Stark Skincare

25/12/2025

Retinol and acids both increase cell turnover, so using them together can overwhelm your skin. It's like asking someone to run two marathons simultaneously. Have you ever over-treated your skin accidentally?

25/12/2025

25/12/2025

Antioxidants are pretty much they key ingredient in most Stark products as they are essential to help skin protect from environmental damage, and are beneficial to all skin types and concerns, especially aging gracefully, and soothing acne.

Simply put, they are ingredients that help slow the process of oxidation: the slow decay that unstable molecules do to literally everything (think of rust or a cut apple turning brown).

Basically, oxidation takes place within the human body as a completely natural, but somewhat mitigatable, process that leads to disease and inflammation, and the same is true for your skin. Antioxidants neutralize the "scavenger", "free-radical", super-unstable molecules, making them unable to damage healthy cells while trying to pilfer the stability they crave (wow, sounds like a weird clingy, anxious relationship.) ⁠

Within the body, the best antioxidants come from a diet rich in fruits and vegetables, but on the body, ie your skin, you need to supplement with topical antioxidants. Your skin loves tons of antioxidants (it can handle supplementation better than the inside of your body, that prefers to get it from food rather than supplements, but that's a whole other topic I am not qualified to talk about!). Topical antioxidants have had a lot of studies behind them⁠

Some of Stark's favourite antioxidants are ferulic acid (found in City and in Petrichor), vitamin C in City, Elderberry extract in City and Midnight, the seed oils we use (antioxidant level is a key factor to choice), and so on!

Do you consider antioxidants when choosing your skincare?

25/12/2025

You completely missed out on last month's drama and excitement! Let's remedy that right now:

Made in Canada | Face Serums, Cleansing Balms & More | Botanical Antioxidant Skincare | Helping skin become more resilient to changing environments.

24/12/2025

Pimple patches cost $40 for 8 uses. This botanical spot treatment costs less and lasts years. Neem, h**p, and rosehip oils actually heal while they fight inflammation. Your face will thank you.
https://starkskincare.com/products/eteint-spot-treatment

Targeted Relief: Botanical Power for Stubborn Blemishes Eteint is a concentrated spot treatment formulated with botanical oils to address blemishes directly at the source.

23/12/2025

One of these is from a billion-dollar corporation. The other is handmade in Canada by one woman since 2011.
Same price point. Wildly different standards.
Their formula: safflower oil (the cheapest oil on the market), synthetic fillers, and polyethylene. That's it. That's the whole list. This costs them maybe sixty cents to make.
Contrast that to Stark's Aurora: pumpkin seed oil, kokum butter, cocoa butter, mango butter, tucuma butter, green tea seed oil, seabuckthorn, carrot root extract. Ingredients you recognize. Ingredients you actually want on your face.
I've been making this balm since 2011. No reformulations to cut costs. No shareholders to answer to. Just small batches, made by hand, because that's the only way I'd want to do it.
14 years later, Aurora is still our bestseller. Customers who've been using it since the beginning keep coming back because nothing else compares.
You're already spending the money. You might as well know what you're getting.

Made in Canada | Face Serums, Cleansing Balms & More | Botanical Antioxidant Skincare | Helping skin become more resilient to changing environments.

23/12/2025

So tired of this honestly.

23/12/2025

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Made in Canada | Face Serums, Cleansing Balms & More | Botanical Antioxidant Skincare | Helping skin become more resilient to changing environments.