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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.
Having a glowing complexion is a wonderful thing! However, it’s important to realize that while beauty may be your primary motivator for adopting smart skin care practices, the reasons to take care of your skin go far beyond looking good. As we covered in our post about The Structure and Function of the Skin, the skin is the largest and fastest growing organ, and one we’re still learning about every day. Though it happens to be on the outside of our body, it’s integral to the health of our internal body as well.
In this post we’ll go over some of the reasons taking care of your skin is critical to overall wellness. While we don’t expect you to be experts on anatomy and physiology (that’s our job), we do think it’s helpful to have some understanding of how the skin works. This will help you understand why our products work, as our products are biomimetic, meaning they mimic the body’s innate biochemical processes for achieving its optimal state.
Before we dive in, it's critical to understand one thing: human skin has adapted to its changing environment over millennia. Along with that collection of bacteria, viruses, and other microorganisms known as the microbiome that resides in and on you, the skin is highly specialized to fulfill its mission: protecting and ensuring the survival of the entire organism. So keep that in mind when you choose your skincare products and practices – above all we want you to focus on strengthening your skin, not stripping it or otherwise disrupting its natural genius. (Note that using topicals is just one element of influencing skin health – our microbiome-friendly guide to skin care and our guide to delivering essential micronutrients topically offer valuable guidance for starting or building an effective regimen.)
Here is an overview of what we know about the skin’s most critical functions.
So there you have it. When we talk about achieving skin health, we want to not only be thoughtful about what products we apply to the outside, but to also work to support a healthy body on the inside. As we’ve seen above, fostering strong, stable skin results in a huge impact on the state of our internal health.