The Cheap Hack To Transform Your Skin | Active Skin Repair's Justin Gardner

me as foreign on it."

“What do we know now about a product like me as foreign that we didn't know then?”

It uses synthetic antibiotics, it's petroleum based, and up to 20% of people have an allergic reaction to the ingredients, to the synthetic antibiotics. Can be a hormone disruptor, I think, is one of the big things. If you don't need to put that on your body, on your skin, on your kids' body, it's a good thing to avoid.

Bye for one of the coolest things that I keep under my sink. Why are we still putting 1950's petroleum based antibiotic ointment on our kids' cuts? I'm serious, every time someone gets a scrape, we reach for something that was formulated decades ago that contains one of the most common contact allergens disrupts the skin microbiome and doesn't even address inflammation.

Meanwhile, hospitals have been using a molecule for years that your body literally makes on

its own to fight infection bacteria and heal wounds, and most people have never even heard

of it. By becoming a silent threat in the beauty industry because of what it also does for acne, joining me is Justin Gardner, founder of Active Skin Repair. Justin is spent over 20 years in the medical space, working alongside hospitals and doctors on regenerative technologies.

He's founded and sold multiple companies and helped to bring more than 50 medical products to market. But, when he discovered hypochlorous acid, a molecule produced by our own white blood cells to fight infection and support healing, he dropped everything to focus on making it accessible to every day people.

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Tell me the episode that you still can't stop thinking about. Please welcome Justin Gardner, founder of Active Skin Repair, to Culture Apothecary. As a 90-skid, which is what I am, most of my audiences, any time that we got hurt or scraped up, we were told you got to put me as foreign on it.

“What do we know now about a product like Nia's foreign that we didn't know then?”

It uses synthetic antibiotics, it's petroleum based, and up to 20% of people have an allergic reaction to the ingredients, to the synthetic antibiotics. When we use antibiotics on things that don't necessarily need them, what does that do to us? Well, it can create a resistance, a bacterial resistance, but it's also just not necessary

a lot of the time. I mean, with our product, we use a natural occurring molecule hyperchloric acid, so you're getting all of that antimicrobial power, you're getting the ability to kill bacteria, viruses, and fungi without having to use synthetic antibiotics, without having to risk that allergic reaction.

What would be the downside of using products that have petroleum in them? There's a lot of research now coming out on petroleum, and that it can be a hormone disruptor, I think, is one of the big things. It's not that I think it creates a huge health risk, but it's one of those things that if you can avoid, why not at active scammers?

“We have a liquid in a hydrogen cell, so you get a hydrogen cell, you get that ointment”

feel, you can get that moisturization that you're looking without having to use a petroleum. So it's one of those things that I just, if you don't need to put that on your body, on your skin, on your kids' body, it's a good thing to avoid. Yeah, and I didn't really know any of that. I mean, I grew up in a Nia's foreign household.

That's all we used. I had no idea that there were alternatives at all, and I had no idea that that was just slathering on more chemicals in and open wound. And you're basically just allowing those chemicals to just enter your bloodstream. I grew up with Nia's foreign, too.

We just didn't know at that time, and it was at that point, it was produced by Johnston Johnson, right? And so a multi-billion dollar corporation with a lot of money to push out a lot of marketing messages around the product, and it's just what we defaulted to.

I mean, I also grew up eating fruit loops, and I would never, never feed my daughter for

it loops now. There's also this ingredient called Nia Myosin in Nia's foreign. And I guess it's what you're talking about, which is one of the top allergens in the United States. So what is happening on kids that when we're putting that on their cuts, what's happening

to kids? They're actually getting a skin allergic reaction. In fact, if you can talk to just about any dermatologist now, they'll tell you do not use Nia's foreign. They never recommended after any type of procedure because of that high rate of allergic

reaction to that Nia Myosin. It's 20% up to 20% of people have an allergic reaction to that ingredient. So it's just one of those that you really roll the dice that you could actually be creating more harm than you're doing good.

When you're using really like harsh anesthetics, let's take an alcohol, a peroxide, any of those, what they're in a bacterial and they're killing the bacteria, but they're also killing the good bacteria, right? And so it can really throw off your skin microbiome with like a molecule hypercloridic acid, what's really cool is it's actually selective.

So it's able to kill the bad bacteria without hurting the good bacteria.

Do you think that most people when they're shopping down the medicine aisle or the first

aid aisle at Target know any of this? No, I don't. I think we're all becoming as a society, much more educated, having to take on, I think that's what you do great is being able to inform your followers on things that they might not know.

“If you're into the health and wellness community, I think you know you have to go out”

there and do your own research. So I think it started a lot in clean beauty, right? And I think a lot of people started to look at the cosmetics and the moisturizers and all these chemicals that they were putting on their body. And now I think, you know, when you're talking about a product like ours active skin

repair, where you're putting it into open skin, man you don't want to be putting any harsh chemicals that you don't want to.

And especially we get used a lot in the pediatric skin conditions, also on little kids,

like just being able to be more cognizant of what you're putting on and around sensitive areas to. What would be a non toxic or clean ingredient alternative to petroleum based vitamins? Active skin repair is our hydrogel would be a great alternative. It's got that same ointment.

Feel to it. I also think Manuka Honey is really good too. So Manuka is, if you get a medical grade, topical Manuka, that is an antibacterial as well.

“So I think both of those provide really good options.”

And the main ingredient that's in active skin repair is this thing called hypochlorous acid. So what the heck is that in plain English? I mean, it sounds like bleach. Yeah, it doesn't sound great, but it's actually the same molecule our white blood cells are producing.

So the simplest way to put it is, if you get cut, scrape, any type of skin damage. Your body's natural immune response is the same white blood cells to that injury. And inside the white blood cells is a molecule called hypochlorous acid. And so it's your body's natural mechanism to fight off any foreign pathogens. So to fight off any bacteria virus is fun guy.

And it's also your body's natural way to help reduce the inflammatory response from that injury, that condition. And so what we're able to do at active skin repair is replicate that same molecule. So you're applying topically the same way that your immune system's working internally. And you've worked with hospitals for over 20 years, right?

Yes, I have, yeah. So when did you start noticing that hospitals were actually using hypochorus acid in their settings? So previous to this, I owned an agency and we focused primarily in regenerative medicine products. And we've helped companies launch products into the hospital space.

A lot of times there are really expensive biologic products like dermal engineered skin tissues for surgical procedures if somebody has like, if they're vascularly compromised, it could work there. And so this company, this medical device company came to me and they said, we want to launch this technology called hyperchloric acid into the hospital.

And I said great.

And like always, I started to reading all the clinical evidence around it and reading the

medical research and I was so cool, this technology is amazing. And long story short, they said, oh, we really just want to focus on the hospital side, but we do have FDA clearance to be used over the counter in the light bulb just went off my head. At that point, I was already taking samples, bringing it on all my surf trips and all my outdoor adventures and just watch it kind of take off with my friends as well.

And I said, I want to build a company around this. And that was about 10 years ago, we licensed the same medical grade formulation, same process that was being used in these surgical procedures in the hospitals and just made it available to consumers over the count. My mom is a chronic warrior and not about normal things.

Her main obsession in life is parking. If we're going somewhere together, she immediately asks, what's the parking situation,

“straight to parking logistics like she's planning D-Day?”

One time I told her to pick me up at a hotel that way, she goes, okay, but what do I do? Someone starts honking at me. I said, mom, you keep driving. That's the whole system. And the best part is she doesn't even have to be there to worry about parking.

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code Alex Clarke. Sorry, mom. That's so cool. So wait, you're a surfer? So I'm just guessing you've probably had some gnarly, like, cuts and scrapes and surf injuries

in that sense. So have you, like, noticed, active skid repair and just using hypercloris acid, be really helpful, come here to other things that you'd use in the past. If you're a surfer, especially if you're surfing in tropics and stuff like that, staff infections are real.

If you get cut on reef, it can get really bad.

And so this was a product that we'd always take with us, and that was kind of the origin

of it, if you go back 10 years ago, when I was single and kidless at the time, and I'd

“surf a lot more, that's where we were using a lot at the beginning.”

We actually got the world surf leagues, so the professional league took on the product in their medical tent, so they were using it and all the pro surfers as well, if they ever got injured. So yeah, I was kind of the origin of it, but what was so funny is it also works amazing on things like bug bites and some burns and stuff like that.

So that's where you really kind of watch people go, oh my god, I got some burn, and now I spray this on and the inflammation just comes down and it's just not nearly as bad or same thing with bug bites, they go away quicker, they don't, it's just fast. It's by far one of the coolest things that I keep under my sink, and I mean, my audience knows that I have had horrific colds where my nose is chapped from blowing my nose, I just

went through this a week ago, and I'm spraying that, I'm like putting all these solutions and creams on and stuff, and then I really is like, oh, I have active skin repair. As you're doing that, it's like healed in a day, dropped a knife, blade down on my foot, while cooking, my whole little sock filled with blood, that was awful, used active skin repair that healed right up, like it is just miraculous, what this stuff does, and what's interesting

is, so there are multiple products that are hypercourse acid products that are on the market, right? But you say there's a difference between the products that it has a lot to do with pH. It does, yes, and it's been really cool to watch, because when we launched active skin repair about 10 years ago, we were really one of the first hypercourse acids that you could buy

over the counter, it was being adopted into the hospital side of things and the professional setting, but really hadn't been, consumers just didn't know what the molecule was. There is a lot of education. Now it's become really popular, it's actually become really popular in a cosmetic side of things, so people using it as a facial spray, post-workout, especially it works well with acne-prone skin, it can kill pe acne, so it's gotten a lot of

traction there, but what you find is there is a big difference in formulations, and so a lot of these cosmetic brands that are coming out, they don't have to go through a very stringent manufacturing process, they don't really have anything proprietary about their formulation, and what you don't get is a really stabilized hypercloris, and so to get the best effects from

hypercloris acid, you want it to be at a certain parts per million, so it's very certain percentage

of hypercloris, and then you want it to stay around a 5 to 7 pH. And what happens if you don't have a stabilized hypercloris, as it can drop down below that 5 pH, and that can actually become irritating, and a lot of times the hypercloris just diminishes very quickly, and so you don't even have an active ingredient in there anymore, and so you're not getting the efficacy that you would from a medical grade formulation. So what happens if the pH shifts, and it becomes hypercloris,

what does that do? Well it can become irritating to the skin, you wouldn't want it to shift to become a hypercloris. So how many brands do you think are getting that wrong? So we have our own internal research and development department, and every time now there's become so many that has come out in the cosmetic space. One is it's very easy also to come out in the cosmetic. You can use a contract manufacturer, the regulations aren't that tight, you're not having to really

product, whether it's over the counter or into the hospital, we tested to make sure it's the right

parts per million, the right pH, and we know it's gonna stay there for two years. The cosmetic brands

just don't have that as regulations that they have to do, and what we have found is a lot of times another great example is the molecules really finicky, so you can't recipe it with other ingredients, and every time we've tested any with added ingredients, there's no active hypercloris in it, so it's just essentially water. Whoa, so that could be like a huge scam that people could find it in an altar or a Sephora or whatever, some product that says hypercloris acid, you just don't necessarily

know. You don't know, and if you're using it just as a facial spray, not a huge deal if it's not active, I mean you want to buy something that works, but if you're using it for things like cuts and scrapes, anything open, skin, then you might not be using an antimicrobial, which you know, really could be risky. So hypercloris acid is kind of like the beauty ingredient that is being completely overlooked right now. I kind of likened it to hyaluronic acid, you know, that

can't, that had its day, and it went, you know, became really popular, now you see it, and everything,

“I think hypercloris acid is definitely writing its way right now. Anytime you can harness the”

human body, right, and utilize what the power of our own body is such a cool way to, and when you're talking about bacterial inflammation issues, think about how many skin issues deal with bacteria or inflammation. We get people who use it all the time on things like a topic dermatitis with like an X-Muh, because you're getting those flare up from X-Muh, a lot of times that's a bacterial issue. It's an inflammation issue, so we just chokes the WD40 as skin repair, because you can just

put it on everything, or if you, my big fact Greek wedding, it's the wind exit of that, right? It just works on everything. You know, literally, this is the perfect way to put it, and I mean, it makes sense, like, if this is an ingredient that is so, so great for wound healing, it makes sense to me that this would be a bomb ingredient to use for acne. Yeah, and I'll be honest, 10 years ago, when we were using it in like the worst of the worst wounds, a lot of the diabetic wounds, and

“and that's how it was being, never did I think, you know, where this is going to catch on,”

as a facial spray for acne, but it's non-toxic, right? So you don't, it's pH balance.

It's an amazing way to keep your skin clean and clear without having to use toxic in accepted.

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“hyperchorus acid, and I think it just talks to one, the molecule has been incredibly well studied.”

I think there's well over a hundred peer-reviewed medical journals on the on the molecule, so this isn't just me saying it. You can go type in to PubMed and do a bunch of research and go down that rabbit hole of mechanism of action and all the things. It has the same safety profile as saline solution. So you can spray it around eyes, ears, mouth. It's got a great safety profile, but then it works on all these different things and the article goes on to explain from acne to

exima to cuts and scrapes and all these different areas that it can be used on. So this one ingredient kills is 99% of bacteria fungi viruses. Is there a catch like is there any risk? Is there is there a side effect or anything to this that we should know about or like it really is just that pure and good? One formulation does matter. So you want to make sure that you're using it where it's within that right PA trains because if it does get outside that PA trains, then I think there is a little risk

there. It's also being used a lot in hard surface and you can actually buy at home generators to clean like your countertop and stuff like that. And it works great as a disinfectant like that,

but you never want to put that on your skin. So the molecule is an amazing molecule, but it needs

“to be in a stabilized formulation. So I would say formulations really important that you're using”

something that has been formulated to be used on skin, but it's innate to the immune system. So there is no, we have no reported adverse events with sold this to over a million customers now and not one adverse event reported, right? So it's just one of those that it is incredibly safe. I only say to, especially when you talk about like fungus or some bacteria, it's going to be really tricky and I say, you know, it might not work. Like it doesn't work 100% of the time,

sometimes you might have to try another type of ointment, but it's an amazing first line therapy because there is no risk to it. Before you start to slather steroids on, right? This is a great one to say, hey, maybe this can actually help my problem without having to go get a, you know, expensive prescription that's going to probably be using toxic materials. And that's a huge thing, especially, you know, so many moms with babies that are struggling with edgsyma and stuff like that.

“And active skin repair, I mean, is there an age range like you need to be this old to use it or”

anyone can? Anyone can. Again, you come back to the same safety profile as salient solution. So it works amazing on pediatric skin issues. We actually use it in neonatal ICUs, right? So I mean, as early as, you know, life conception, it can, it can be used to think about pediatric and baby skin issues too, as a lot of times they're in really sensitive area. You know, diaper rash is in stuff like that. X-Mun, all those things that you just want to be so careful what you're putting

on your baby, obviously. And so this is just one of those great products that you can feel really safe about using, but also knowing that there's efficacy. It's not just a bomb, right? There's actually something that is working here as an antimicrobial. My audience has been like singing, it's praises for diaper rash. I mean, just like you would not believe the situation we were dealing with active skin repair completely and cleared it up within a matter of a couple of days and nothing

else worked. Like they're, they are like, this is my number one baby shower gift to give somebody do you hear that a lot? Yeah, more and more. Yeah. You know, when we started 10 years ago when we're doing a lot in professional sports and stuff like that, it was all the moms were like, you shouldn't be selling to athletes sell to the moms. Yeah. And we're catching on, but we get amazing reviews there. The thing about diaper rash do that's a bacterial issue that's creating

the rash, right? And so it also works great preventative. It kills 99.9% of bacteria within 15

seconds. So what we always say is spray it on, just let it sit for about 15 seconds. Then you

know the molecules gone to work. And then you can still apply any bombs or, you know, if you're using like a zinc, you can still apply that after you apply our products. So you can still keep using what you're using is just an additional tool to have. What makes something truly non-toxic versus just marketed as clean? For us, we actually go through certification. So we send our

doing is we've been coming out with new products as well. Because I think there can be green, green washing, right? Like just to say that it's non-toxic also doesn't necessarily mean that it's free from batting ingredients. Oh yeah, although it's natural. The word natural is everywhere. That means nothing. Yeah. So I mean, you definitely want non-toxic, but what we've been doing with our products is putting it through a certification called the EWG verification program.

So EWG's environmental working group, they go in and rate all the ingredients that we're using in our skincare products. What ratings do they give you? Arise is a one on hypercleric acid, but then we're a medical device. So they're not doing medical devices through EWG. But for all of the new, we've come out with a hydrating serum, a sunscreen, a lip balm, and we're putting all of those through EWG verification program. And EWG scientists just eat up all your ingredients. Like they

“make you do all the lab reports. So what I think that really does is if you can see that EWG”

verified mark on a product, you know that it's gone through that rigor, that scientific rigor

to know that those are clean non-toxic ingredients. That programs an amazing in EWG just as a

is a resource to go in and type these ingredients into their database and see where they come up. Because a lot, I mean, I'm blown away all the time. We will look up ingredients that we're putting on our daughter and you're like, whoa, that was a four or five, right? Like you don't want to go outside. I would say everybody wants to stay within the one to three on the skincare ratings through EWG. I didn't even know this existed. You have faced and body hydrating serum.

Yeah. Does this have hypercleric acid in it? No, it doesn't. And we would love to get it in there, but again, like I said, the molecule is so finicky every time we try and recipe it and our research team does that, we lose that stability that we need. So what's special about this? This is an important

“hyaluronic acid from Italy. So it's a really high-quality hyaluronic acid. And why we wanted to”

come out with a hyaluronic acid product is because when you use hyperclerists, what can happen is it can be a little dry. And especially if you're using it on things like X-Men stuff like that. So what we wanted to do is have a product that could be complementary. And so this is with it. With it. So hypercleric acid, like our spray will go first and then you would apply the hydrating serum. And that won't make it not work mixing it with this? No. You just want to wait 15 seconds.

molecule goes to work and then you can apply it. Okay. That's a good tip. 15 seconds. Yeah. Okay. I'm obsessed with this because I have bone dry skin. So yeah, I do like to use that,

but it is drying by itself. I definitely always want to put lotion on or something after.

So I want to try it with hyaluronic acid. One of the things that we tried to do here when we formulated this and decided how to market it is, you know, we probably should have done a little too ounce bottle for, you know, $100. But we wanted to make it digestible from a price point and at a volume that you could use on your entire body. So especially because a lot of our customers are using hyperclerists acid for these kind of more chronic skin conditions. So we wanted something

and what you get is a, you know, a lot of hyaluronic acid. A really high quality, all cleaning ingredients, all UWG verified. So you can, you know, feel okay if you're using it on your body and not just your face. When I was a young word, hug, no. When I was in Southern California recently, I booked California Mobile Acupuncture to come to my hotel room. And I'm not exaggerating this woman comes in crystal and in 45 minutes, I had cosmetic acupuncture on my face, red light

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I don't want to say... I have my dream. Our PhD on our team who's the kind of works on the formulation side, he's just brilliant, and so I do trust that if somebody's

going to make this breakthrough, we're going to make the breakthrough. We also get a lot of...

Can you make it in a smaller size? Do you have a one-ounce spray? Oh yeah. The reason why we can't do that is, again, the molecule so finicky, that when you reduce the plastic to hypercloris ratio, it destabilizes the molecule. So again, we're just kind of even the plastic that you use is gotta be this very specific plastic. So there's just so many constraints that you don't get with normal cosmetic ingredients. This is crazy stuff. You're like a mad scientist over here.

I don't know about that. Just mad. Yeah, just crazy. It's shelf stability. Something that consumer should be worried about when it comes to this. Absolutely. What I would say too is one of the quickest things I can look at when I see a hypercloris acid part. Okay, if you go

“into like a so far or something, does it have a expiration date on it? Does it have a lot number on it?”

Yeah, and yours do. Yes, and so that tells me right away that somebody at least has sophistication to know and how they formulate what their expiration date is. Sometimes they'll just be a six-month expiration, which isn't great. We have a two-year shelf life. So we know from day one to day 720 that our product is going to work exactly how we tested it and say it works. You have a full two years on that with an expiration date on the back. Some of them that just don't really understand

the formulation product. It might come off their line and be a 5.5 pH with 120 parts per million. That's great. And then three months later, the hypercloris is just not even existing in there. And so it does. shelf life absolutely does matter. This one ingredient is like a miracle for diaper rash, and it's completely all natural, non-toxic. I don't think a lot of moms know that this exists. What are some of the other crazy purposes that you have heard of people using

active skin repair? Hypocloris acid, and it's healing it, and you're like, "I never

want to thought about that, but that's amazing." If you go on Amazon, I always tell people this,

too, is go look at our reviews and there's, you know, well over 5,000, 5 star reviews. Now, but if you go read some of the ways that people are using, I'm like, "Ooh, that's not good." But you know, they got great results. And so we've heard some crazy stuff. It works great in sensitive areas, too. So things like razor berm, people use it on any type of thing that's a bacterial issue. You can use it around your eyes, ears, and mouth, which is really

good, especially in the winter time when you're getting like those cold sores and the chat blips and stuff like that. But you're saying with the no thing to our daughter gets that as well, and it works great to kind of help that chase skin. You ever see those kids that have this perpetual raw

yet. So like, when I see kids like that, I'm like, "Oh my gosh, please do something about that." But I know that I probably feel different once my own kid. But now that I know about active skincare, I'm like, "I bet that helps with that thing." It does. Yeah, I mean, the things that kids are like, they just have hundreds of skin issues all the time. I mean, especially babies, right? They're

always, you know, do you have a handful of mouth, you have a baby acne, you can have asthma,

you have all the rashes, and then they become kids, and they start walking, and, you know, now you got the cuts and scrapes. Now you've got all those, you know, rashes and japy and that are just coming up from being a kid playing outdoors, which we want. What about like pets? One thing with pets is like, you never want to put a neosporne on a dog because a dog will lick, if they have a skin irritation, they'll lick it. So you never want them ingesting a neosporne with our product completely

“safe, if they're looking at it. And so you get it again, pets just have a ton of skin issues, right?”

Especially eye issues. So it's completely safe to use around the eyes. So a lot of the bacterial eye issues with pets, hot spots, all of that stuff, it works amazing. If you had to replace one item in

a family's home, that's super outdated and toxic, and basically is adding nothing to their life,

with active skin repair, what product would it be? It's just neosporne. I know we keep coming back to it, and it's, you know, it's invented in the 1950s. It's crazy that we're still using it, and it's crazy that, you know, we just kind of whatever our parents used on us, we, you know, kind of accept that and keep using it. And I, I just love more parents to know kind of all the downsides of neosporne, and that there's just better products out there. I mean,

I believe our product is, but there's also other ones too. So it just, it would be one of those things that if you can get rid of it, get rid of it. I told you before we started recording,

“I can think of three items that I, you know, talk about on the show, their sponsors of the show,”

three products that I have never heard one bad review from my audience on, and not trust me.

They let me know if they don't like something or have an issue. Never have I heard one thing about active skin repair. You guys are consistently in top favorites, just just rave reviews being like Alex, thank you so much. You know, for talking about this, I have loved this, this helped my, with my kids, exima or bug bites in summer or whatever it is, sunburn on on spring break. Like, it is just been tremendous for people's lives. It's been tremendous in my life. And I have been

using active skimmer repair for a very long time before we ever talked about it on the show. So I, I have been a fan for a while. So we're so excited to have you in the culture of Pothachary family, where can people get active skin repair with code Alex? You go to active skimmer repair.com. And if they use code Alex, they'll get 20% off. Um, so I would definitely go to our website so that they can use your code. Because that won't work on Amazon. It will not work on Amazon. We are

sold on Amazon. So you can go to Amazon. The other thing is you can follow us at active skimmer repair on Instagram. Uh, so it'll also great resource to, you know, learn more about our brand and all the things that we're doing. But definitely go to active skimmer repair.com. Use code Alex into higher order 20% off. We are in spring break season. And then, you know, before we know we're going to be in summer. What is with the new sunscreen you have? So we have a new hydrating sunscreen

that's more of a daily use sunscreen. But we're really excited because we have two new ones coming out right around end of March. Um, so there'll be a, um, water resistant lotion and stick went through the full EWG process, which we've been working on these now for a couple of years. So we're pretty excited to finally have them fully formulated all the way through the EWG verification process. And they'll be coming out, uh, this spring. Are they mineral based? They are good.

Ooh. Okay. I'm going to love that. If you could offer one remedy to heal us at culture, physically emotionally or spiritually, what would it be? Mine's going to be really simple. It's

“just going to be eat whole foods. That's great. It's one of those that I think were as a, as a father”

now. I just, the things that we put in our body matters so much. I think both inside and topically, but just eat whole foods. Thank you so much, Justin, for creating our just skin repair and coming on culture, particularly. Well, thank you, Alex, for having me. What are the most creative uses you've found for active skin repair? Share in the cute service of Facebook group if you've tried it before and loved it. New episodes come out

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