Derma Serum

Derma Serum is a topical living synbiotic: seven live skin-specific probiotic strains suspended in an oil base, alongside ceramides and a blend of botanical oils. It goes on your skin rather than in your mouth, putting the microbes and the lipids straight onto the barrier that needs them.

How Derma Serum Works

Your skin carries a microbiome of its own. When the balance tips towards unhelpful bacteria — dysbiosis, or microbial imbalance — the surface becomes unstable, and sterile indoor lives and environmental impurities push it that way. Most topical probiotics never get their chance: the microbes don’t survive the wait in the bottle. This oil-based formula keeps them viable, so what you apply is living species rather than the remains. Once settled, they regulate the local microbiota, calm inflammation and back the skin’s own repair. The formula also supplies a protein that prompts your skin to make β-defensin, a peptide that guards the barrier.

Key Ingredients

Seven live strains, the lipids that hold a barrier together, and the oils that feed both.

• Staphylococcus epidermidis MS19 — makes bacteriocins, natural inhibitors that keep rival organisms in check. The first probiotic to offer it.
• Roseomonas mucosa MS18 — eases the severity of atopic dermatitis by crowding out Staphylococcus aureus, the colonisation that drives a flare.
• Staphylococcus xylosus MS20 — lifts skin IL-17A+ CD8 T-cells, sharpening the skin’s own answer to infection.
• Four supporting strains — Bacillus licheniformis MS12, Bifidobacterium infantis, Ligilactobacillus salivarius and Lacticaseibacillus paracasei between them digest dirt and grime, interrupt pathogenic biofilms and settle skin inflammation.
• Ceramides — one of the main lipid classes in the skin matrix; applied on top, they rebuild a compromised barrier.
• Botanical oil blend — jojoba, borage, kukui, marula, perilla, grape seed, sea buckthorn, squalane and coconut oils replace depleted skin lipids and carry the rare omega-7 fatty acid.

Who It’s For

For skin that itches, flares, stays dry whatever you put on it, or breaks out and won’t settle — and for anyone looking after a complexion that still behaves. Oily and combination skin included: these oils regulate sebum rather than add to it.

Suggested Use

Shake well and apply to the affected area one to two times a day, or as directed by your healthcare practitioner. Massage a small amount into clean, dry skin — face, neck or scalp. Keep the bottle away from heat and direct sunlight.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why put probiotics on my skin instead of swallowing them? These strains are skin-specific: they belong on the surface, competing with unhelpful bacteria. Taken by mouth they’d land somewhere they don’t live.

Will an oil serum make oily skin worse? No — it’s formulated for oily and combination skin too, and the oils regulate sebum without clogging pores.

Can I use it on my scalp? Yes — scalp and hair concerns are among its listed uses, and the grape seed oil is there for exactly that.

My eczema keeps coming back. Is a serum enough? On the surface it supports the barrier and the microbiome, but skin trouble that keeps returning usually has a driver further in — see the link between eczema and Ascaris parasites.