PureVibe publishes full ingredient lists — with function notes and botanical sourcing — for every product it makes. Not because regulations require it. Because if you're going to make a claim, you should be able to back it up.
Natalie Brooks spent a decade as a licensed esthetician in Beverly Hills. In that time she watched clients cycle through brand after brand — reacting to products that claimed "natural" on the front label but listed sodium lauryl sulfate, synthetic fragrance, and formaldehyde-releasing preservatives on the back. One brand, a well-distributed Sephora Clean label, carried five ingredients from the EWG blacklist. The front label said "gentle." The back label told a different story.
She started PureVibe in 2022 to close that gap. The idea was not to make products that sounded clean — it was to make products that could survive an INCI audit from a customer who reads labels. Every formulation decision goes through one test: if someone Googled every ingredient, would they be comfortable with every answer?
The subscription model came from a practical insight: one well-formulated cleanser used consistently outperforms a rotating collection of trending serums. Natalie built the replenishment cadence — 30, 45, or 60 days — around actual depletion rates, not marketing logic.
"If it can't survive a label audit, it doesn't go in the formula."
That's the standard Natalie set when she wrote the first ingredient brief. Every raw material has a sourcing note, a function, and a plain-language explanation published on the product page. No proprietary blends. No "fragrance" as a catch-all. Botanical sources are named by country — chamomile from Egypt, green tea from Japan, aloe vera from Texas, centella asiatica from Korea — because vague origins are how mislabeling starts.
Parabens (methyl-, propyl-, butyl-, ethylparaben). Sulfates (SLS and SLES). Phthalates. Synthetic fragrance or "parfum" as a blanket term. Formaldehyde donors (DMDM hydantoin, diazolidinyl urea, imidazolidinyl urea). Mineral oil. PEGs. Oxybenzone. These are not marketing restrictions — they are the EWG and Sephora Clean blacklisted compounds we explicitly exclude, and the exclusion is verifiable in every published ingredient list.
Clean does not mean ineffective. Every ingredient in a PureVibe formula is there because it has a documented function — not because it's inexpensive to source or because it pads viscosity.
The formulation team brings cosmetic chemistry and clinical dermatology backgrounds. They wrote the banned-substance list. They audit every supplier. They sign off on every stability study before a product ships.
Meet the Team