Dermatology M

I trained in herbal dermatology under Mazin Al-Khafaji. This is his line.

He is a Chinese medicine dermatologist working in England, and he has spent 30 years on the skin nobody else could sort out. He is also one of the few people in the field serious enough about herb identity and toxicity to work with the botanists at Kew. The formulas are his and the manufacturing is his. I stock them. I don't make them.

What makes the range worth carrying is that it is organized by pattern. In Chinese dermatology, eczema is not one condition. Hot, red, weeping, burning skin wants cooling herbs. Pale, dry, thickened, cool-feeling skin wants the opposite, and cooling it further stalls the repair. Two people with the same diagnosis from the same dermatologist can need opposite creams. That is why there are 5 products in the softening family alone.

Every page here carries the full ingredient list. It also carries the allergens the label understates: beeswax, shea, oyster shell, silkworm, sweet almond, sesame, camphor. If you react to something, read the page before you buy.

Names are messy in this range, so each page opens with an "Also known as" line. The pinyin, the current English name and whatever it was called before are all there, because you might be looking for any of them.

These are cosmetics. They are not drugs and they do not treat disease. Most of them do their best work alongside internal herbal therapy. If you want help matching one to your skin, book with me at doctorstacee.com.