Microbiome science

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be Phree.

Complete care for the skin barrier and the microbiome. One serum, built on science, for lasting resilience.

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Better together

Pair Phree Skin products into a single step in your routine.

Why Phree

Skin that breathes, every single day.

Microbiome science in one daily step. It feeds the good microbes, rebuilds the barrier and brings balance back.

How it works
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The Phree Skin range
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Your microbiome

Out of balance, skin reacts.

When the living community on your skin is disrupted, reactive microbes take over and the barrier leaks. Dryness, redness, sensitivity follow.

Phree feeds the good microbes.

Prebiotic inulin feeds the beneficial microbes and probiotic Lactobacillus strengthens them. Nourished, the good microbes begin to multiply.

Balance returns. The barrier seals.

The good microbes crowd out the reactive ones, the barrier repairs, and skin becomes calm, resilient, free.

Four changes

What one considered step actually does.

Rebuilds the barrier
01

Rebuilds the barrier

Deep, lasting hydration restores the protective lipid layer.

Balances the microbiome
02

Balances the microbiome

Prebiotic inulin and probiotic lactobacillus feed the good microbes.

Builds resilience
03

Builds resilience

Less redness and reactivity. Skin that copes on its own.

Simple, every day
04

Simple, every day

One step that replaces a shelf of half-working products.

The story

Made by a scientist who needed it.

Phree Skin began with a genetic engineer treating her own reactive, atopic skin by working with its biology. It started in a lab, and it is still made that way.

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The story

Made by a scientist
who needed it herself.

Phree Skin began with a genetic engineer trying to calm her own reactive, atopic skin, working with its biology. It started in a lab.

Aleksandra Pivovarchik
Genetic engineer · molecular biologist
Sofia Tech Park
Made by a scientist<br>who needed it herself.
The founder, in the lab · Sofia Tech Park

The story

Made by a scientist
who needed it herself.

Phree Skin began with a genetic engineer trying to calm her own reactive, atopic skin, working with its biology. It started in a lab.

Aleksandra PivovarchikGenetic engineer · molecular biologistSofia Tech Park
Aleksandra Pivovarchik, founder of Phree Skin, in the lab
The founder, in the lab · Sofia Tech Park
Skin and its living barrier, close up
Calm skin in daylight
Years of atopic, reactive skin

The beginning

She lived the problem before she solved it.

For years Aleksandra handled atopic dermatitis the way most people do, with a shelf of creams that each promised relief. Most of them wore her barrier down a little further, and the cortisone ones only bought time.

As a genetic engineer and molecular biologist she asked a different question: what does skin actually want? The answer kept pointing at the same place, the living microbiome and the lipid barrier that protects it.

“My scientific background taught me that skin problems are rooted in our biology, not on the surface. So I stopped trying to silence my skin and started working with it.”

So she went into the lab and built the care her own skin had been missing: a single serum that feeds the microbiome and rebuilds the barrier, developed with a leading laboratory in Sofia Tech Park and released once the science was settled.

Why Phree

It is not a typo. It is a decision.

Ph

For pH, and for Pivovarchik

At its optimal pH, skin works properly: enzymes build the barrier and the microbiome stays in harmony. The “Ph” also carries the founder's own surname.

Phree

The feeling, not the promise

When skin is calm, soft and hydrated, you stop thinking about it. That quiet is the whole goal, the moment care becomes invisible.

Free

“When skin is well, you forget about it”

That, Aleksandra says, is real freedom. Softness. Fullness. Hydration that lasts. Sensitivity that fades.

Phree Skin. Biotech skincare built on science.

Formulating in the Sofia Tech Park lab
Sofia Tech Labs · pharmaceutical and cosmetic forms

The lab

Formulated like biotech. Made like medicine.

Every formula is developed with a leading laboratory in Sofia Tech Park, and held back until the science genuinely holds.

  1. 01

    Chosen for your biology

    Actives are chosen for local conditions and genetics, aiming for maximum effect from the smallest dose that works.

  2. 02

    Airless, all the way down

    Airless packaging keeps every dose sterile and sealed, so the last pump is as active as the first.

  3. 03

    Shipped when the science is settled

    A formula leaves the lab on the day the evidence supports it, and a launch date waits for that day.

The elements

Skin is built to stand up to the world.

What makes cold, wind and hard water bite is a broken barrier. Restore the barrier and the microbiome, and skin does what it was built for: it breathes, adapts and stays well out in the world.

The mission

Scientific insight, with an aesthetic of care.

We build for the person Aleksandra was: worn out by half-working products and wary of the next promise. So we pair scientific insight with an aesthetic of care and respect, and tune every formula to your skin's biology.

Hands holding care
  • Biology first

    We formulate with the skin's own ecosystem.

  • Only when the science is settled

    A formula ships on the day the science holds.

  • Less, done properly

    One considered step, in place of a shelf of compromises.

  • Honest by default

    Claims we can defend, and results we can show.

“I could not buy the care I needed. So I spent years in the lab building it, for my skin and for everyone who was told to just live with it.”
Aleksandra PivovarchikFounder · genetic engineer and molecular biologist

Where to next

Meet the serum her science became.

One serum for the barrier and the microbiome, built on biology, made for skin that has tried everything else.

In the lab

The Lab.

Phree Skin is biotech skincare built on science. Every formula is developed with a leading laboratory in Sofia Tech Park and tuned to the biology of dry, sensitive skin. Each one ships once it has earned it.

Sofia Tech Park laboratoryAirless packaging100% natural origin

From the lab

What we are building, and what we learn.

Notes, research and work in progress, published from the lab as we go. Every entry below is a post, and new ones appear here as we write them.

  1. A daily sunscreen serum, the idea we are testing
    Research

    A daily sunscreen serum, the idea we are testing

    Work in progress from the lab, still at the research stage: a light, daily formula that protects skin while leaving its living microbiome intact. We are studying whether daily protection and barrier care can share one bottle, and it ships on the day the biology says yes.

    Follow the development
  2. Two major causes of dry skin, and how to target them
    Article

    Two major causes of dry skin, and how to target them

    Dryness rarely has a single source. We look at the two that matter most, a weakened barrier and a disrupted microbiome, and how one considered step can address both at once.

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  3. Understanding dry skin: causes, symptoms and solution
    Article

    Understanding dry skin: causes, symptoms and solution

    What tight, flaking, reactive skin is actually telling you, and why lasting relief comes from rebuilding the barrier and the microbiome.

    Read the post
  4. Phree Skin or Free Skin? The name is a decision
    Story

    Phree Skin or Free Skin? The name is a decision

    Why “Ph” points at skin pH, the state where the barrier and the microbiome stay in harmony, and why “P” comes from our founder's surname, Pivovarchik. Freedom is the feeling when your skin finally lets you forget about it.

    Read the story
  5. The science of the skin microbiome
    Science

    The science of the skin microbiome

    The microbiome is the living shield that teaches your skin how to stay in balance. Nourished, sensitivity fades and the barrier repairs. This is the science the whole brand is built on.

    Read the post

Available today

The science is already in one bottle.

Everything the lab believes lives in the Moisture Repair Serum. It rebuilds the barrier and balances the microbiome, today. One considered step, built on science.

Full transparency

Four actives, every one of them named.

100% natural origin. Every ingredient earns its place in the barrier and microbiome story.

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NiacinamideBarrier and tone

Vitamin B3. It strengthens the lipid barrier, evens tone and calms visible redness. The workhorse of the formula.

Inulin · prebioticFeeds the good microbes

A plant fibre that feeds the skin's beneficial bacteria, the food a healthy microbiome needs to thrive.

Lactobacillus · probioticRestores balance

A live-culture ferment that returns the friendly microbes and helps a disrupted microbiome find its balance again.

Lavender and immortelleSoothes and protects

Bulgarian botanicals, antioxidant and soothing. They settle reactivity and give the serum its quiet, natural scent.