There are faster ways to make a face cream.

We deliberately don’t use them.

I formulated THE CREAM around skin longevity—not a temporary quick fix. I didn’t want a formula built primarily around water and inexpensive synthetic fillers designed to increase profit margins, fill a jar and give skin a superficial silky feel.

Longevity skincare leaves no room for wasted ingredients. Every ingredient had to have a reason for being there.

That philosophy became the foundation of THE CREAM—and the reason one of its most important components takes 30 full days, or 720 hours, to make.

We call it our proprietary Bio-TEA Ferment™ Elixir.

The long way, on purpose.

The Beginning

It Starts With Real Plants

We begin with pure organic green tea leaves, comfrey and a carefully selected blend of collagen-boosting, antioxidant-rich botanical herbs.

Plants are incredibly complex. They naturally contain phytonutrients, antioxidants, and lipids—but simply putting a drop or two of an extract into a formula isn’t the same thing as thoughtfully extracting what that plant has to offer.

We apply that same philosophy to THE CREAM.

We slowly extract oil-compatible, bioactive compounds from our botanicals—harvesting their plant chemistry into a concentrated, lipid-rich olive oil elixir.

The Chemistry

Why an Oil Infusion?

This is where the chemistry gets interesting.

Plants contain many different types of compounds. Some are water-soluble, while others are oil-soluble, or lipophilic—meaning they have an affinity for oils and fats.

We give our botanicals 30 full days to release their oil-compatible phytonutrients and bioactive compounds into a concentrated, nutrient-dense elixir.

The outermost layer of your skin contains an organized matrix of lipids—including ceramides, cholesterol and fatty acids—that plays an essential role in keeping moisture in and helping protect skin from the outside environment.

So instead of making water the star of THE CREAM, we create its botanical foundation in oil.

Plant biology meeting skin biology through formulation science.

Time Is an Ingredient

Why 720 Hours?

Because time is part of the process.

Our botanicals remain immersed in olive oil for 30 full days while the infusion develops.

Could we make THE CREAM faster?

Absolutely.

We choose not to.

Modern manufacturing often rewards efficiency.

We began with a different question:

Sometimes the answer is patience.

Denice’s Rule

Why I Don’t Put “Croutons” in My Skincare

I have a strange analogy for the way I formulate skincare.

I don’t put croutons on my salad.

Why?

Croutons add flavor, crunch and texture, but relatively little nutritional value. No doctor ever said, “Your immune system is weak, your adrenals are shot and you have inflammation—I need you to eat more croutons.”

Nope.

We eat salads because, yes, they’re delicious—but we also want to nourish our bodies. So I’d rather use that space for something nutrient-dense, like pine nuts or garbanzo beans.

You can find more of my nutritional swaps and tips in my bestselling book, Naturally Skinny My A$&!

A conventional moisturizer can contain a large amount of water along with silicones, acrylate polymers, petrolatum and other ingredients used to create slip, occlusion, texture or an immediately smooth skin feel.

Those ingredients can certainly make skin feel smooth.

But that wasn’t enough for me.

I wanted THE CREAM concentrated with ingredients selected as part of our skin-longevity philosophy—not synthetic fillers chosen primarily for texture, slip or manufacturing convenience.

That’s why THE CREAM is formulated without silicones, microplastics, petroleum-derived fillers, synthetic dyes or synthetic fragrance.

Nature Is Chemistry

Plant Biology Meets Skin Science

Somewhere along the way, the word “natural” started being treated as though it meant less scientific.

Myth.

Nature is chemistry. Plants are chemistry.

Human beings have been looking to nature for biologically active compounds for thousands of years. And modern science continues to investigate the extraordinary chemistry found in plants, fungi, algae and microorganisms.

Nature and science have never been opposites.

Nature has repeatedly given science a place to start.

The same principle applies when we look at plants through the lens of modern cosmetic chemistry.

Plants contain an extraordinary range of compounds—including polyphenols, flavonoids, fatty acids, amino acids, sugars and polysaccharides, proteins and peptides.

Plant proteins and peptides are another area of scientific interest. Peptides aren’t inherently “synthetic” simply because we associate that word with a laboratory.

And conversely, don’t dismiss an ingredient because its origin is botanical.

That’s the thinking behind Bio-TEA Ferment™.

Understanding the biology of a plant and intelligently applying its chemistry to skincare IS science.

We combine that concentrated botanical foundation with carefully selected antioxidants, peptides and nutrient-rich plant oils.

Together, these ingredients build upon the botanical foundation of our Bio-TEA Ferment™ Elixir.

Proof Matters

Clean Science Has to Prove Itself

There’s one more part of our philosophy that matters tremendously to me.

Ingredient theory isn’t enough.

The finished formula matters.

That’s why THE CREAM is a clinically tested formula and dermatologist approved.

In our consumer study:

And it’s what I mean when I talk about:

Longevity skincare powered by clean science.

The Long Game

The Most Important Ingredient May Be Time.

We could make skincare a faster way.

But that isn’t why I created THE CREAM.

I created it for the long game.

Because AGING IS AN HONOR™, and the skin you’re caring for today is the skin you’re going to live in tomorrow.

So we take the time.

All 720 hours of it.

The long way, on purpose.