CURAlive Is Live Care for Your Skin
CURAlive brings soul and sophisticated simplicity to skin care, backed by rigorous science and care for your overall health. CURAlive is a triple-fermented active botanical serum formulated by me to address underlying changes in the skin’s healthy functioning related to the inflammatory response, oxidative stress, and microbiome changes in the skin as we age. I am convinced that these three stresses underpin most of the common sun- and age-related issues of the skin.
While it is true that excessive sun exposure contributes to skin damage, what is also true but not discussed is that as the body ages, the skin’s microbiome changes, and so does the body’s response to inflammation and oxidative stress. CURAlive delivers potent botanical ferment nutrients to address these root concerns.
Why CURAlive?
In 2013, I was diagnosed with skin cancer (squamous cell carcinoma). True to my philosophy about caring for my health, my first response was to ask if surgery was urgent. My dermatologist gave me three months to wait. I would treat the root issues by formulating and applying daily a potent active botanical serum. When I returned to the dermatologist three months after the biopsy, he scratched his head and said he had no idea how this could be but the cancer was gone. That was the accidental beginning of CURAlive and extensive research and formulation development since.
I cannot claim that CURAlive cured my cancer. Nor would I. Correlation and cause are not the same. But I can say this serum is formulated to address what happens to sun-damaged skin and changes that come with age.
What is CURAlive’s Philosophy?
Skin health is a window into health within. Healthy, radiant skin shines through a healthy life.
Since skin is the largest organ of the body and nearly as absorptive as the gut, it becomes a reservoir for what we put on it, which passes through to the whole body.
Care for your health is care for your skin.
Care for your skin is care for your health.
CURAlive is not interested in anti-aging; nor is it a skincare beauty line.
CURAlive aims to be re-generative skin care formulated on the belief that care for skin is not counter to embracing age.
What’s in CURAlive?
We blend ancient traditions with the best of modern, holistic science to create a pure skincare serum for all skin types and concerns. We prepare our recently introduced re-generative serum in small batches from organic and wild-harvested botanical ferments, plus the highest quality, food-grade hyaluronic acid formulated to reach and hydrate deeper layers of the skin. The addition of liposomal vitamin C supports collagen production—the skeleton of the skin.
CURAlive Re-generative Serum is blended through fermentation of active botanicals, which include green and black tea, rosehips and rose petals, ginger, chamomile, holy basil, pomegranate and carrot seed, lavender, aloe, and bergamot to name a few. Through a unique fermentation process, these botanicals support the skin’s immune system, quiet the skin’s stress response, and nourish the skin’s natural microbiome to keep skin clear and vibrant.
The triple-fermentation process also makes the ingredients more easily absorbable. For instance, hyaluronic acid is 10X more absorbable after it is fermented. Certain ingredients lose important compounds with heat extraction. Fermentation not only reduces this nutrient compound loss. It activates the nutrients for delivery.
The result is a richly hydrating serum formulated to counter the effects of sun damage, age-related changes to the microbiome and immune system of the skin, and inflammatory skin conditions.
Where Can I Find CURAlive?
We sell CURAlive Re-generative Serum on Etsy and here, by email.
Our hope is to create an intimate, connected experience and redefine skin care as health care.
By keeping CURAlive relationship-based, we also honor that CURAlive is live. We small-batch produce it and have only limited numbers available each month.
Email us:
reneeeliphd@substack.com
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Who is CURAlive?
Renée Eli, Ph.D. is formulator of CURAlive. She is a contemplative scholar who has dedicated her life to nurturing whole health. As a retired healthcare provider recognizing that chronic health concerns are a gateway to wholeness-making, Renée mentors individuals who come to this threshold to embark on an inner life journey of discovery through radical transformation of consciousness, calling on phytotherapeutics (functional plants) and micronutrient education to support the process. For the past two decades, Renée has researched, written, and taught about the body and human becoming. She is former Chief Researcher, Educator, and Formulator of a women’s probio-phytotherapeutic supplements line and provides formulation guidance to nutritional supplements companies worldwide. Renée is the recipient of a research fellowship from Esalen Institute’s Center for Theory and Research for her work contributing to the Future of the Body project, Herbal Medicine Fellow with the Association for the Advancement of Restorative Medicine, and recipient of the inaugural North Carolina Governor’s Award for Innovation for her efforts to bridge communities and those who grow their food. She sits on the Educator Council Board of the Center for Education, Imagination and the Natural World, a work closely mentored by Thomas Berry.
Kerri Laryea, Ph.D. oversees operations for CURAlive. She is recognized for her research on deep listening and presence, her exceptional coaching skills, and excellent collaborative problem-solving to nurture sustainable individual and organizational change. She has a long history as an external consultant in diverse industries, partnering with leaders to achieve business agility and sustainable change through engagements that elicit the wisdom within their organizations, especially in the integrative healthcare sector. Her expertise lies at the dynamic intersection of change theory and learning theory. Kerri brings her diverse knowledge and practice of cultivating health to CURA and as head of operations for CURAlive to nurture supportive conversation in this space and a welcoming client experience at CURAlive.
This is VERY exciting! When I saw a picture of you yesterday, I made a remark to myself about how lovely your skin is. 🤗
I have found an immediate improvement in my skin using CURAlive. I admit to being a skeptic about skin care products but began using it with an open mind and was amazed!
First off the smell and feel of it are gorgeous and these things are important to me, but more important is that it is a live product. Secondly, you don't need much of it so it will last for it's lifetime. Also, it comes in glass with as little plastic as it's possible to use which I appreciate! And lastly, the results are nothing short of amazing. I would not have believed it if I didn't try it myself. My skin feels the softest it's felt in many years, I see less fine lines and it looks less 'Canadian-mountain-elements' and more 'dewey-expensive-spa' without the expensive and without the spa!
In short, I love this product and highly recommend. As well, I have no affiliation with it so this is an unbiased opinion.