We started with a
complaint.
BlastSkin started in a lab notebook in 2024. Two friends, a pH meter, and a long list of skincare brands hiding what was actually in the bottle. Two years later, here's our answer.
How it actually started.
In 2024, Mia Carrington — a cosmetic chemist with six years inside one of the bigger beauty houses — left her job in Miami with one frustration she couldn't shake: the label never told the truth. "Proprietary blend." "Active complex." "Patented technology." Every press release was a wall, and the percentages that did real work sat behind it.
That same year she met Sami Reyes, a clinical dermatology researcher running ingredient-tolerance studies at a teaching hospital in Tampa. Sami had the opposite problem: she knew which actives worked at which doses, but the products that came in for testing rarely listed the percentage she needed to verify the claim.
They started meeting on weekends in Mia's apartment in Sarasota, Florida. Coffee. A pH meter. A whiteboard with one rule on it: if it's in the formula, the percentage goes on the label.
The first formula was the Vitamin C Glow Boost Serum. It went through six rewrites before they liked the texture. The next nine followed across early 2025. Then two hundred volunteers tested every single one for fourteen weeks — barrier comfort, tolerance, real-world results — before a single bottle shipped.
BlastSkin is what came out the other side. Ten formulas. Every active percentage on the label. No proprietary blends. The label tells you exactly what's in. The product page tells you exactly what it does. That's it. That's the brand.
Three rules. No exceptions.
Clinical doses, on the label.
Each formula uses the percentage studied in peer-reviewed research. The dose on the bottle matches the dose in the paper.
Clean carriers, no fluff.
No drying alcohols, no synthetic dyes, no PEGs, no proprietary blends. Just stable vehicles for the actives.
Barrier-first, always.
Every formula is tested for 14 weeks on real skin and reviewed by a dermatologist before it ships.
Two friends, one lab.
Mia Carrington
Co-founder · Head of Formulation
Cosmetic chemist. Six years inside a major beauty house, including three on retinoid encapsulation. Owns the percentage on every label.
Sami Reyes
Co-founder · Head of Clinical
Dermatology researcher. PhD in skin barrier biology from USF. Runs every BlastSkin tolerance study and writes the ingredient notes you read on the product pages.
Two years, ten formulas.
The notebook.
Mia and Sami meet in a cosmetic chemistry lab in Miami. Both leave with the same complaint: too many products, too few real percentages on the label.
The kitchen.
First batches mixed on a Sarasota kitchen counter. The pH meter sits next to the toaster. The first Vitamin C serum gets six rewrites before week three.
The 200.
Two hundred volunteers test the line for 14 weeks. Every formula has to clear barrier-tolerance metrics — or it goes back into rotation.
BlastSkin is here.
Ten formulas launch with the dose published on every label. No proprietary blends. No marketing dust. Just receipts.
Made on the
Gulf Coast.
We formulate, test and ship from a small studio in Sarasota, Florida. BLASTUP GLOW LLC is the legal entity behind the brand. The team is six people — two founders, three formulators, one ops lead — and we keep it that way on purpose.
3022 22nd Street, Sarasota, Florida 34234
One bottle in your hand.
A lot of work behind it.
Every BlastSkin formula goes through 14 weeks of barrier-tolerance testing before it ships. If it doesn't pass, it doesn't ship.
Try the lineThe label tells the truth.
Your skin will too.
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