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ILa Collection · The M-Veil™ Collection

The M-Veil™ Collection

Two formulas, the duo that pairs them, and the copper tool that works them in.

M-Veil is not a marketing name for a single ingredient. It is the four-mushroom adaptogenic complex — reishi, chaga, cordyceps, maitake — that sits underneath every formula we make, carried on desert lipids and paired with 1% bakuchiol, CoQ10 and stabilised vitamin C.

Skin in perimenopause is not damaged skin. It is skin whose lipid production has changed, and it answers better to replacement than to correction. Everything in this catalogue is built on that one idea.

  • Four objects
  • One M-Veil complex
  • Made in Victoria BC
ph. Derek Ford
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Le Complexe

What every formula here has in common

1%

bakuchiol — retinol's results by a route reactive skin can actually hold

× 4

adaptogenic mushrooms: reishi, chaga, cordyceps, maitake

0 mL

added water. Anhydrous formulas, so nothing on the list is diluted

THDA

oil-soluble vitamin C, stable where ascorbic acid is not

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Vancouver Island · ph. Derek Ford
IILa Philosophie

Not anti-ageing. Pro-resilience.

The industry sells correction to women whose skin is not broken. What changes in the hormonal transition is measurable and specific: epidermal lipids fall, the barrier loses its hold on water, and the microbiome shifts with it.

We formulate for that, and for nothing else. No claims about turning back time — only the lipids, antioxidants and adaptogens that hold a barrier together while it changes.

IIIFurther Reading

The reasoning behind the formula.

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  1. collagen menopause

    The Three Skin Systems That Change Most in Menopause (And Why They Change Together)

    Start here. The three systems that change together in menopause, and why treating one without the others is what stalls most routines.

  2. biomimetic skincare

    What "Biomimetic" Actually Means on a Skincare Label (And Why It Matters After 45)

    Biomimetic is on a great many labels and explained on almost none of them. What it has to mean before it means anything.

  3. adaptogens

    Why Your Skin Got So Reactive (And What Mushroom Beta-Glucans Actually Do)

    The case for the four mushrooms in the M-Veil complex, and what beta-glucans do that a soothing botanical does not.