Nervous System Skincare™
The half second
before you touch
your own skin.
You already know how it is going to go, so you brace, and you go fast. We formulate by subtraction, with every ingredient named on the jar.
Keep going
You have a drawer of things
that said gentle on the
front.
You used most of them once. A few of them twice, because you wanted to be wrong about it. You read the back of the bottle now, not the front.
You know the weeks it shows on your face. The cream that suited you in June runs warm in September. Your jaw is tight by four in the afternoon. Your cheeks are still flushed at bedtime.
Here, all of that counts for something.
None of that was you being difficult.
You read the list first.
So here is a whole one,
before you ask.
This is The Gentle Balm, printed the way it appears on the jar. Sixteen ingredients, in order, with the certifications marked. Nothing grouped, nothing shortened to fragrance, nothing left for you to work out.
The Gentle Balm · Full INCI
Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil*+^^, Butyrospermum Parkii (East African Nilotica Shea) Butter*, Garcinia Indica (Kokum) Seed Butter*, Squalane, Coco-Caprylate/Caprate, Vegetable Glycerin, Aqua (Water), Quillaja Saponaria Wood Extract, Calendula Officinalis Flower Extract CO2*, Crambe Abyssinica Seed Oil, Limnanthes Alba (Meadowfoam) Seed Oil, Saponaria Officinalis Leaf/Root Extract, Benzyl Alcohol****, Tocopherol, Dehydroacetic Acid****, Althaea Officinalis (Marshmallow) Root Extract.
Scroll the list. All sixteen are there.
*Organic +Ethically Sourced ^^Regeneratively Grown ****ECOCERT-certified
Every product page carries its full list this way. Left out on purpose is only worth saying if you can see what was left out. One more thing worth knowing before you try this one: calendula is in the Asteraceae family, so if you react to ragweed, patch test it carefully.
“I built Indiefog from inside that experience, while I was still in it.”
For years I lived in a body that reacted to almost everything. Chronic sensitivities, and a system that stayed on high alert. My skin rejected most of what I had been told was gentle.
So I became a clinical formulator. I studied physiology, and I studied the specific ways a system on high alert handles ingredients. Then I made the formulas I had been looking for and could not find.
My own reactivity has since gone quiet. The formulation standard stayed exactly where it was. These products were made for skin that cannot afford a mistake, and that is still who they are for.
If you are navigating chronic illness, MCAS, autoimmune disease, perimenopause, or a system that stays on high alert, you are the reason this brand exists. Indiefog belongs alongside your doctors, never instead of them.
Most Loved
The ones the community
reaches for first.
Made by hand in San Diego. Magnesium butters for the end of the day, and facial formulas for skin that reacts to most things.
Gentle Descent Magnesium Butter
From $25
Whipped soft, lightly scented with lavender and chamomile.
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Shield Serum
$110
A ceramide serum. Fragrance-free and essential oil free.
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Ceramide Barrier Cream
$78
The everyday cream. Unscented, and it stays out of the way.
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The Gentle Balm
$68
Cleanses and lifts makeup in one step. Unscented.
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A few minutes at the end
of the day that ask
nothing back.
Warm a little magnesium butter between your hands. Press it into the back of your neck, then up into the base of your skull. Slow circles, real pressure. Take as long as you like.
Then press play on the five-minute meditation, and put the screen down.
Gentle Descent is lightly scented with lavender and chamomile. Pure Descent is the same butter with them left out.
The meditation is free, and it is going to stay free.
Three rituals.
Everything already decided.
Each set is a fixed routine with the steps chosen and in order. Pick the one that matches where your skin is this month, and let the rest go.
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Rather try before you choose? The Discovery Sample Pack is $3.
Two ways to find out,
and neither one costs
you much.
Formulated for reactive, easily-overwhelmed skin. We suggest a patch test on the inner forearm, left 24 hours, before facial use.
For the woman whose body
has been saying something
for years, and who keeps being
handed one more thing to try.
From the Community
Women who have been
where you are.
Most people find us on a bad week. Something else has already gone wrong, and they are looking for the shortest ingredient list they can find. That is who these were made for.
I have MCAS, and I trusted this brand when I was having a flare from another product.
I am 46 and my skin changed completely in the last two years. Everything I used to use started causing reactions. Indiefog is the first brand that seemed to understand what was happening in my body, and on my skin.
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Reviews describe individual experience. Indiefog products are cosmetics, made to cleanse, soften, and comfort skin. They do not treat, cure, or prevent any condition.
In good company
Trusted alongside good people.
Holistic practitioners, wellness spaces, shops, and organizations who share our care for sensitive skin and for the planet.
Rooted & Well™
A room where you are
understood before
you speak.
A free community for people choosing to live more holistically, whether you are managing a chronic condition or you simply want a calmer way of caring for yourself.
Meditations, journaling, and the self-compassion work. A human design expert, a detoxification specialist, and a meditation specialist, in the room alongside your own care team. The guides, the Cup Theory, and a library that stays put.
You can read without posting. Nothing runs on a schedule, so there is nothing to fall behind on. Disappear for three weeks and the room is still here when you get back.
It is free, and it is going to stay free. You already pay for enough.
Come inRooted & Well™ is a peer community, founded by Kikki Avila. Everything shared there is for education and support rather than medical advice. Please make care decisions alongside your own providers, never instead of them.