looking skin surface: the bounce you notice before you can name it.
Source: Trehan et al., Future Sci OA (2017), plant stem cells in cosmetics
Straight from the fruit, with nothing synthetic layered over it. The formula smells like what it is made of, which is why this tends to be the step people say they look forward to.
The formulas · 03
Deep Moisturizer with Hyaluronic Acid
Hydration as infrastructure: hyaluronic acid with Ecocert-standard moisture binders, squalane, chamomile and aloe. A 2 oz jar made for face or body, anywhere skin feels tight.
A sugar molecule your skin already makes, famous for holding many times its own weight in water. It's here for the plump, rested look that hydration gives: a strong teammate in this formula, not a magic bullet.
Source: Papakonstantinou et al., Dermato-Endocrinology (2012)
A pair of water-management peptides of natural origin: one chosen to help move moisture toward the surface layers where dryness shows first, one to bind it there. Both meet the Ecocert standard for natural-origin cosmetics.
A skin-identical lipid: your skin makes squalene naturally, and makes less of it with every decade. Replenished topically, it reads as softness, and it's why this gel-cream feels cushiony instead of watery.
Two of the oldest soothers in the book, both certified organic here. They are part of why a deeply hydrating formula stays gentle enough for face, neck, hands, anywhere.
A multivitamin layer finishing the formula. B3 (niacinamide) and B5 (panthenol) are among the most studied skin vitamins in the cosmetic literature, prized for how skin looks and feels when it's well supplied.
The horizon
Where our science points.
Every formula above stands on what it contains today. But the questions behind this company go further: what conditions does living tissue actually need to keep renewing itself, and what is modern skincare forgetting to provide?
We work on those questions with Ben Knight Fuchs, R.Ph., a compounding pharmacist who has formulated for skin for more than three decades. His research direction is where our next formulas are pointed: minerals, cellular signaling, the quiet electricity of living tissue.
“You've been diligently providing your skin with all the necessary building blocks: the chemistry, the ingredients. What you're overlooking is the energy source that's critical for them to function effectively.”
A research direction, shared as a conversation, not a claim about the formulas above.
Now read the jars.
The core formulas. Every active named.
