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Our vision at Marie Veronique is to deliver the safest and most effective skincare available, by translating nature's genius into innovative formulations.
Our vision at Marie Veronique is to deliver the safest and most effective skincare available, by translating nature's genius into innovative formulations.
ABOUT MARIE VERONIQUE
Marie-Veronique Nadeau is a chemist who founded Marie Veronique in 2002. An inventor at heart who suffered from teenage acne, she was moved to create her own products when she could find nothing on the market that was clean and effective to address her rosacea. From there, she went on to develop a line for acne and was one of the first to formulate a non-nano zinc oxide sunscreen. She continues to lead the way towards safe yet effective skincare, determined to move an industry ensconced in hype into the realm of science. She is a trained esthetician, holds degrees in Math and Science, and is a former high school chemistry teacher. She collaborates with her daughter, Jay Nadeau, physicist and bio-medical engineer, to carefully choose each ingredient in her products to solve real skin issues and address the causes of aging at the source.
Our vision at Marie Veronique is to deliver superior, non-toxic skincare drawing on nature’s genius and the brain of science through innovative formulations. Achieving optimal skin health and healing real skin issues drive us to produce safe products that truly work.
ABOUT MARIE VERONIQUE
Marie-Veronique Nadeau is a chemist who founded Marie Veronique in 2002. An inventor at heart who suffered from teenage acne, she was moved to create her own products when she could find nothing on the market that was clean and effective to address her rosacea. From there, she went on to develop a line for acne and was one of the first to formulate a non-nano zinc oxide sunscreen. She continues to lead the way towards safe yet effective skincare, determined to move an industry ensconced in hype into the realm of science. She is a trained esthetician, holds degrees in Math and Science, and is a former high school chemistry teacher. She collaborates with her daughter, Jay Nadeau, physicist and bio-medical engineer, to carefully choose each ingredient in her products to solve real skin issues and address the causes of aging at the source.
Our vision at Marie Veronique is to deliver superior, non-toxic skincare drawing on nature’s genius and the brain of science through innovative formulations. Achieving optimal skin health and healing real skin issues drive us to produce safe products that truly work.
by Marie Veronique
As everyone had heard by now the skin is our largest organ, measuring in at 1.8 square meters and supporting an astonishingly wide variety of habitats. It also is home to approximately one trillion microorganisms of about a thousand different species, including bacteria, fungi, viruses, and even mites (Demodex).
The skin microbiome is often compared to the gut microbiome, though upon closer inspection the comparisons don’t quite run in parallel. The major dissimilarity is that unlike the gut, which offers an almost ideal environment for the growth of fermentative bacteria, the skin is vast expanse of inhospitable territory. Much of it can be likened to the Great Salt Lakes area; dry, salty, acidic and nutrient poor. Think elbows, knees, legs and arms for example. However, what stands out on the skin map, with its variety of distinct ecosystems resulting from conditions which favor different subsets of organisms, is the populous nature of the facial area. It’s like looking at an urban center surrounded by swathes of countryside dotted here and there with small towns. The urban area is clearly the cool place to be; it is thriving with different species of microbes, fungi and mites; lipophilic microbes such as Cutibacterium acnes spp, fungi like Malassezia spp, as well as the Demodex mite in the hair follicles of the eyelashes. On a side note, the Demodex mite is known for its vigorous, some might even say debauched, night life— next time you go dancing at a crowded club it would be fun to imagine that you’re a Human Demodex who’s ventured out of your hair follicle for a night on the town. In any case the facial area, and to some extent parts of the back, are the regions where we can expect to see different species of microorganisms thriving and in abundance, sometimes beyond what we might like; for example if you’re a teenager dealing with breakouts you most likely have an overcolonization of a strain of Cutibacterium acnes that can cause acne.
The good news is that most of the microorganisms inhabiting these regions are commensal, i.e. harmless, while those that are symbiotic, like Staphylococcus epidermidiswhich keeps pathogens like Staphylococcus aureus in check, are working tirelessly to keep you healthy. Even the human Demodex mite is just a nuisance to most people, though it is associated with rosacea in folks where the mites tend to get out of hand—with rosaceans playing host to about fifty per cent more Demodex than non-afflicted people.
by Kristina Holey
In our recent post about supporting your skin’s barrier function, we expressed some highly opinionated thoughts on exfoliation. (We called it a “disaster that disrupts your skin’s natural processes.”) We stand by those words! But it’s complicated, so we wanted to give a bit more context.
by Marie Veronique + Kristina Holey
In this post, we clarify what “barrier function” actually means, how it works, and what you can do to not only support it, but actually improve it. Because here’s the thing – if you don’t have healthy barrier function, you don’t have healthy skin. Period. It won’t function well, and it certainly won’t look good.