Our Nervous System Standards · Updated to v2.0 · 19 Aug 2026

Our Nervous System Standards

Built for skin that cannot afford a mistake.

Nervous System Skincare™

You keep a list on your phone, and you check every label against it before you buy.

So the standard each formula has to pass is written out here, where you can read it. There are four, and each one decides something different about what reaches your skin.

Every claim below carries the ingredient, the percentage, or the reason behind it. What is left out is left out on purpose, and this page says why.

The Four Standards

What each one decides.

One decides how a formula feels. One decides what goes in. One decides how it is kept safe. One decides what we tell you about it.

Standard i

Sensory Safety

For reactive skin, sensory input is physiological input. Texture, scent, temperature, and pace all register. Every formula is built to give your skin less to react to.

In Practice

  • No synthetic fragrance, anywhere in the line
  • Facial line essential oil-free
  • Nothing gritty or abrasive
  • Slow, predictable rituals
  • Formulas that honor your limits
Key Ally · Tremella, 0.5%A hydrating mushroom, in 11 of our formulas, for a soft and cushioning feel. It sits on our mold-sensitivity disclosure list, which we would rather you heard from us.

Standard ii

Clinical Formulation

Every ingredient is weighed for the metabolic cost it asks of a system already running at capacity. If it does not earn its place, it does not go in.

In Practice

  • Formulated by a clinical formulator
  • Gentle textures, nothing stripping
  • Low-stimulation actives
  • No dilution, no fillers
  • Nutrient-dense, intentionally simple
Key Allies · Niacinamide, Bakuchiol, PeptidesNiacinamide sits at 2.5%, with zinc PCA at 1%, in Clarity Essence and Balance Serum. Five formulas use bakuchiol, chosen for skin that cannot tolerate retinoids. The peptides come from avocado and lupine, which is why four products carry a lupin cross-reactivity note.

Standard iii

Certified Preservation

A water-containing product with no preservative is a contamination risk, and that is not a risk to hand to anyone whose immune system is already working hard. Every water-based formula is preserved with one of two certified systems. Anhydrous formulas need none, and get none.

In Practice

  • One 100% natural preservation system
  • One COSMOS and Ecocert certified system
  • Every water-based formula preserved
  • Anhydrous formulas, stable by design
  • The system used, named on the label
Key Allies · Ceramides, Panthenol, OatCeramides in Shield Serum and the Ceramide Barrier Cream. Panthenol across four formulas. Colloidal oat in both cleansing bars. Every one chosen for comfort on skin that has none to spare.

Standard iv

Radical Honesty

We tell you what is in your products and why, including where the science is established and where it extends into clinically informed intuition. We never speak to you like a problem to be solved.

In Practice

  • Full ingredient transparency
  • Language that honors your lived experience
  • No overclaiming, ever
  • We say which is science and which is intuition
  • Salicylate sources, named openly
Key Ally · Full-Spectrum Hemp ExtractFrom organic hemp, included for a calm, quiet sensory experience, and named for exactly what it is.

Our essential oil policy

Almost every product is available essential oil-free.

We never use synthetic fragrance, anywhere in the line. The entire facial line is completely essential oil-free. Each lightly scented body butter has a fully essential-oil-free twin, made for skin that reacts to even gentle botanicals. Every one of those exclusions is left out on purpose.

There are two exceptions. Our menthol magnesium butters are built around their botanicals, and no unscented version of them exists. We name them plainly on every label, so you always know exactly what you are reaching for.

Facial lineEssential oil-free, every product.
Scented body buttersEach has an essential-oil-free twin. Pure Descent, Pure Reset.
Menthol buttersBuilt around their botanicals. No unscented version.
Synthetic fragranceNever used, anywhere in the line.

From Standard to Practice

A standard is only real if you can feel it.

Here is where these four live.

In our formulas

Every product passes all four before it exists. We choose ingredients for what they do, weigh what each one asks of a system already running at capacity, preserve every water-based formula with a certified system, and name what is inside and why.

In your rituals

Your daily care becomes a grounding practice. Slow, predictable steps that ask nothing extra of you, in a moment that meets you where you actually are.

This is a language for noticing. It is not a diagnosis, and it belongs alongside your doctors, never instead of them. We suggest a patch test on the inner forearm, left 24 hours, before facial use. Indiefog products are cosmetics, made to cleanse, soften, and comfort skin. They do not treat, cure, or prevent any condition.

The Method

We start by taking away.

Every ingredient we leave out is one less thing your skin has to respond to. That is the method, and it runs through every formula in the line.

What stays in is weighed for the metabolic cost it asks of a system already running at capacity. If an ingredient does not earn its place, it does not go in. Every water-based formula is preserved with a certified system, and every batch is small enough to make by hand.

The ritual stays short and unhurried. The full list stays where you can read it. Everything left out is left out on purpose.

Explore the Rituals

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