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HALO

Our Story · Since 2021

We started Halo to take the shelf back down to what works.

The idea

Skincare had gotten loud. More steps, more actives, more jars half used and pushed to the back. We wanted the opposite, a routine short enough to keep.

So we built a lab around one rule. If a formula cannot show its work on real skin, it does not ship. Every product is a short list of proven ingredients, dosed to matter.

The Halo formulation lab, porcelain trays and frosted glassware in cool light
The formulation bench · Halo lab, Portland

How we work

1

One lab

Every formula is developed and tested in a single lab with a dermatologist on staff. Nothing is white labelled.

6

Ingredients or fewer

We hold most formulas to six active ingredients or fewer. If something does not earn its line, it comes out.

30d

Results window

Every product is tested to show a measurable change within thirty days, or it does not make the shelf.

The long way here

“If it can't show its work, it doesn't ship.”
2021

A bench and one dermatologist

Two of us and a rented lab bench. One serum, tested on a hundred faces before we let anyone buy it.

2022

The Short List

We boxed the first three step routine. It sold out twice. Short, it turned out, was the whole point.

2024

The clinic

We opened a consult clinic so people could get a routine built for their skin, not sold to them.

2026

Still short on purpose

Bigger lab, same rule. Twenty formulas, six ingredients or fewer, every one tested until it earns a place.

Read the shelf, pick a concern, and keep your routine short.

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