YOUR SKIN IS YOUR LARGEST ORGAN.
It protects, defends, feeds, and helps detoxify the rest of your body. As a result, it is also one of our most vulnerable components, getting worn down not only by physical trauma (like cuts and scrapes, bug bites, and tattoos), but from neglect or lack of support from nutrient-devoid and energetically-dead compounds.
At AIKI SKIN, we select our ingredients based on the compounds found within, which directly influences the efficacy and healing properties in our products. We believe our body, as a natural organism, works symbiotically with nature. There are no parabens, silicones, artificial fragrances, petroleum, sulphates, phthalates, PEGs, or any other damaging chemicals in our products.
By making a conscious effort to use only the most bio-resonant, nutrient-dense raw materials in our products, while keeping up-to-date with best practices in the holistic and scientific communities, we’re able to bring you highly efficacious products to heal, prep, and protect your skin.
Redefining traditional Eastern self-care practices.
We're big believers in energy - how the earth, and all its occupants, are created with the magical stuff. How it can be good, bad, warm, cold, loving and supportive, or aloof and distant. How it can easily flow from one space to another, and how we can feel those energetic shifts. How it can't be destroyed - simply transferred. And it's this energy - our individual energy, as well as the energy of everything around us, that needs to be cared for, respected, and listened to in order to reach optimal levels - of happiness, health, wealth, success, and yes, beautiful skin, too. Which is why we're so drawn to the principles outlined in Ayurveda and Traditional Chinese Medicine, and why we've chosen to abide by them when crafting up our products, and creating the AIKI SKIN brand.
Both Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and Ayurveda have been around for more than 3,000 years and have the shared belief that to be healthy, one must work on maintaining a balance of both body and mind. For TCM, it means bringing the forces of yin and yang into equilibrium in order to keep chi/ki/qi vitalized; for Ayurveda, it means balancing your body's constitution or prakriti in order to keep your dosha(s) or life forces vitalized.
Both of these ancient philosophies highlight nutritious, healing herbs and spices, as well as daily meditative practices to balance the body and mind, which is what AIKI SKIN draws its foundations in. You can find these practices exemplified in our use of our Obsidian Gua Sha Massage Tool, as well as our Chinese Face Map tool.
Our Ethos
1. 100% ALL-NATURAL, INDIVIDUALIZED SKINCARE
AIKI SKIN products are made with ingredients that are natural, organic, wildcrafted, virgin, raw, cold-pressed, cruelty-free, wheat and gluten-free, and sustainable. We select our ingredients based on their efficacy, supreme healing properties, and for their end use. After all, no two people have the same skin! Our collection of products are created to suit individual skin concerns, or are made to build on one another to form a personalized regimen.
2. NO CHEMICALS, NO FILLERS... NOT EVEN WATER!
There are no parabens, silicones, artificial fragrances, petroleum, sulphates, phthalates, PEGs, DEA, TEA, or any other chemicals in our products. We refuse to use any fillers - not even water! Only the good stuff goes into our formulations!
3. HANDCRAFTED, IN SMALL BATCHES, WITH HOLISTIC PACKAGING PRACTICES
Our products are lovingly made by hand, in small batches, with proprietary formulas that have been carefully created without any shortcuts or purchased base formulas. We use dark and/or opaque containers to protect the sensitive contents inside from sunlight and to help maintain more effective formulas.
AIKI SKIN is based on a truly holistic approach to skincare and, as such, is devoted to maintaining holistic practices in business and packaging. When you purchase AIKI SKIN products, you can feel comforted knowing that:
Our packaging is fully recyclable (though we encourage you to re-use our bottles and jars first).
We even save the bubble wrap and other packaging from our suppliers and re-use them to help protect our products while they’re on their way to you.
We try to use recycled paper in our packaging and advertising, and as little of it as possible.
5. A FOCUS ON INTERNAL HEALTH
When it comes to our skin, each one of us is unique. Our individual DNA combine with the conditions of our existence - the food we eat, the environment we live in, the stresses and emotions we endure, etc, - to create complex issues in our skin.
That's why at AIKI SKIN, we believe in a holistic approach to your skincare - taking care of the inner you with proper nutrition, exercise, and mental approaches, as well as using products that are more customized to your skin needs.
Just think about it! YOU have very specific and individual levels of the various hormones in your body - all of which are affected by your diet, your exercise (every person requires different amounts AND different types), and the everyday stresses you endure. These hormones directly influence your skin - how much or how little oil it produces, if a rash from an allergy develops, etc. And don't be surprised if 5 years down the road (or even 1 year), your hormones change and your skin needs change as well. They say that every 7 years we regenerate completely new cells - and these cells are based on how you live your life. They're your body's way of changing to reflect or fight against your lifestyle. Some people develop allergies later in life - these are a perfect example of how the body can change. So too can your skin! You can help it become the best version it can be by providing it with the best foundation - with the nutrients found in the food you eat, calming mental and physical exercises you perform, and an all-natural skincare solution that complements its existing structure.
All nutritional information presented by AIKI SKIN are simply suggestions based on common healthy nutritional and lifestyle practices. We do not endorse that they will 100% solve your skin issues. For those with severe skin issues like acne, eczema, rosacea, or anything else of concern, we encourage seeking personalized professional support from registered Holistic Nutritionists or Naturopaths to help determine specific underlying dietary and lifestyle causes.
Beginnings
AIKI SKIN founder Teenna Tsang has been obsessed with skin - her skin - since she was a young teenager battling the emotional and physical scars that come with severe acne. Through years of research and testing, she discovered the harmful effects of chemicals in skincare and switched over to an all-natural skincare routine, eventually playing with organic, wildcrafted, raw materials to make her own beginning in 2013. However, that wasn't enough. Through her studies and interests in nutrition and the endocrine system, it also soon became apparent that good skin was only made possible with proper nutrition and a balanced lifestyle. And as a new mother, this obsession with learning more grew and finally drove her to enroll in the Institute of Holistic Nutrition, where she obtained her nutrition certification in 2020. Teenna uses the continuously expanding knowledge she learns to help you achieve beautiful skin and vibrant, abundant health.