Emerald Calming Botanical Oil
Instantly soothe redness and balance oil production.
Emerald Clear Skin
You don’t need another harsh chemical acid. Stripping your skin with aggressive acne treatments destroys your natural barrier, trapping you in a never-ending cycle of fiery redness, sensitivity, and recurring breakouts. Break the cycle. Calm the inflammation, starve the bacteria, and rebuild your barrier with pure marine botanicals.
We’ve been taught a very toxic lie about skincare: if you have a breakout, you need to ‘burn’ it away.
Think about your current routine. Every time you use harsh chemical acids, drying foams, or spot treatments, you are practicing a ‘scorched earth’ approach. You might be temporarily drying out a blemish, but you are completely destroying your skin’s protective lipid barrier in the process.
Imagine treating a sunburn with sandpaper. That is exactly what harsh acids do to inflamed skin. When your barrier is stripped, your skin goes into a state of pure panic. It becomes hot, visibly red, and hyper-sensitive. Worse, it triggers your pores to overproduce oil to overcompensate, trapping you in an endless, frustrating cycle of fiery breakouts and stinging redness.
Your skin isn’t rebelling against you. That redness is its ‘check engine’ light. It is begging for relief.
To break the cycle of redness and breakouts, you don’t need a stronger acid. You need a botanical reset.
Enter Emerald. Instead of stripping your skin, we formulated a soothing, 100% waterless rescue oil powered by two of nature’s most profound healers: Blue Tansy and oil-extracted Chlorella algae.
The Blue Tansy acts as an instant botanical fire extinguisher. It is rich in a rare compound called chamazulene—which gives the oil its deep blue color—that immediately cools heat, soothes irritation, and drastically reduces visible redness on contact.
At the exact same time, the Chlorella Algae goes to work. Because we use an oil-extraction method, we capture the pure, lipid-soluble Chlorophyll from the algae. Chlorophyll is nature’s ultimate detoxifier. It naturally starves acne-causing bacteria without drying out your skin, while flooding your broken barrier with the repairing vitamins it needs to heal.
No burning. No stinging. Just cool, radical relief.
Dr. Dendy Engelman
Board-Certified Cosmetic Dermatologist & Mohs Surgeon — Shafer Clinic, New York City
“Blue tansy helps clarify the complexion and reduce redness in irritated skin without over-drying, and it’s great for acne-prone skin because it can clear congested pores and eliminate bacteria that causes pimples.”
Traditional acne treatments rely on harsh drying agents suspended in water and synthetic preservatives. When you apply these to a breakout, they strip away your skin’s natural lipid barrier. The result? Your skin becomes hot, red, and irritated. Worse, your skin panics and overproduces oil to compensate, while your broken barrier is left completely defenseless against the next wave of acne-causing bacteria.
To clear your skin, you have to turn off the alarm bells. Emerald is formulated with oil-extracted Chlorella and Blue Tansy to act as a cooling, antimicrobial blanket. Because our biomimetic base perfectly matches your skin’s natural sebum, it absorbs instantly without clogging a single pore, delivering deep, repairing hydration that tells your skin it is finally safe to heal.
Reactive skin doesn’t need another harsh active. It doesn’t need a six-step routine built on stripping acids, alcohol-laden toners, or synthetic preservatives that stoke the very inflammation you’re trying to resolve. What it needs is what it was designed to recognize — biocompatible, barrier-identical nourishment that tells your skin it is finally safe to stop fighting and start healing. Marine botanicals deliver exactly that: a living matrix of antimicrobials, essential fatty acids, and cellular repair compounds that mirror your skin’s own sebum. No burning. No barrier destruction. Just deep, intelligent calm.
Why marine botanicals?
Most acne brands use synthetic antibacterials and drying agents produced in industrial labs — molecules that obliterate bacteria by obliterating everything else, including your protective lipid barrier. Marine botanicals are different. Blue Tansy and oil-extracted Chlorella evolved over millions of years in some of the most volatile aquatic environments on earth. When we formulate with them, we’re not forcing your skin to adapt to a foreign chemical. We’re giving it back the kind of nourishment evolution already designed it to receive.
Waterless Blue Tansy & Chlorella in a biomimetic squalane–jojoba base. Instant redness relief, zero pore-clogging.
Rich kokum butter & squalane balm fortified with Chlorella. Deep overnight barrier lock-in, zero sting.
Water-soluble Chlorella amino acids & Rose Water Activator. Floods pores with healing proteins and creates the perfect canvas for Emerald Oil.
Why does your current skincare sting when you apply it? Because the first ingredient is water, which means the brand had to use harsh synthetic preservatives and alcohols to keep it from growing mold on the shelf. We removed the water entirely. Every drop of Emerald is purely active botanical power. No fillers. No stinging alcohols. Just 100% natural, biome-friendly chemistry designed specifically for highly reactive skin.
Contains chamazulene, a wildly powerful anti-inflammatory compound that rapidly reduces visible redness, heat, and irritation on contact.
Farm-to-Face
For a long time, we couldn’t find what we were looking for. There were harsh prescription treatments on one side, and feel-good natural products with little science behind them on the other. Nothing in between — especially not for sensitive skin.
So we did the research ourselves.
My wife has always been passionate about skincare — the rituals, the ingredients, what actually works and why. I came at it from a different angle. I’d struggled with acne most of my life, and I’d also become fascinated with microalgae — not just as an ingredient, but as one of the most important organisms on the planet. The more scientists study it, the clearer it becomes: algae is going to play a significant role in how humans live and eat sustainably. That felt worth paying attention to.
When we started combining those two interests — her deep knowledge of what skin actually needs, and my obsession with what algae is capable of — something clicked. We spent months researching, formulating, and testing on ourselves. What we discovered is that the skin doesn’t need more actives thrown at it. It needs ingredients that work with it, delivered in a way the skin already understands.
These products came out of that process. They’re what we actually use. Every morning, the two of us still do our skincare rituals together — and that hasn’t changed since the beginning.