Performance without irritation.
Ceramide barrier systems, built to be tolerated.
Sensitive-skin formulation has to do two things at once: feel calm enough to use every day, and perform enough to matter. We build ceramide, lipid, and lipid-identical systems with stability, sensory elegance, tolerance, and claim discipline designed in from the first submission, cosmetic or OTC, depending on what the product is meant to do. We are confident in our OTC capabilities in this category.
What We Formulate
- Ceramide, lipid, and lipid-identical systems: built around ingredients that support the look and feel of a healthy skin barrier.
- Low-irritation emulsions: prestige textures engineered for sensitive, reactive, or stressed-looking skin, without leaning on harsh, irritation-first shortcuts.
- Minimal, well-tolerated systems: low sensitizer load, fragrance-free where the brief allows, built to perform without overwhelming the skin.
- Formats: barrier creams, ceramide systems, calming serums, comfort-focused treatments, moisturizers, and recovery-positioned skincare.
- OTC capability: for products genuinely meant to treat a condition, eczema, dermatitis, built and labeled to the applicable OTC path.
Why This Category Is Hard
The category forces a false choice: performance that irritates, or comfort that underdelivers. Consumers feel it, and they abandon whatever makes them pick. Our work is refusing that tradeoff, finding the level and the system where a product performs and stays tolerable, so it actually gets used.
The ingredient list is only the beginning. Sensitive-skin products fail when the formula chases barrier ingredients but ignores the system around them.
Emulsifier choice, preservative strategy, pH, allergen load, ingredient compatibility, sensory feel, and stability over time all decide whether a formula is actually calm, and whether it stays that way at month six, not just on day one. The work is making it elegant, stable, and well-tolerated, all at once.
The Real Differentiator
The differentiator isn't the ingredient list, anyone can put ceramides on a label. It's the stability discipline behind the formula, and the proof under any claim you make on it.
Barrier repair depends on ceramides, fatty acids, and cholesterol in the ratio the barrier actually uses, not arbitrary levels dropped in for the ingredient deck. We formulate to that ratio.
Stability and tolerance work happen here, as part of how we make and release a formula. When a claim needs substantiation, barrier support, soothing, hydration over time, we map the proof plan to the claims you intend to make and run it through independent third-party labs, on your finished formula. The hard part isn't the ingredient, it's the system that keeps it stable, and the independent proof behind any claim you make on it.
Cosmetic or OTC: The Claim Lane
Most sensitive-skin products are cosmetic, and the honest claim there is about look and feel: supporting the appearance of a healthy barrier, the feel of calmer and more comfortable skin, visible relief from the look of dryness or redness.
“Treating” eczema or dermatitis is a drug claim, and a real capability of ours, handled through the OTC path with the right active, label, and testing. We keep the two apart on purpose: a cosmetic barrier cream supports how skin looks and feels; an OTC product treats a condition. Which one you're building decides the claims, the testing, and the words on the label.
Under One Owned Roof
Formulation, stability, regulatory coordination, and production stay under one owned US roof, with direct access to the chemists developing your product. Your formula and project data aren't brokered through an offshore network. When a claim needs proof, it's mapped to your finished formula and run through independent third-party labs.
Bring us the sensitive-skin product that has to perform without the sting.
A barrier hero, a calming system, a reformulation that lost its tolerance somewhere along the way, or an OTC eczema product that has to clear the regulatory bar, bring it, and we'll map what's feasible, what needs proof, and what it takes to scale it.