392: Skincare 101: Ideal Routines, Best Drugstore Products, Novel Ingredients to Incorporate and When to Stop Chasing Perfection with Nicolas Travis

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🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Nicolas Travis is the founder of the cult-status skincare line, ALLIES OF SKIN. He was inspired to start ALLIES after he had a tragic accident that resulted in devastating facial injuries and multiple infections, changing the trajectory of his life and leading him to create products that would deliver the most visible results using rigorously studied novel formulations and harnessing new active ingredients. He joins the show to discuss the fundamentals of skincare, drugstore products that get the job done, the ideal routines for getting juicy, glass skin, skincare trends and why we should stop chasing perfection. We also talk about treatments he loves including placenta and stem cell injections, some of his favorite ingredients (hello growth factors and retinoids!) and more.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a dear media production.
0:04.7	In a world of ever-changing wellness trends and information, what does it mean to truly be well?
0:11.0	I'm Ariel Lurie and I'm going to explore this with you.
0:14.8	I am bringing you candid conversations that will equip you with everything you need to live your best life and look good doing it.
0:21.7	Think of Well as your go-to resource for all of the latest in wellness and me as your
0:26.2	internet bestie. Well, let's get into it. Hi, everybody, welcome to the show. I know that you are
0:36.0	going to absolutely love today's episode. In fact, I think it has to be
0:40.9	one of my favorite skincare and beauty focused episodes that I've ever done. And it's not like any other
0:46.5	skincare and beauty episode that I have done. So I'm talking to Nicholas Travis. He is a friend. He's also
0:52.8	the founder of the cult status skincare line
0:56.7	allies of skin. I'm sure that you guys are familiar with it, or at least with their growth factor
1:02.1	serum that's had a wait list of, I don't even remember how many thousands of people, but it's
1:07.2	incredible. And we just have such good rapport. And I have so much respect for Nicholas because not only does he have such an incredibly vast knowledge about skin care and ingredients, but he's also super innovative and so, so passionate. He started allies after he had a tragic accident that he talks about in this
1:29.6	episode. It resulted in devastating facial injuries, multiple infections, and that changed the
1:34.8	trajectory of his life and led him to essentially create products that would deliver visible
1:39.8	results using rigorously studied novel formulations, using really new active ingredients that
1:46.9	you don't hear about every day. That is how Allies was born. But when he created the
1:52.5	skincare line, he wanted the products to be able to play well with others. So he has so many great
1:58.0	drugstore recommendations and just basic ingredient recommendations. So you can
2:03.9	take that knowledge and do what you want with it and create your own routine. It does not have
2:08.2	to be all allies products, although they are amazing. I'm currently using, of course, the growth
2:13.6	factor serum. I'm also using the copper tripeptides. I'm obsessed with the tranexamic acid.
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