What Makes Phyla Different From Other Acne Products?

Traditional acne treatments use harsh chemicals like benzoyl peroxide to treat your acne. Not only are these ingredients ineffective in the long term, causing endless cycles of relapse; but they are incredibly damaging to the skin. In fact these ingredients have also been shown to trigger inflammatory pathways associated with aging. Thus, prolonged use of these damaging ingredients causes premature aging and comes at a significant cost to healthy skin. Unfortunately, there has been no meaningful innovation in acne since retinoids were introduced in 1982, which makes it nearly 40 years of stagnation in acne care. 

Phyla is the world’s first and only acne care line to incorporate live phages, the first TRUE skin probiotic. Bacterial overgrowth is a central cause of acne, and recent breakthroughs in skin microbiome research have unveiled mechanisms by which Cutibacterium acnes, or C. acnes, inflames the skin and causes acne. Phyla is building on this important work, and we have discovered novel probiotics, called phages, that exclusively kill the acne bacteria, without harming the good bacteria on your skin. These phages are found on healthy skin.  We make and purify them to the highest standards in small batches for stable incorporation into our serum.

With harsh chemicals like benzoyl peroxide and antibiotics, your skin accumulates damage that is irreversible and evident only years later. By using phages to recalibrate your skin microbiome, not only are we setting you up to have truly healthy skin for life, but you can do this without compromising your skin’s health.

A third of people who find benzoyl peroxide effective have to stop using it, because it is too irritating and inflaming to their skin. The Phyla system is so gentle that you can use it every single day for years, with none of the redness, dryness and irritation of other products. With regular use, the Phortify Phage Serum also evens skin tone, reduces redness, and soothes inflammation.