Skin by Design · Manifestors

The Independent Force

Your skin wants a short routine that does real work.

You move fast and you start things. A long routine is one more thing standing between you and the door.

Your skin tends to show it when you have pushed hard, and it lets you know quickly when something is too harsh. So this ritual is four steps, each one with a clear job and a gentle hand.

What your skin tends to ask for

Efficient, and gentle about it.

A routine done in minutes

Four steps at most, and room to skip one on the days you are out the door.

Ingredients with a number on the label

You want to know what is doing the work, and how much of it is in there.

Gentle potency

Pushed skin shows it fast, so the actives here come without acids or retinol.

Freedom to adjust

Morning and night can look different. The ritual bends to your day.

Your ritual

Four steps, each with a job.

One cleanse, a peptide essence and serum made as a pair, and a bakuchiol oil that sinks in fast enough to wear morning and night.

1 · Cleanse

The Gentle Balm

Melts off the day, makeup included, and leaves skin soft. It cleanses and moisturizes in one step, so there is no second cleanse.

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2 · Essence

Elevate Essence

Fourteen ingredients built around copper tripeptide-1, for a brighter, more even look on mornings your skin looks tired.

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3 · Serum

Renew Serum

Plant peptides from quinoa and pea at 3% each, with a 4% peptide complex, to soften the look of texture and even the look of tone.

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4 · Oil

Firm Elixir

Newly reformulated. Bakuchiol with a soft hyaluronic touch, in a light oil that sinks in fast, for the look of smoother, firmer skin without retinol. Morning and night.

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Elevate Essence and Renew Serum both contain lupine and avocado peptides. Lupine can cross-react with peanut, and avocado is linked to latex-fruit allergy. If either applies to you, read the allergen notes on those two pages before you order.

The short version

Morning and night

The same four products, split across the day so neither end of it takes long.

Morning · The Gentle Balm, Elevate Essence, Renew Serum, three drops of Firm Elixir

Night · The Gentle Balm, Renew Serum, five drops of Firm Elixir

Out the door · Cleanse and Elevate is enough

A richer night · Defy Face Butter over the Firm Elixir. It contains lupine too.

How to use it

Start with what you will actually keep.

If four steps feels like too many, begin with the Balm and the Renew Serum and add the others once those are habit.

Press each layer in and give it a moment before the next. That moment is the whole time cost.

Formulated for reactive, easily-overwhelmed skin. Patch test before facial use. Start Here walks you through it.

Skin by Design draws on Human Design as a language for noticing. It is not a diagnosis, and it belongs alongside your doctors, never instead of them.

Indiefog products are cosmetics, made to cleanse, soften, and comfort skin. They do not treat, cure, or prevent any condition.