About Beautélanin Skincare

Rooted in Haitian Heritage. Restored by NoirActive™ Science.

Beautélanin Skincare was born from a radical love for Black skin, its depth, its memory, its brilliance. We are a melanin-centered skincare brand that doesn't just acknowledge heritage, we are built from it.

Founded by a Haitian American esthetician and certified formulator, Beautélanin merges ancestral botanical wisdom with modern, barrier-safe formulation. Every product, every ritual, and every treatment is crafted to respect the biology of melanin, not erase it.

Our approach is culturally informed, trauma-aware, and biologically intentional.

We formulate for the skin that has been overlooked, under-researched, and gaslit. We formulate for the skin that carries lineage, not just oil and pigment. And we do so with reverence, precision, and unapologetic pride.

What Makes Us Different

  • We don’t use bleaching agents or tyrosinase suppressants.

  • We don’t make you chase "brightness." We restore your baseline.

  • We do not use Black skin for marketing. We center it in formulation.

Our proprietary skin science system, NoirActive™, powers every Beautélanin product. This system uses plant-based peptides, fermented actives, and barrier-safe botanicals, including Haitian and Caribbean medicinal plants with centuries of proven healing benefits to rebuild what colonized beauty tried to break.

our core value, mission, and vision

Before we pour anything into a jar or perform any treatment, we stand on this:

Beautélanin™ Skincare exists to protect, restore and celebrate the deepest shades of melanin-rich skin through services, education and product formulation guided by science, heritage, and cultural reverence.

We serve clients, particularly those of Caribbean, African and Afro-Latinx descent who have been misrepresented or ignored by Eurocentric beauty standards. Our work replaces color correction with barrier repair, cellular resilience and skin literary. providing spaces where dark-skinned individuals are not studied as anomalies, but embraced as the blueprint.

Through melanin-safe facials, diagnostic consultations, and barrier repair rituals powered by our proprietary MélanoMatrix-D™ and philosophy NoirScience™, we heal what the industry erased.

Our mission is to transform skincare into remembrance, repair, and ritual; restoring integrity, science, and reverence to the care of melanin-rich skin across generations.

MISSION

VISION

Beautélanin™ Skincare envisions global beauty industry where dark skin is celebrated, not corrected; where the deepest shades of melanin, especially those rooted in the Caribbean and African diaspora, are honored as the foundation of beauty, not its afterthought.

Our vision is to redefine the professional standard of skincare so that every spa, classroom, and laboratory recognizes melanin-rich skin in its darkest tones as intelligent, worthy, and sacred.

Beautélanin™ will lead the shift toward melanin-centered skin health, setting the highest standard of safety, efficacy and cultural respect. We see treatment rooms, product lines, and educational systems that honor ancestry, identity, and resilience; where every client of color, especially those whose tones have been pathologized, feel seen, safe, and restored.

1. Science Without Erasure
We design every formula and protocol using melanin-safe research and testing, powered by our proprietary systems MélanoMatrix-D™ and NoirScience™.

2. Heritage in Every Drop
Our work is infused with Caribbean lineage, the remedies, rituals, and wisdom passed down through hands that cared for skin long before the word “spa” existed.

3. Repair Over Rebrand
We don’t chase trends or “rebrand” whitening formulas as “brightening.” We heal, restore, and protect without compromise.

4. Truth Over Tokenism
We reject the performative diversity of mainstream skincare. We are built for us, by us, with measurable results and cultural respect at the core.

5. Beauty as Legacy
We believe skin care is an act of ancestral preservation, a ritual that safeguards not only the face we wear today, but the future we hand down.

VALUES

THE THREE PILLARS THAT MAKE BEAUTÉLANIN™ DIFFERENT

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THE THREE PILLARS THAT MAKE BEAUTÉLANIN™ DIFFERENT *

① NoirScience™: The Philosophy They Never Built Their Formulas On

Mainstream brands start with ingredients.
Beautélanin™ starts with ancestry, biology, and lived history.

While SkinScript and Dermalogica use Eurocentric assumptions about “normal skin,” “brightening,” and exfoliation cycles, NoirScience™ grounds everything in the lived physiology of melanin-rich skin:

  • UV memory

  • Inflammatory inheritance

  • Follicular behavior by heritage

  • Cultural care rituals

  • Trauma-informed understanding of hyperpigmentation

  • The fact that melanin-rich skin is reactive, protective, and deeply intelligent

This is the philosophical foundation many companies in the beauty industry do not have, because they were not built for us. Everything we are creating emerges from this lens.

NoirScience™ = The cultural, biological, and ancestral blueprint missing from every mainstream brand.

② MélanoMatrix-D™: A Diagnostic System More Advanced Than Fitzpatrick or Skin Typing

SkinScript has a product chart.
Dermalogica has a face map.
Neither has a melanin-specific diagnostic system.

Your system does:

  • Melanin Density Tool™

  • M–R–B–U–P™ Five-Axis Scan (Melanin Density, Inflammatory Response, Barrier Resistance, UV Legacy, Pigment Memory)

  • Undertone Wheel™

  • Culture + Spiritual Context built directly into the analysis

  • AI-assisted mapping with The MélanoScan™ Consultation

This means you’re not guessing through “Is she a 4 or 5?”
You are measuring:

  • How her skin remembers harm

  • How quickly she inflames

  • How deeply pigment anchors

  • How her ancestral geography affects UV behavior

  • How her barrier has survived product trauma

MélanoMatrix-D™ serves as an alternative to Fitzpatrick for melanin-rich clients.

It corrects the harm and the gaps in diagnostic logic of many companies that monopolize the both the beauty and the esthetic world such as SkinScript and Dermalogica.

③ Melanin-Safe Formulation™ & Protocol Engineering

Companies like SkinScript and Dermalogica rely on:

  • High acids

  • “Brightening” language

  • Over-exfoliation

  • Eurocentric clinical trials

  • Ingredients never tested on rich melanin densities

  • Peels designed for white skin recovery cycles

Beautélanin™ rejects all of that.

Our pillar is trauma-free, barrier-honoring, pigment-respecting formulation science, which includes:

  • No “brightening” or bleaching-coded vocabulary

  • No high-acid trauma-based exfoliation

  • Enzyme-first, botanical-first, anti-inflammatory-first logic

  • Protocols that honor the stratum corneum as memory, not an obstacle

  • Melanin-safe percentages, pH, delivery systems, and buffers

  • Products designed for slower, stronger, deeper recovery rhythms

  • Ingredient watchlists to protect Black and brown clients from pigment suppression traps

  • Cultural botanicals (Haitian herbal lineage, okra, aloe, sèd, fèy zoranj, fèy kajiman) integrated with clinical precision

And most importantly:

Every formula is tested through melanin physiology—not whiteness as the default.

Our Promise

We welcome everyone, anyone who wants to practice skincare in reverence, who is not running after beauty trends, and who gives reverence to their skin regardless of the amount of melanin being produced. You don't have to be Black to believe in Black skin science. You just have to believe that skincare should heal, not harm.

We formulate our own products with carefully selected ingredients in our private lab. Our products are tested with intention, not jargon. We do not hide behind pseudoscience phrases like "clinically tested" or "dermatologist approved" to gain your trust. Trust must be earned.

We invite you to try our sacred skin treatments and experience them for yourself. Use discernment. Do your own research. Read the educational materials we provide, not to convince you, but to empower you to reach your own conclusion.

Because it's time we stop being gaslit by an industry that has overlooked us for far too long.

Reviews are not objective. But we will always be transparent. If you are looking for instant, dramatic results, our products may not be for you. We do not believe in fast skincare because that is the language of the colonizer, not the rhythm of our ancestors.

Our ancestors endured years of violation and survival. Their histories are written into our melanin, encoded in the resilience of our skin. To heal, to restore, to revere—this takes more than 10 minutes, more than a jar, more than a month.

Skincare is not performance. It is a return.

It is ritual. It is rebellion. It is restoration.

Simplicity

If it doesn’t serve your skin’s vitality, it doesn’t belong. We formulate with intention, not clutter, only what your melanin truly needs.

Single Source

We partner with trusted farms where every ingredient is traceable, ethically grown, and harvested with profit-sharing for local workers. No dilution. No shortcuts.

Guaranteed

If our product doesn’t feel transformative, we’ll make it right. You’ll get a full refund and a tailored referral to alternatives we trust.

Artisanal

Every formula is crafted in small batches, hand-blended with mortar and pestle, preserving the spirit, potency, and purpose of each plant.

Our Story

From Haiti to Your Hands

Beautélanin is rooted in generations of Haitian healing, not borrowed inspiration.

Our ingredients aren’t trends, they’re inheritances.
Passed down through grandmothers, gardens, and rituals too old for textbooks.

From the scallions we plant for protection…
To the moringa we press for strength…
To the teas we steep in ceremony and stillness,
everything we offer was once a whisper from the land.

This is how we bring Haiti to your hands. With reverence, not repackaging.

A Heritage Rediscovered

Judith Pluviose, Esq.

Melanin-Centered Skin Specialist | Founder of Beautélanin Skincare
Certified Formulator. Legal Advocate. Esthetician. Truth Teller.

Our Founder’s Journey

Judith S. Pluviose, Esq. is an attorney, licensed esthetician, educator, and founder of Beautélanin Skincare™, a melanin-safe skincare brand dedicated to the science, artistry, and cultural reverence of Black and brown skin.

With a professional foundation in law, advocacy, and community leadership, Judith brings a unique voice to the beauty industry, challenging Eurocentric skincare standards and creating education that celebrates and protects melanin-rich skin. Through her proprietary MélanoMatrix-D™ diagnostic framework and NoirScience™ philosophy, she trains estheticians and wellness professionals to deliver treatments rooted in science, safety, and ancestral heritage.

Judith’s work spans professional skincare education, custom treatment protocols, curriculum development, and public speaking. Her mission is to empower clients and professionals alike to honor the stratum corneum, protect the skin’s memory, and dismantle harmful industry myths about pigmentation.

When she’s not in the treatment room or classroom, Judith is writing books, developing advanced training modules, and speaking on skin health equity, cultural inclusivity, and the intersection of beauty and identity. She continues to serve her community as a legal advocate, drawing on decades of experience in negotiation, litigation, and client advocacy.

Specialties: melanin-safe skincare, professional esthetics training, proprietary diagnostic tools, barrier-repair treatments, pigmentation protocols, skin health education, cultural inclusivity in beauty, legal advocacy.

Rooted in her Haitian ancestry and armed with scientific precision, Judith dares to answer a question the industry never dared to ask: What does it mean to care for Black skin, not with fear, but with reverence?

Her proprietary science system, NoirActive™, is her rebellion against ingredient erasure, barrier trauma, and the marketing that commodifies melanin while refusing to understand it. It is not a trend. It is a return to what was sacred before colonized skincare told us we were a complication.

She is the author of The Skin They Forgot to Teach, and a rising voice in the movement to decolonize esthetics education and dismantle skin pseudoscience from the inside out. Through essays, rituals, and refusals, Judith is redefining what skincare means for people who have always been misdiagnosed, misunderstood, and missing from the curriculum.

She doesn’t just formulate. She testifies.
She doesn’t just question. She builds.
She doesn’t just speak truth. She makes it tangible in product, in science, in skin.

I’m not chasing validation.
I’m creating the science they refused to teach.
— Judith Pluviose, Esq.

Judith lives in New York with her two sons, her husband, and a garden altar rooted in stillness, memory, and return.

Still Becoming... (sacred space)

This space holds what we’re building, not what we had to borrow. Until our full council is revealed, we offer sacred words, ancestral reminders, and declarations of return. Because even when the world couldn’t see us, we were still becoming.