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Skincare that works with the light, not against it.

Three serums formulated for the six minutes before a red light session, and the six hours after.

The premise.

Most serums were designed to do one of two things: sit on the skin, or sink in. Neither was designed with a red light panel in mind. That's the gap SEVO was built to close.

Red light therapy works by waking up your mitochondria — the energy-making parts of your skin cells. Once they're activated, they ramp up the work your skin does to rebuild collagen, calm inflammation, and even out tone. It's a well-studied pathway. But most serums have heavy oils, silicones, or mineral pigments that scatter the light before it gets to the cells that need it.

We formulate around two simple rules: don't block the light, and give your skin the molecules your cells actually use to do the rebuilding work. Peptide co-factors, mitochondrial antioxidants, longevity-research polyphenols. Ingredients chosen because their published research runs alongside the published research on red light therapy.

What we commit to.

Research-grade concentrations.

Every active is at the concentration its published research used, not homeopathic traces behind marketing copy. The exact figures appear on the Certificate of Analysis we ship with every order, independently tested.

Third-party lab tested.

Every batch is independently tested for identity, potency, and heavy metals. We publish the certificates of analysis with each shipment. If an active is on the label, it's in the bottle, at the percentage we claim.

No synthetic fragrance, no slop.

No synthetic fragrance, no denatured alcohol, no silicones heavy enough to scatter light, no essential oils as 'actives.' If an ingredient is there, it's doing a job. If it isn't, it isn't.

How Sevo started.

I bought my first red light panel and got curious about what it was actually doing inside the cells. As a geophysicist, when I get a new tool, I read about how it works. So I read.

Red light therapy activates a specific pathway in your skin: it wakes up the mitochondria — the energy-making parts of the cell — and ramps up the work those cells do to rebuild collagen and repair damage. The biology is well-documented. What I couldn't find was a serum formulated around that pathway. Most skincare on the shelves was picked for trending ingredient names, not because the published research on those ingredients runs alongside what red light is already doing.

Around the same time, my sister was struggling with dry, breaking-out skin. She'd been buying tallow balms off Instagram — beeswax, olive oil, ingredients you'd put on leather boots before you'd put them on your face. I'd been reading skincare research anyway. So I started formulating in my kitchen. I sent her a prototype. A few days in, her skin looked calmer than it had in months. She told me to stop giving her prototypes and start making them for other people. SEVO is what came out of that. Three serums where every active was picked because its published research overlaps with red light therapy research. Same cellular pathway, two different inputs.

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