Harbor Cleanser
Postbiotic facial mist
Where Skin Alchemy Begins
Modern life overwhelms skin before visible reactions appear.
Habor restores the biological systems that keep skin calm, balanced, and resilient.
Skin Alchemy for the Overload Era
Cleansing is where most barriers are lost. Not through dramatic events — through daily stripping that accumulates into chronic disruption. Harbor was built to reverse that. The first step of the routine that repairs rather than depletes.
Ceramide NP · Phytosphingosine · Lecithin · Squalane — Barrier-lipid complement. Leaves a protective film rather than stripping the surface. Pillar I.
Niacinamide — Vitamin B3. Activates ceramide synthesis from the first step. Pillar I.
Alpha-glucan oligosaccharide · Aurafirm N — Prebiotic and postbiotic pair. Holds the microbiome through the wash. Pillar II.
Panthenol · Allantoin · Centella · Colloidal oat — Calm layer. Soothes rather than provokes. Pillar III.
Ceramide NP — Topical ceramide application restored lamellar body secretion and normalised barrier recovery time in subjects with compromised stratum corneum. Elias PM and Feingold KR, 2001, Journal of Lipid Research.
Niacinamide — Topical niacinamide at 2% increased ceramide synthesis and improved skin barrier function over 8 weeks. Tanno O et al., 2000, British Journal of Dermatology.
Oat postbiotic — Colloidal oatmeal demonstrated direct anti-inflammatory activity and improved barrier function in sensitive skin populations. Cerio R et al., 2010, Journal of Drugs in Dermatology.
When — Once nightly.
How — Pump 1 to 2 times onto damp skin. Massage gently into face and neck. Rinse with lukewarm water.
Dosage — 1 to 2 pumps. 120ml. Approximately 90-day supply.
Harbor addresses three of the five Solani pillars:
Barrier Integrity — Lipid-replacing cleanse that strengthens rather than strips.
Microbiome Balance — Prebiotic and postbiotic support at the most disrupted moment of the routine.
Inflammation Control — Calm-layer botanicals that soothe through the wash.
Full ingredients
Final formulation in development. Surfactant and preservation system in final selection. Confirmed actives: ceramide NP, phytosphingosine, lecithin, squalane, niacinamide, alpha-glucan oligosaccharide, Aurafirm N, panthenol, allantoin, Centella asiatica, colloidal oat. Final INCI to follow.
No sulfates. No fragrance. No stripping. None of the quiet destruction the word clean usually hides.
No unnecessary trade-offs. Only what supports resilience.
Cleansing is where most barriers are lost. This is the cleanse that does not.
Most cleansers do their worst at the very first step, stripping the barrier, scattering the microbiome, and breaking the acid mantle, then calling the tight, squeaking result clean. Harbor refuses that bargain. It lifts the day, the sunscreen, and the city, and leaves the skin's living systems where it found them. The relief of a first step that is not an assault.
Key actives
Ingredients with jobs.
What it does
Skin-identical lipids, the squalane a clear green-gold fraction of olive oil. A cleanser usually subtracts lipids. Harbor leaves a thin film of them as it cleans, so the surface is soft afterward, not stripped.
What it does
It tells the barrier to rebuild rather than only avoiding harm, the same engine that runs the moisturizer, present from the first step.
What it does
Whole oats fermented with Lactobacillus into a soft, milky broth, oat groats and oat flour. A feed-and-signal pair that holds the surface ecology through the one moment most cleansers disrupt it.
What it does
Allantoin from comfrey, the flowering root once called knitbone. Centella, the vivid tiger-grass leaf. The layer that calms rather than provokes.
Cleansing without compromise.
Barrier and microbiome held through the wash.
pH-balanced and sulfate-free.
Fungal-acne safe, fragrance-free.
Lipid-leaving, not lipid-stripping.
Soft skin after, not tight.
The first step that doesn't undo the rest.
Built for skin that breaks out and reacts.
The ritual.
When — Once nightly.
How — Pump 1 to 2 times onto damp skin. Massage gently into face and neck. Rinse with lukewarm water.
Dosage — 1 to 2 pumps. 120ml. Approximately 90-day supply.
What the literature shows.
Ceramide NP
Topical ceramide application restored lamellar body secretion and normalised barrier recovery time in subjects with compromised stratum corneum.
Elias PM and Feingold KR, 2001, Journal of Lipid Research.
Niacinamide
Topical niacinamide at 2% increased ceramide synthesis and improved skin barrier function over 8 weeks.
Tanno O et al., 2000, British Journal of Dermatology.
Oat postbiotic
Colloidal oatmeal demonstrated direct anti-inflammatory activity and improved barrier function in sensitive skin populations.
Cerio R et al., 2010, Journal of Drugs in Dermatology.
Barrier Integrity
Lipid-replacing cleanse that strengthens rather than strips
Microbiome Balance
Prebiotic and postbiotic support at the most disrupted moment of the routine
Inflammation Control
Calm-layer botanicals that soothe through the wash
What it leaves out.
No sulfates, no fragrance, no stripping. None of the quiet destruction the word clean usually hides. The skin does not have to recover from being washed.