Keys® Natural Skin Solutions
The Natural Skincare Solutions Podcast
“Tips for Chemical-Free Natural Organic Skin Health”
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94 episodes
Why Keys Exists — The Intersection of Clean and Clinical
“Why Keys Exists — The Intersection of Clean and Clinical”I want to take a minute and talk about why we built Keys the way we did — because I think it matters to understand the philosophy behind the products.When I started this ...
What’s Actually in Your Eye Cream — And What Should Be
“What’s Actually in Your Eye Cream — And What Should Be”Here’s something worth knowing if you’ve ever bought an eye cream. Turn it over. Read the ingredients. Most of what you’ll find is water, glycerin, maybe some peptides in trace amo...
Born on a Sailboat — Windsurfer Soap
“Born on a Sailboat — Windsurfer Soap”Hey, its Bob. Windsurfer Soap has one of my favorite origin stories in our whole lineup. Our America’s Cup sailboat racing team needed a soap that could do something no conventional soa...
Chemical-Free Skin Health Chapter 13: Microbiology and Natural Products & Closing Thoughts
Chemical-Free Skin Health Chapter 13: Microbiology and Natural ProductsNow, if you remove parabens and aggressive preservatives from products, that does not mean the story becomes simple. In fact, it introduces a new challenge, a...
Chemical-Free Skin Health Chapter 12: My Two Worst Public Enemies — Triclosan and Parabens
Chemical-Free Skin Health Chapter 12: My Two Worst Public Enemies — Triclosan and ParabensIf you asked me to name the ingredients that concerned me most when I wrote this book, two would rise quickly to the top: triclosan and parabens. ...
Chemical-Free Skin Health Chapter 11: Scary Chemicals and the Dirty Dozen
Chemical-Free Skin Health Chapter 11: Scary Chemicals and the Dirty DozenAt some point, every conversation about safer personal care turns toward ingredients of concern. People want lists. They want names. They want to know what to avoi...
Chemical-Free Skin Health Chapter 10: Who’s Right?
Chemical-Free Skin Health Chapter 10: Who’s Right?If you spend any real time researching skincare, cosmetics, safety, ingredients, preservatives, natural products, or controversial ingredients, you quickly run into a wall of opinions. S...
Chemical-Free Skin Health Chapter 9: Greenwashing
Chemical-Free Skin Health Chapter 9: GreenwashingOne of the things that started driving me crazy was watching conventional brands suddenly discover the language of green marketing. Almost overnight, companies that had spent years defend...
Chemical-Free Skin Health Chapter 8: Safer Personal Care Products — A Real Challenge
Chemical-Free Skin Health Chapter 8: Safer Personal Care Products — A Real ChallengeBy the time I got deeper into the personal care industry, I realized something that surprised me. I had expected makeup to be the most concerning catego...
Chemical-Free Skin Health Chapter 7: Sun, Aging, and the Truth Hiding in Plain Sight
Chemical-Free Skin Health Chapter 7: Sun, Aging, and the Truth Hiding in Plain SightIf there is one subject in skin health that I wish more people would take seriously earlier in life, it is sun exposure. We spend enormous money, energy...
Chemical-Free Skin Health Chapter 6: The Tool Chest — You Become the Expert
Chemical-Free Skin Health Chapter 6: The Tool Chest — You Become the ExpertIf I had to pick one chapter in this part of the book that feels most immediately practical, it would be this one. Because once you realize the system is complic...
Chemical-Free Skin Health Chapter 5: Chemicals in Our Products — The Beginnings
Chemical-Free Skin Health Chapter 5: Chemicals in Our Products — The BeginningsOne of the things that kept bothering me was how many people seemed to think synthetic chemical-heavy personal care products had always been the norm. That s...
Chemical-Free Skin Health Chapter 4: Skin Game or Skin Health
Chemical-Free Skin Health Chapter 4: Skin Game or Skin HealthWhen we talk about skin, most people immediately think of appearance. They think of beauty, youth, smoothness, glow, blemishes, wrinkles. But for me, skin is not just about ap...
Chemical-Free Skin Health Chapter 3: Safety and Doing No Harm
Chemical-Free Skin Health Chapter 3: Safety and Doing No HarmThe word safety sounds simple, but the more I thought about it, the more complicated it became. Safety means different things to different people. For some people it means sec...
Chemical-Free Skin Health Chapter 2: Unqualified Except for Weird Science
Chemical-Free Skin Health Chapter 2: Unqualified Except for Weird ScienceIn this chapter, I want to tell you a little more about me, because if you’re going to spend time with my ideas, it probably helps to know how my mind works. Fair ...
Chemical-Free Skin Health Chapter 1: The Big C — How I Became an Unlikely Formulator
Chemical-Free Skin Health Chapter 1: The Big C — How I Became an Unlikely FormulatorIf you had told me years ago that I would someday be formulating skincare products and writing a book about skin health, I would have laughed. I was not...
Your Body’s Skin Ages Too — Nextra Body
“Your Body’s Skin Ages Too — Nextra Body”Hey its Bob.I want to make a simple point that most anti-aging skincare brands completely ignore. Your face is about three percent of your total skin surface. The other ninety-seven perce...
The Sun Defense That Heals While It Protects — Luminos PLUS
“The Sun Defense That Heals While It Protects — Luminos PLUS”Its Bob.Most people don’t know that there are only two FDA-recognized mineral UV filters — zinc oxide and titanium dioxide. Of those two, only zinc oxide is classified...
Neem Power in a Spray — RediCare
“Neem Power in a Spray — RediCare”Bob here.If you’ve ever tried to apply a lotion to a sunburned back, you know the problem. You either can’t reach, or touching the skin hurts, or you end up with a very uneven situation. That sa...
Seven Oils, One Mission — Keys Reflex ProBiome
“Seven Oils, One Mission — Keys Reflex ProBiome”Hey, its Bob.I spent four years designing and formulating Reflex ProBiome. Four years. And the reason it took that long is because the governing principle was so precise: we would ...
What Real Deep Moisturizing Actually Looks Like — Tortuga
“What Real Deep Moisturizing Actually Looks Like — Tortuga”Bob here. Here’s a test I want you to try. Pick up your current body lotion and read the ingredient label. Odds are the first ingredient is water which is quite nor...
Chemical-Free Skin Health Chapter 8: Safer Personal Care Products — A Real Challenge
Chemical-Free Skin Health Chapter 8: Safer Personal Care Products — A Real ChallengeBy the time I got deeper into the personal care industry, I realized something that surprised me. I had expected makeup to be the most concerning catego...
Everything Vaseline Does, Avocado Does Better — AvoJel
“Everything Vaseline Does, Avocado Does Better — AvoJel”Its Bob! Okay, let’s talk about petroleum jelly. It’s been in medicine cabinets for over 150 years. It works, right? It forms an occlusive barrier, locks in moisture, protects dama...