Biochemistry Backed Skincare Formulations Ft. Kat Burki
Skin Anarchy
Ekta et al.
4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Skin Anarchy, host Dr. Ekta sits down with Kat Burki to explore biochemistry as a smarter approach to skincare formulation. With a background spanning epidemiology and healthcare, Kat brings a unique lens to beauty: treating the skin as a living organ with its own complex needs.
What makes her philosophy stand out is the insistence on synergy. Rather than chasing “hero ingredients,” Kat focuses on how ingredients interact—pairing vitamins, peptides, and cofactors in ways that mirror how the body naturally processes them. She emphasizes that delivery systems and supportive bases are just as important as what’s in the formula. For Kat, skincare is about networks of ingredients working together, not isolated actives.
Listeners will also hear her perspective on the skin’s own microbiome, and why protecting its balance is critical to resilience and long-term health.
From her cult-favorite Vitamin C Intensive Face Cream to her innovative focus on scalp health, Kat shares how biochemistry can transform not just product design but the way we think about skin itself. She leaves us with practical advice: read labels wisely, look for biome support, and always ask whether a formula makes biological sense. Tune in to discover how skincare can move beyond hype to real healing with Kat Burki.
To learn more about Kat Burki, visit her website and social media.
CHAPTERS:
(0:00) Introduction & Guest Welcome
(0:51) Kat’s Background & Path to Skincare
(1:48) Gut Health, Nutrition & Skin Connection
(4:13) Nutritional Biochemistry & Skincare Synergy
(7:22) Misconceptions in Nutrition & Topical Delivery
(9:02) Formulation Philosophy & Product Design
(12:04) Biome-Focused Products & Healing Approach
(14:03) Vitamins, Co-Factors & Biotech Trends
(16:25) Peptides, Hype & Real Science
(22:03) Brand Philosophy, Labs & First Hero Product
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, welcome back to Skin Energy. |
| 0:04.0 | This is your host, Echo. |
| 0:05.2 | I'm really excited about our guest today because her brand is blending nutritional science with |
| 0:11.0 | skincare. |
| 0:12.0 | And we're going to be talking a lot about things like the gut skin access and understanding |
| 0:16.1 | what your gut physiology and the pathologies that take place can do for your skin and how that can reflect |
| 0:22.4 | on your skin and why skincare is a viable way of kind of, you know, having this maintenance |
| 0:27.4 | therapy in your day to day. So without further ado, please welcome Kat Berkey. Welcome, |
| 0:32.3 | thank you for having me. Yeah, I'm excited to host you. I'm excited to learn from you today |
| 0:37.4 | and dive into the brand. It's a beautiful brand, by the way. I've been really enjoying it. I've been testing it myself. So it's been really lovely. Nice to hear that. Yeah. I'd love to learn about your background though. If you could walk us down memory lane, tell us about your background and what got you into, you know, wanting to create a brand and, |
| 0:55.6 | you know, bringing it into the skincare space. Tell us a little bit more about that. |
| 1:00.3 | Yeah. So as you mentioned, my undergrad was nutrition, so it was really what my foundation was. |
| 1:06.5 | And I think where I took that was more in understanding and the biology of how we uptake nutrients, |
| 1:14.2 | how our body works with them. |
| 1:16.5 | And then my future career went into health care law and then epidemiology. |
| 1:21.7 | And then I worked in disease management. |
| 1:23.8 | So within disease management, really looking at all of these disease states, the top five, |
| 1:30.8 | from my perspective, had an element of, of course they do, but what I was interested in was the |
| 1:37.0 | element of nutrition within these disease groups. |
| 1:40.9 | So from that also, I learned over time really how important the gut health is. |
| 1:47.0 | Gut is just even now being developed and understanding how it plays a part in Alzheimer's or |
| 1:52.8 | whatever it happens to be, definitely our mood and how it plays a part in health in general. |
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