🌿 What Goes Into Your Skin Matters

I believe you deserve to know exactly what's in every product you put on your skin — where it comes from, how it's made, and why I chose it. No mystery ingredients. No hidden nasties. Just honest, purposeful formulation.

Every ingredient I use is chosen for three reasons: it has to be effective, it has to be ethical, and it has to tell a story worth telling.

💚 Upcycled Ingredients — Rescued from Waste, Perfected for Your Skin

I proudly source my upcycled ingredients through Upcycled Beauty — a pioneering supplier that transforms food and agricultural byproducts into extraordinary, bioactive skincare ingredients. What the food industry discards, we transform into something your skin will love.

Here are some of the hero upcycled ingredients you'll find in My Skin & I products:

🫐 Blueberry Seed Oil

A byproduct of blueberry juice production, the seeds are cold-pressed into a luxuriously light oil packed with omega fatty acids (3, 6 & 9) and powerful antioxidants. It absorbs beautifully, helps protect against environmental stressors, and leaves skin feeling nourished — not greasy.

🍓 Raspberry Seed Oil

Extracted from the seeds left over after raspberry processing, this oil is one of nature's richest sources of vitamin E and essential fatty acids. It's deeply moisturising, helps soothe irritated skin, and has a naturally high antioxidant content. A true superfood for your skin.

🌿 Hemp Seed Oil

Cold-pressed from hemp seeds — a byproduct of hemp processing — this oil is a skin-balancing powerhouse. Rich in omega-3 and omega-6 in the perfect ratio for skin health, it hydrates without clogging pores and helps calm redness and inflammation. Suitable for all skin types.

🌾 Rice Powder

A gentle, finely milled powder born from rice milling waste — what's left after rice is processed for food. Rich in vitamins B and E, rice powder softens and brightens the skin, helps absorb excess oil, and provides a silky-smooth texture. A beautiful, multipurpose ingredient that works as a gentle exfoliant and skin-perfecting agent.

🌼 Toniq — Botanical Distillation Water

When botanicals are steam-distilled to create essential oils — think the aromatic process behind gin-making and botanical extractions — a beautiful, fragrant water is left behind. This is the Toniq: a hydrosol rich in the water-soluble compounds of the plant, gentle enough for even sensitive skin, and deeply hydrating.

Rather than discarding this precious byproduct, Upcycled Beauty's Toniq range captures and refines it into a skin-loving ingredient that tones, hydrates, and soothes — carrying the essence of the botanical in its purest, most gentle form. It's the kind of ingredient that makes you wonder why it was ever considered waste.

🌾 Pumpkin Seed Oil

Cold-pressed from the seeds left over after pumpkin is processed for food, pumpkin seed oil is a deeply nourishing, nutrient-dense oil rich in zinc, vitamin E, and essential fatty acids. Zinc is a hero mineral for skin health — helping to regulate oil production, support skin repair, and calm inflammation. This oil absorbs readily and leaves skin feeling soft, balanced, and beautifully conditioned.

🌱 Chickpea (Hummus Byproduct)

Chickpeas are a staple of food production — and the byproducts of their processing are surprisingly powerful for skin. Rich in protein, zinc, and folate, chickpea-derived ingredients help support skin's natural barrier, improve elasticity, and deliver a gentle brightening effect. It's humble, hardworking, and wonderfully effective — much like the best things in life.

🌟 Australian Botanicals — The Power of Native Plants

Australia's unique landscape has produced some of the most resilient and potent botanicals on earth. These plants have adapted to survive in some of the harshest conditions imaginable — and that strength translates directly into extraordinary benefits for your skin.

🍊 Gubinge (Kakadu Plum)

One of the world's highest natural sources of Vitamin C — up to 100 times more than an orange. Native to the Kimberley region of Western Australia, Gubinge is a powerful brightening and antioxidant ingredient that helps even skin tone, boost collagen production, and protect against free radical damage.

🌿 Native Botanicals

I continue to explore and incorporate the best of Australia's native plant world into my formulations — always sourced ethically, always chosen with intention, and always with full traceability from plant to product.

💬 My Ingredient Promise

Every single ingredient in every My Skin & I product is:

• ✅ Vegan — no animal-derived ingredients, ever
• ✅ Cruelty-free — never tested on animals
• ✅ Transparently listed — no hidden names or misleading labels
• ✅ Free from parabens, sulfates & artificial fragrances
• ✅ Sustainably sourced — ethical and traceable
• ✅ Chosen for multipurpose efficacy — every ingredient works hard so you don't have to

Have a question about a specific ingredient? I'd love to hear from you. Reach out at myskinandiwebsite@gmail.com — I'm always happy to chat.

— Steph 🌿
Founder, My Skin & I