🌍 Black skin has its history…

🌍 “Black skin has its history”

Understanding your origins to take better care of them.

✨ One skin, one African identity

Black skin is more than just a color. It carries the history of a continent, a diaspora, a resistance, and a long-scorned beauty. It is rich in melanin, but also in memory. Taking care of your skin is honoring your heritage, your body, and your identity.

🧬 Scientifically unique skin

Black and mixed-race skin has specific biological characteristics:

• More melanin : better protection against the sun, but also more risk of hyperpigmentation in the case of spots, scars or friction.
• More fragile hydrolipidic film : tendency to dehydration, often confused with oily skin.
• More visible pores : especially in the T-zone, which requires purifying but non-aggressive care.
• Increased skin reactivity : irritations or poorly dosed products often leave more visible marks that take longer to treat.

🧪 Skin misunderstood by the cosmetic industry

For decades, conventional cosmetics ignored the specificities of Black skin. Too many brands offered:

• Whitening creams in the name of a fantasized “clear complexion”,
• Exfoliants that are too strong cause burns or stains,
• Unsuitable routines, without any real unifying, hydrating or soothing action for our real needs.

🫶🏿 The revolution by and for us

Today, a new generation is taking back control of their skin. Brands like The Clean'ic were born out of an urgent need for tailored formulas, targeted expertise, and a deep respect for Afro-descendant identity.

At the clean'ic ® , we design each treatment with a goal:

🫰🏾Reveal your natural light, not change it.

Our products don't seek to transform your skin, but to restore its radiance, hydrate it, unify it, protect it, and enhance it. This is the legacy we want to uphold.

🖤 Heritage + science = strength

Understanding your skin also means understanding your past. It means refusing shame, refusing erasure. It means saying:

“I am black, beautiful, and I deserve care that understands me.”

And every time you carefully cleanse, exfoliate, or moisturize your skin, you're not "just" doing a beauty routine.

You are performing an act of respect, healing, and transmission.

🎙️ And you?

Did you grow up with a skincare routine? Or did you have to learn on your own what worked for you?

🤎 Tell us your story in the comments or on Instagram with the hashtag #JournalDeSaïd