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Skin researcher and developer explains: The connection between Matured skin and Dryness. And what essential formula has been used to solve it.

Close up of dry, flaking facial skin beside the nose
Cross section of skin after 50, its own oil layer thinned and broken apart

What I am about to share will cost the skincare industry MILLIONS.

After twenty three years developing and selling skincare for dry skin.

I have found out what my bosses were keeping quiet from me all along.

I want to explain what I have since learned.

If you have matured skin I have purposely written this for you.

The day my life changed

On a sunny day, 12 years ago, I was in my office going through all the surveys we had just sent to all the women who visited our pharmacy the last 6 months.

And the surveys were DEVASTATING.

Katharina: "Three jars this year, THREE. My face is still dry by the afternoon, and now visible dry lines are coming as well."

Helga: "I feel the tightness all day. The exact thing you scammers said that it would stop!"

Ingrid: "My face is still flaking beside my nose and at the corners of my mouth. You promised: Nourishment, Rich and intensive care. But it literally does NOTHING."

Ursula: "I have bought for the past 7 years. But my face is still rough to the touch."

Hannelore: "My face does not feel like my own face any more."

A woman in her sixties looking at her own reflection in a bathroom mirror

More than half of the women were sensitive as well. Some said: They would buy something for the dryness, come out in a rash within two days, stop, and be back where they started. Minus the money.

Waltraud: "Nothing worked for more than a few days."

One told me her husband had stopped noticing her. And hoped that the product would fix it.

And the most devastating survey of all was:

Hildegard: "I have maybe twenty good years left. And I am supposed to spend them like this?"

I was left speechless.

And for the first time in my career. I started doubting the very industry I trusted my whole life.

Close up of dry, flaking skin on a cheek after fifty

The lie matured women have been told countless times

The #1 excuse given to matured women regarding their skin:

"That is just your age."

It sounds like wisdom. But it is just instruction to give up.

The #2 excuse given to matured women regarding their skin:

"You just have a dry skin type."

It sounds smart. But it is just accepting that there is nothing you can do.

Most women after buying creams.

Never came back and told me it had not worked. They just bought another jar.

Same woman. Four times a year. Never results.

A bathroom cabinet crowded with half-used face cream jars

Erika: "I have tried everything."

And I took the money every single time, because I did not know any better than she did.

None of it was ever going to get better on its own.

Medical illustration of a mature cheek in cross section, the surface cracked and flaking, the oil layer underneath empty

The real root cause of dryness

After hearing all the surveys. I made a radical decision.

I had quit my job.

And the next 7 months I went to do extensive research.

And somewhere in that year I found the thing nobody had told me.

In 2014 on the 6th day of June. I went to visit an old woman who was made silent for her criticism about the billion dollar skincare industry.

For at past times she mentioned how they were selling products that have no natural ingredients in them. And that they eventually will damage the skin.

She was known for selling only natural ingredients. That has helped thousands of mature skin.

But surely enough. She received a warning from the "industry" that said to stop criticising them.

And in a short time they managed to blackball her so that she had to go under the radar selling her ingredients.

Her name is: Mara Socia, ex researcher & developer at Healthskin MD.

And she told me:

After about fifty, skin stops making the oil it used to make on its own.

It happens to every woman, and it has a proper name.

Xerosis.

Two skin cross sections side by side: the oil layer continuous on the left, broken and patchy on the right

Twenty three years developing and selling skincare for dry skin, and I had never once heard that word said out loud.

Then she continued saying: Almost everything that is sold out there is made up of strange chemicals that actually harm and damage the skin over a period of time.

For mature skin has a different skin barrier that needs Essential oils. And no product on the market offers that.

A bathroom bin filled with discarded face cream jars and tubes

That is why:

Vaseline does nothing. It is too heavy with harmful chemicals for matured skin and it sits on top and does not sink in.

Hyaluronic acid cream is a waste of time. It draws moisture into the top layer of skin, but there is no oil underneath to hold it there.

Prescriptions burn and damage. A study has found that 80% of women are sensitive to them.

Laser treatments are hyped up. Cost thousands of euros with a 20% chance of success. And the damage that it can leave will last for years.

Then what does work?

Jojoba seeds, a halved avocado and macadamia nuts on a linen cloth

If what has gone is oil, then what puts oil back?

Oil does.

That is the whole answer, and it irritated me how simple it was.

Women have been putting oils on their faces for hundreds of years. Nobody had to invent anything or go into a lab and produce strange chemicals that have not existed for even 20 years and that have been made out of nowhere.

Then Mara said: But not any oil. Essential oils, used by our foremothers for hundreds of years. Matured skin needs three essential oils at once:

Jojoba seeds: The essential oil that makes you look well cared for. It sinks into the skin barrier and gives your skin the oils that it needed all along.

Macadamia: The essential oil that keeps your face comfortable all day long. Matured skin cannot hold on to oil the way it used to, and macadamia keeps the jojoba where you put it, so it is still working at four in the afternoon.

Avocado: The essential oil that makes your skin feel soft again. The barrier of matured skin has become stiff, and avocado softens it, so the oils sink in instead of sitting on top the way the creams did.

So I went looking for something that was only that. Three oils, for matured skin, and nothing else in it.

I could not find anybody who had all three Essential oils. That is why I had it made.

The discovery that has helped thousands of matured skin

A woman in her sixties laughing in her kitchen, skin looking soft and healthy

Mara continued: At sixty four I found a family that had been pressing oils at their farms two hours from here, sat down with them, and asked whether they could make me the thing that did not exist.

It took eleven attempts and most of my savings.

The first four were too heavy. One of them I could not use at all, because my own skin reacted to it.

And I was not going to give something I could not wear myself.

Then after the 11th attempt we finally did it. And after giving it to women with matured skin, the results were SHOCKING:

Margarethe: "After many years I've stopped finding what I saw in the mirror unattractive and I cannot stop looking at myself!"

Gisela: "My skin feels really soft, just like how soft the skin of my granddaughter is."

Brigitte: "By week two, the dry lines just vanished."

Elke: "It has been a long time since I have been actively taking care of myself."

Monika: "My husband started touching me like he used to again."

Christel: "For the first time in years I felt like I bought the correct skincare that actually solves dryness for matured skin."

Countless women who have built families, have long careers, grandparents, retired, nurses and many more are finally taking care of their matured skin. All because of essential oils that were used all along by women with matured skin for hundreds & thousands of years.

We will never change it

I know a company is supposed to improve a formula every few years.

And after twenty three years of developing them, I know exactly what that usually means.

It means it got cheaper to make.

Have you ever had a cream you loved come back different and worse? And you were expected to say nothing about it.

I watched women hold up the new jar and ask me what on earth had happened to it.

And I had to stand there and tell them it had been improved.

That will not happen here.

I wear and use this myself, every, single, day. Unlike the big industry companies that are only out for gain.

Introducing the formula that is specifically made for matured skin

The MARLENE stick beside jojoba seeds, macadamia nuts and half an avocado

We had made Marlene essential oils balm.

Three oils. That is the whole list.
JojobaA plant oil that produces the same oil your skin used to produce.
MacadamiaHolds it in place so it stays where you put it.
AvocadoSoftens the skin barrier making your face well taken care of.

Jojoba, macadamia, avocado. You can read the whole list out loud. Unlike the products that are sold on the shelves.

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A woman in her sixties smiling, skin looking comfortable and well cared for

Your face is still comfortable at four in the afternoon. Giving you that comfortable feeling all day long.

Not tight. Not papery. Not lifting at the corner of your mouth by the middle of the day.

The women who use it say the same words:

Soft. Comfortable. Looked after.

Their words, not mine. I only counted how often they came back.

There are thousands of them now, nearly all of them with matured skin.

One of them was extremely skeptical.

I did not try to convince her. I asked her to give it one week. Or else full refund.

She came back on the Thursday and bought three.

A woman in her sixties smiling, holding the MARLENE stick beside her face

That has happened more times than I can tell you now, and it is the only proof I have ever really trusted.

The typical timeline

A woman in her sixties holding the MARLENE stick by a window A woman laughing at her kitchen table, holding the MARLENE stick A woman holding the MARLENE stick on her open palm A woman in her sixties smiling, holding the MARLENE stick

Most women were extremely skeptical.

I mean they had bought years of creams promising them that it would work. But after some time this is usually how it went:

Week one"Before using Marlene my skin would feel dry and tight. But by day three something shifted. It stopped feeling tight."
Week two"The softness of my skin started coming. I'd forgotten what it had felt like. The dry lines started to fade away."
Week three"My husband started noticing, my friend started asking what I did differently, I told them that I was using Marlene."
Week four"My face looks well taken care of. It stays comfortable right through to the evening. I bought 3 more so that I don't run out anymore!"

A great many women say the same thing about the fourth week.

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I am not the only one

Most of them are my age, and most of them found me the same way you have.

★★★★★
Age 65 or over · Dry skin · Bremen

Four o'clock came and went and I did not go to the mirror. That is the whole review really.

★★★★★
Age 65 or over · Very dry skin · Kiel

I was very skeptical. It goes on warm and it is still doing something at six in the evening.

★★★★★
Age 65 or over · Sensitive · Erfurt

Everything with perfume in it brings me out in a rash within a day. This has not, and I have used it since March.

Before and after cheek skin close-up with dramatic glow on the after side
What I spent before
Nine years of creams and serumsabout €2,000
Two of them I could not use at all€190
What any of it actually put backnothing
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Free trial. Risk free.

You have thirty days. If it does not suit you. Money back.

We refund you, and you keep the sticks. Posting them back would cost more than they are worth, and I am not going to ask a woman of sixty five to queue at the post office to prove a point.

The risk is ours 100%.

Limited amount of sticks.

They are going quicker than we expected.

Nothing to lose

You can do nothing

Carry on down the shelf. Another jar in three months, and another after that. Draining money away.

Or you can run your own test

Thirty days. Judge it at four in the afternoon the way you always have. If it does not hold, we refund you and you keep the sticks.
Before and after close-up of cheek skin: dry and rough on the left, smooth and glowing on the right

Six in the evening, and nothing to think about. That is the whole of it.

What to do next

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  3. Tell us where it should go.
  4. It arrives in a few days.
  5. Put it on in the morning, before your glasses. Two minutes and you can get on.
  6. Judge it at four in the afternoon on day seven.

If your face is dry, and nothing you have bought has made any difference to it, that is the whole of what I am asking. One week, and your own four o'clock test.

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Sabine
Sabine spent twenty three years developing and selling skincare for dry skin in German pharmacies, before making MARLENE at sixty four. She still orders her own sticks a year at a time. Buy 2 get 2 Free →

118 comments

Christa H.
The bit about buying a different jar instead of saying it did not work. I have done that for years and I have never once admitted it.
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Renate B.
Has anyone with really sensitive skin tried this? Perfume is my problem, not the dryness.
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Marion K.
Mine reacts to everything. Three weeks in, nothing. I was waiting for it and it did not come.
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Ute S.
I ordered mine at full price last month and now you get 2 free. Slightly annoyed but still glad I have it.
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Doris W.
How long does delivery take?
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Angelika P.
Mine came in about a week.
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