SkinBiomeNourishment

Support not control

Moisturisers formulated for your skin type and the microbiome it carries.

Formulated by a chemist from the published science, then made by hand in small batches on the north Devon coast. Cold-pressed organic oils, every ingredient listed in plain English, every percentage published.

Moisturisers formulated for your skin type and the microbiome it carries.

Start with your skin type

Everything we make is built around five skin types. Find yours, then choose how light or rich you'd like it.

Not sure which you are? Take the skin type finder →

Three textures, not a dozen products

Most face creams, body lotions, hand creams and foot balms are the same handful of ingredients at different thicknesses, sold to you as four products. We would rather give you three honest textures and trust you to put them where they suit.

Flow The lightest. A fluid moisturiser that sinks in quickly, the easy choice for the face and for skin that likes a light touch. Shop Flow →
Core The middle. Richer and more cushioning, suited to the body and everyday use. Shop Core →
Deep The richest. A substantial cream for the parts that take the most punishment, hands, elbows, knees and feet. Shop Deep →

The only thing that changes between them is how much cold-pressed organic oil each one carries. More oil, more richness. Everything else stays the same.

Bars show relative oil load

The full formulation

Nothing hidden

We publish every formulation in full, every ingredient and the exact percentage we use. Most of the industry does not. You can read an ingredient list and make up your own mind.

What follows is an extract, the ten largest ingredients after water in Core Dry Sensitive. The full list of twenty-six is on the product page.

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CORE · DRY SENSITIVE
The ten largest ingredients after water, by weight
10 of 26
Glycerin^ 6.00%
Adansonia Digitata (Baobab) Seed Oil*^ 3.68%
Hylocereus Undatus (Dragon Fruit) Seed Oil* 3.68%
Oenothera Biennis (Evening Primrose) Oil*^ 3.34%
Cetearyl Olivate 2.70%
Sodium Citrate 2.25%
Calophyllum Inophyllum (Tamanu) Seed Oil*^ 2.00%
Sorbitan Olivate 1.80%
Cetearyl Alcohol 1.50%
Gluconolactone 1.13%
* cold-pressed organic · ^ organic · no synthetic fragrance Bars scaled to the largest shown · Aqua is 64.18% · full list on the product page
Made for your microbiome

Made for your microbiome

Your skin is a living surface with its own microbiome, the community of microbes that helps keep it healthy. The research points steadily in one direction. Skin tends to do better when that community is supported rather than stripped. So we formulate to nourish it, with prebiotics, postbiotics and cold-pressed oils, and we leave synthetic fragrance out entirely.

Read the science →
Why we started

Why we started

Biotaderm began on the north Devon coast with a simple frustration: skincare labels that told you almost nothing. We set out to make the opposite. Every formulation published in full, every percentage listed, nothing hidden behind a marketing name.

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Made by hand in Welcombe, Devon
Vegan and cruelty-free
Refillable aluminium bottles, reusable pump
Every formulation published in full
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