Ever wonder why your skin acts up no matter what you slather on it? It turns out, those pesky breakouts or dry patches might be shouting something deeper about your level of wellness. PHYTO5 formulates skincare for the five skin types of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM).
Our skincare goes beyond the surface so you can feel awesome inside and out.
Nature’s Cycles and Your Skin
TCM has a really uncanny way of seeing us as part of nature’s big dance where days, seasons, years and phases all spin together.
Ancient Chinese thinkers watched how these cycles influence plants, animals, and humans. They figured out that vital energy (they call it chi) flows through everything, and when it’s flow is off, skin and body absolutely reflects it.
TCM says it’s all about energy — the push and pull of yin and yang striving to keep the natural world thriving and humming in perfection.
They took it further with the 5-Element Theory where Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water each associate with a season and a prevailing energy.
It’s like a roadmap for why your skin does what it does.
When the energy of the season or element is out of imbalance, you see it on the face.
Balance that flow, and you’re not just treating skin, you’re leveling up your whole wellness game.
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The 5 Skin Types (and What They Mean)
PHYTO5 digs into these five energy imbalances to pinpoint your skin type.
It’s less about oily or dry and more about what’s driving that oiliness or dryness.
Here are the five skin types of TCM. See which one sounds like you:
Wood (the winds of Spring): You energy gets stuck. Think oily skin, blackheads, or hyperpigmentation. Your scalp can be oily too. Spring’s renewal has hit a roadblock.
Fire (the heat of Summer): Too much sizzle shows us as red, sensitive, or blotchy skin and maybe even couperose or a sweaty scalp. Your blood’s rushing like a hot July day.
Earth (the humidity of between seasons periods): Toxins are piling up showing up as blemishes, acne, enlarged pores, or sluggish flow of lymph. Hair looks heavy and scalp can be pimply. It’s the in-between chaos of season swapping from Spring to Summer, Summer to Fall, Fall to Winter and Winter to Spring again.
Metal (the start of dryness and beginning fade of Fall): You’ll notice surface flakiness, dull skin, brittle hair, and maybe even spider veins in legs. Like autumn leaves, your skin’s beginning to dry.
Water (withering of the season): Here you’ve got dehydrated skin, wrinkles, puffy eyes, or limp hair. Water’s either pooling or draining too fast.
PHYTO5’s Fix: Natural Skincare for Skin Types
Here’s where PHYTO5 steps in with five lines tailored to each season.
Each line’s products are rich with essential oils and plant extracts to help tackle your skin condition imbalance.
Wood line purifies oiliness.
Fire line cools and calms the heat.
Earth line clarifies anddetoxifies.
Metal line oxygenates and mineralizes.
And Water line firms and tones.
This is truly natural skincare for all five skin types, dialed into your specific energy imbalance. It syncs you with nature’s seasonal rhythm.
So, which of the five skin types are you?
With natural skincare for skin types and holistic skincare benefits from PHYTO5, you’re not just treating skin — you’re rewriting how you age.
Maybe it’s time to glow like you mean it.