Evolution spent 3.8 billion years perfecting skin.
Evolution spent 3.8 billion years perfecting skin.
But soap and non-soap skincare products harm the skin. Paradoxically, this hygiene was invented to facilitate the health and beauty of our urbanised world.
We’ve now learned these skincare products can cause chronic dryness, acne and other medical conditions. Ironically, skincare impedes our success. Who wants acne? Yet 95% of us will suffer this skin microbiome disorder.
Our improving knowledge of the skin microbiome has enabled this realisation. Its ecosystem diversity is a measure of skin health — and we’ve lost ~50% of this healthy balance. Skincare products, all disinfectants at their core, are responsible.
We have more in the pipeline, including a cleanser, body washer, UV blocker, and more.
Our first product, the Biology Serum™ replaces your skincare routine with just one multifunctional product. All Actevna® products are clinically proven less irritating to skin than the (DI) water base of industry products. This quality is unprecedented, and sets a new benchmark for health & beauty.
You can restore the lost ~50% of the skin microbiome without a pre-, pro-, post-biotic or “microbiome friendly” product — a new marketing phrase which is like a fig leaf covering the skincare health problem. To an authentic scientist, it means:
“We think [the product] is less harmful to your skin than before, but we can’t really know.”
So here’s the simple, unspoken solution to the skincare problem:
Our missing ~50% skin microbiome diversity is skin contact acquired daily. The closer your skin is to airborne or physical biodiversity (in nature), the better. And the less skincare you use, the more skin-healthy diversity you recover. Ideally, stop using all skincare products and return to our native-era hygiene. But if you don't want to do that, just switch to Actevna®.
Actevna, with our biotech approach is the alternative to skincare if you want both products and healthy skin.
But soap and non-soap skincare products harm the skin. Paradoxically, this hygiene was invented to facilitate the health and beauty of our urbanised world.
We’ve now learned these skincare products can cause chronic dryness, acne and other medical conditions. Ironically, skincare impedes our success. Who wants acne? Yet 95% of us will suffer this skin microbiome disorder.
Our improving knowledge of the skin microbiome has enabled this realisation. Its ecosystem diversity is a measure of skin health — and we’ve lost ~50% of this healthy balance. Skincare products, all disinfectants at their core, are responsible.
We have more in the pipeline, including a cleanser, body washer, UV blocker, and more.
Our first product, the Biology Serum™ replaces your skincare routine with just one multifunctional product. All Actevna® products are clinically proven less irritating to skin than the (DI) water base of industry products. This quality is unprecedented, and sets a new benchmark for health & beauty.
You can restore the lost ~50% of the skin microbiome without a pre-, pro-, post-biotic or “microbiome friendly” product — a new marketing phrase which is like a fig leaf covering the skincare health problem. To an authentic scientist, it means:
“We think [the product] is less harmful to your skin than before, but we can’t really know.”
So here’s the simple, unspoken solution to the skincare problem:
Our missing ~50% skin microbiome diversity is skin contact acquired daily. The closer your skin is to airborne or physical biodiversity (in nature), the better. And the less skincare you use, the more skin-healthy diversity you recover. Ideally, stop using all skincare products and return to our native-era hygiene. But if you don't want to do that, just switch to Actevna®.
Actevna, with our biotech approach is the alternative to skincare if you want both products and healthy skin.
Who we are
Meet the
team
behind actevna®

Richard Straughan
Founder, CEO

Christopher Straughan
Co-Founder, CTO

Dr Kim Roberts
Molecular & Cell Biologist

Anna Priadka
Industry Veteran

Katie Barber
Marketer

Dr Bernard Ho
Consultant Dermatologist

Savannah Taylor-Chowles
Marketer

Sasha Richardson
Cell Biologist

Shweta Tooray
Molecular & Cell Biologist
Contributors
“If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”
— Sir Isaac Newton
Dr D. W. Straughan, OBE
PhD, MB, BS
During a distinguished 60 year medical-scientific career, Dr Straughan co-authored the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act [1986] - a progressive animal rights law to stop cruelty and unnecessary suffering.
This world-leading law and the FRAME lobby to the EU resulted in a 1993 Directive to ban animal tests for cosmetics. The UK began the ban in 1998 and other EU Member States started the ban in 2014.
Dr Mohi Rezvani
PhD, CBiol, FSB, MCPP
Dr Rezvani is a Reader Emeritus at the University of Oxford, and formerly led its Research Institute at Churchill Hospital.
For over 40 years, he has been a senior cell biologist and medical herbalist, specialising in the fields of radiobiology (skin cancer), stem cell and extracellular vesicle biology. Notably, Dr Rezvani pioneered work with Curcuma longa extract for the treatment of radiation skin lesion, among other herb-based skincare strategies for dermatological and cosmetic fields. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) the Royal Society of Biology (RSB).
Who we are
Meet the
team
behind actevna®

Richard Straughan
Founder, CEO

Christopher Straughan
Co-Founder, CTO

Dr Kim Roberts
Molecular & Cell Biologist

Anna Priadka
Industry Veteran

Katie Barber
Marketer

Dr Bernard Ho
Consultant Dermatologist

Savannah Taylor-Chowles
Marketer

Sasha Richardson
Cell Biologist

Shweta Tooray
Molecular & Cell Biologist
Contributors
“If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”
— Sir Isaac Newton
Dr D. W. Straughan, OBE
PhD, MB, BS
During a distinguished 60 year medical-scientific career, Dr Straughan co-authored the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act [1986] - a progressive animal rights law to stop cruelty and unnecessary suffering.
This world-leading law and the FRAME lobby to the EU resulted in a 1993 Directive to ban animal tests for cosmetics. The UK began the ban in 1998 and other EU Member States started the ban in 2014.
Dr Mohi Rezvani
PhD, CBiol, FSB, MCPP
Dr Rezvani is a Reader Emeritus at the University of Oxford, and formerly led its Research Institute at Churchill Hospital.
For over 40 years, he has been a senior cell biologist and medical herbalist, specialising in the fields of radiobiology (skin cancer), stem cell and extracellular vesicle biology. Notably, Dr Rezvani pioneered work with Curcuma longa extract for the treatment of radiation skin lesion, among other herb-based skincare strategies for dermatological and cosmetic fields. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) the Royal Society of Biology (RSB).
Who we are
Meet the
team
behind actevna®

Richard Straughan
Founder, CEO

Christopher Straughan
Co-Founder, CTO

Dr Kim Roberts
Molecular & Cell Biologist

Anna Priadka
Industry Veteran

Katie Barber
Marketer

Dr Bernard Ho
Consultant Dermatologist

Savannah Taylor-Chowles
Marketer

Sasha Richardson
Cell Biologist

Shweta Tooray
Molecular & Cell Biologist
Contributors
“If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”
— Sir Isaac Newton
Dr D. W. Straughan, OBE
PhD, MB, BS
During a distinguished 60 year medical-scientific career, Dr Straughan co-authored the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act [1986] - a progressive animal rights law to stop cruelty and unnecessary suffering.
This world-leading law and the FRAME lobby to the EU resulted in a 1993 Directive to ban animal tests for cosmetics. The UK began the ban in 1998 and other EU Member States started the ban in 2014.
Dr Mohi Rezvani
PhD, CBiol, FSB, MCPP
Dr Rezvani is a Reader Emeritus at the University of Oxford, and formerly led its Research Institute at Churchill Hospital.
For over 40 years, he has been a senior cell biologist and medical herbalist, specialising in the fields of radiobiology (skin cancer), stem cell and extracellular vesicle biology. Notably, Dr Rezvani pioneered work with Curcuma longa extract for the treatment of radiation skin lesion, among other herb-based skincare strategies for dermatological and cosmetic fields. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) the Royal Society of Biology (RSB).