Sum Of All Beauty

Your skincare label tells you what’s in the bottle. But it doesn’t tell you the whole story.

After more than 25 years developing beauty products, I want to help you understand what matters for your skin, especially in midlife.

Follow me here at SUM OF ALL for practical skincare insights and a closer look at the choices I make as a founder.

I joined Mary Lee on The Menopause Disruptor Podcast to talk about midlife skin, ingredients, and why I created SUM OF ALL.
Hear the full conversation through the link in our bio.

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You’ve already lived enough to know what you’re capable of. And you’re nowhere near done.

Your life doesn’t pause in midlife. Your beauty doesn’t either.

I created SUM OF ALL because I believe there is still so much possibility ahead of us. Women in midlife are building companies, changing careers, leading families, returning to work and beginning again. Beauty should see that possibility too.

Beauty Without Pause means moving forward with time, not fighting it. It also means building a company that creates meaningful opportunities for women returning to the workforce.

What are you building, beginning, or returning to right now? Tell us in the comments, we want to celebrate it with you.

Know your stage.

Support your skin accordingly.

Beauty without pause.

Learn more on our website (Sumofall.com)

Comment “PEPTIDE” to learn more about peptide as a whole and what we use in our skincare.

Peptides aren’t one thing. They’re a whole category of ingredients, and different peptides send different messages to your skin.

Every Sum of All formula uses tetra peptides for structure. Our Replenishing Night Cream uses pea derived peptides that support tone and texture. Our Boosting Serum uses a biomimetic collagen type three peptide for firmness, hydration, and barrier support.

Same category, completely different messages.

Save this so you know what to actually look for next time you check an ingredient label.

Know your stage. Support your skin accordingly. Beauty without pause.

The eye area is one of the first places midlife shows up, and when you’re working on it, you still want to feel good going out tonight, not just in 28 days.

That’s the tension most eye creams don’t solve. You end up choosing between an immediate glow and long term results.

Our Flash Effect Eye Cream does both. Up to 40% reduction in the look of wrinkles within 30 minutes, with continued improvement in wrinkles and hydration tested through 28 days.

You should not have to choose between feeling good today and investing in your skin’s future.

Know your stage. Support your skin accordingly. Beauty without pause.

WHAT IT IS
Chaga is a dark fungus that grows primarily on birch trees in cold northern regions. Long before it appeared in skincare, people brewed it as an infusion or tonic. Its documented use dates to at least the 16th century.

WHY WE CHOSE THIS ONE
Our version comes from Canada’s yellow birch region and uses pressurized-water extraction to capture the polyphenols we selected it for.

WHAT THE TESTING SHOWED
Laboratory testing of the extract demonstrated antioxidant activity and effects on markers related to the skin barrier and epidermal cohesion. In a four-week, placebo-controlled study of the ingredient on women with reactive, intolerant skin and redness, instrumental testing showed a significant reduction in redness from one week and an improvement in brightness. Participants also reported that skin felt more soothed, less irritable and healthier.

Inside AP², Chaga is the adaptogen, working alongside phytoestrogens and peptides in every SUM OF ALL formula.

Save this for the next time someone asks what’s actually in your skincare, and follow along for more ingredient deep dives like this one.

A great skincare product can be beautiful but if it doesn’t fit what your skin actually needs, is it really the right product for you?

As skin changes through perimenopause and menopause, its needs can change too. Hydration, texture, tone, firmness, and renewal all become part of a different conversation.

SUM OF ALL creates hormone conscious skincare designed specifically with midlife skin in mind because your skincare should evolve with you, not work against you.

This is Beauty Without Pause

Save this if your skin has been feeling different lately, and follow SUM OF ALL for more on perimenopause skincare, menopause skincare, mature skin, hormonal skin changes, hydration, skin texture, and healthy aging.

The hot flashes. The sleep changes. The irregular periods. We tend to call the entire experience menopause. No wonder perimenopause is so easy to miss.

There is more menopause information everywhere now. Our role is to help make sense of it and identify what is most relevant to skin. Precision is a useful place to begin.

Perimenopause is the transition leading to natural menopause and may continue for several years.

Menopause is confirmed after 12 consecutive months without a menstrual period when there is no other medical cause. It is a point in time.

Postmenopause is the stage after that point.

Why does this matter to a skincare brand? Because shifts in hydration, barrier function, firmness, tone and texture may begin during perimenopause, before menopause is confirmed. Understanding that earlier gives you the opportunity to support skin proactively, rather than waiting until visible shifts become pronounced and then trying to correct them.

SUM OF ALL was designed for the full peri- to post-menopausal continuum. Skin does not wait for the label.

Not all “clean” ingredient lists are created equal. Two products can list the exact same ingredient at the exact same percentage and still work completely differently on your skin.

It’s easy to feel like you need a science degree just to read a label, and you’re not alone in that. The truth is, sourcing and extraction method matter as much as what’s on the list.

That’s the difference we build into every formula. Same ingredient, different standard.

Save this before your next skincare purchase, so you know what to actually look for.

Know your stage.

Support your skin accordingly.

Beauty without pause.