Better Than Skincare

Actevna replaces the disruption caused by skincare, allowing your skin to function as evolution designed it. It hydrates, smooths, and improves texture naturally—replacing your entire routine with one product

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Made Fresh In Biotech Labs

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Delivered Chilled

What if our skin didn’t need fixing
because nothing had damaged it?

Delivered Cold

Keep Refrigerated

Faced with evidence that skincare and soap harms the skin microbiome, industry had a choice: solve the problem - or - try to make it less harmful and re-brand it as ‘microbiome friendly’.


As biologists, we decided to solve the problem. Actevna® is a biotech startup that’s re-inventing "modern" hygiene, starting with skincare.


The Biology Serum allows you to leave your moisturiser and routine behind, and lets your skin work the way that evolution designed for its health and beauty – in one product - for £2 a day.


Actevna® replaces what evolution never intended for your sophisticated, intelligent skin.

Made fresh. Limited supply.

Visibly improved texture, quality and barrier function

Using the tools evolution designed for skin

See our customers' results

Actevna® intelligently delivers everything your skin needs — in just a single serum.

Supports Skin Quality

Healthy, protected, skin looks good at any age. It starts with Actevna

Restore Self
Moisturisation

Moisturisers can be addictive. Actevna® lets skin moisturise itself again, supplementing intelligently

Pure & Non-Irritating

Clinically proven less irritating to skin and less toxic than even water — yes, water.

One Serum. No Routine.

No multi-step skincare routine needed — just apply Actevna® and you're done.

The forgotten needs and abilities of skin

Your skin evolved to maintain perfect balance through microbiome diversity—half of which is acquired daily from your environment.

Every day, your skin tries to rebuild its diversity, but soap and skincare — both disinfectants — strip away and kill back the microbiome with each use. Your skin becomes trapped in a cycle of damage.

The result? We've lost 50% of our healthy microbiome diversity. It's not gone forever — it surrounds us constantly. We simply can't hold onto it while using today's skincare and hygiene products.

Actevna breaks this cycle, allowing your skin to finally reclaim the environmental diversity it was designed to have.

Ideally, we'd do nothing to our skin - and use no products – but modern life makes that hard.

So we developed The Biology Serum™ as the alternative to skincare.

Designed to restore these environmental interactions of skin wellbeing. The Biology Serum also amplifies and protects what our skin needs. It’s evolutionary support for intelligent skin.

3.8bn

Years of Evolution

403

Ingredient Actives

1

Product

0

Routines

Loved

By Doctors

A world first

Goodbye, preservatives

Skin recovery starts with how you make it..

Each vial is hand filled and labeled by scientists in ultra-clean biotech labs, eliminating the need for antimicrobials that damage your skin's microbiome.

Skincare Production

Air Contamination

(Dust, bacteria etc.)

Hygienic, but preservatives still needed.

Actevna® Production

Zero Contamination

~100,000× Cleaner

Ultra clean. No preservatives needed at all.

How It's Better Than 'Skincare'

All skin needs for all skin types

Particularly sensitive types. It contains everything your skin needs, in one, intelligent skin-native product, saving you time and money. You won't have to worry about about separate day cream, night creams or under eye serums. Say goodbye to complex routines.

Works with skin's biology

We only use ingredients considered 'native' to your skin because they evolved alongside it over billions of years, and even made skin itself possible. The result is healthily-balanced moisture, visibly evened-out complexion and smoother texture.

Pro-microbiome

Intelligently tends the skin microbiome ecosystem and individual protective biodiversity by targeting harmful bacteria and nourishing helpful ones for visibly healthier skin. Unlike skincare, it contains no indiscriminate broad-spectrum anti-microbials that destroy all microbes.

Natural moistursation

The Biology Serum™ helps skin to breathe normally again so that its own natural moisturising factors can pull water from the air to hydrate for skin barrier health and suppleness. We don’t use smothering occlusives to “lock in hydration”, because these can make skin dependent.

Gentle yet effective biological power

Actevna® is clinically proven less irritating for skin than even purified water. It delivers active, anti-inflammatory biological power in a way that's totally native and gentle to skin. You won't have to worry about what's on the label.

Pro-regenerative

Our multiple anti-inflammatory & anti-oxidant components create a protective and suitable environment for skin’s natural regeneration. 

"My ex-husband remarked on how great my skin looks.
Coming from him it's a massive compliment".

Samantha de Bendern

Writer, Broadcaster, Political Analyst

Under the Microscope

Less toxic than skincare

Preservatives are disinfectants that everything they touch, making skincare products safe to mass manufacture.

Unfortunately, they also kill your skin's delicate living cells and invisible microbiome. Even 'natural' or plant-based preservatives.

Uniquely, The Biology Serum™ is made so clean,
it doesn't need preservatives — a world first.

The results speak for themselves:

Cells all dead

Cells remain healthy

How We Make It Better Than 'Skincare'

Made By Scientists

Each vial of The Biology Serum™ is painstakingly hand-produced and filled by PhD cell and microbiologists in our biotech labs to ensure purity — down to the label being applied.

No Preservatives — Seriously

Our products are made in laboratories so clean that uniquely, they don't need any preservatives added to prevent bacteria or contamination. It's a remarkable world first, and your skin will thank you for it.

Cell-Safe

Unlike today's skincare, The Biology Serum™ is uniquely non-cytotoxic, meaning it doesn’t harm cells when applied to skin. Look at the scientific evidence here.

Active, Skin-Native Ingredients

With 385 skin-native actives contained within just 5 natural, healthy ingredients, The Biology Serum™ is delivered in a clinical-grade base of distilled water.

How quickly will I see results?

Because we only use ingredients that your skin considers 'native', those with sensitised skin should stop experiencing discomfort - so long as other products are not being applied. And as sensitivity and other skin problems often go hand-in-hand, for those with rosacea, peri-orbital dermatitis or other skin problems, there’s nothing in Actevna® to trigger an episode; the skin’s immune system will not reject our serum.

After applying Actevna®, your skin will feel hydrated, soft and smooth with a healthy, radiant glow. It takes about 2 weeks for old ingredients to clear out of the skin, and then a further7-10 weeks (a skin cycle) for the full benefits to be realised.