Skin Healing Deep Dive

Ayanna Zahra Start Date: Jul 5, 2024 - End Date: Jan 4, 2025
  • Cultural Exchange
  • Educational/Research Trip
  • Professional Development
  • Namibia
  • Myanmar (Burma)
  • Bali, Indonesia
  • India
  • Mexico
  • Peru

My Travel Story

by: Ayanna Zahra Start Date: Jul 5, 2024 - End Date: Jan 4, 2025
  • Cultural Exchange
  • Educational/Research Trip
  • Professional Development
I have dedicated my career as a Holistic Skin Therapist to understanding how our skin is different from one another. As the creator of the first all-natural Skin Care Line centered on skin of color, I have shifted the consumer's expectations of a skin care product from "cosmetic quick fix no matter the cost or damage" to "my skin is precious and my decisions must be knowledge based and the products must support skin health"
The products I have created are supporting a diverse range of skin. 65% are for people of color who have felt ignored by the skin care industry.
Deeper research is required for me to bring under sourced natural minerals into my formulas to combat major skin diseases affecting a niche group of ethnicities disconnected from their ancestral origins.
Burma and Namibia have sun protection knowledge that I have already begun researching on my own.
India's Ayurvedic powers have the ability to heal ailments that have been caused by the western, European centered diet and topical products.
Mexico and indigenous culture has seemingly secret clays that will provide the key to skin protection as we experience climate change and global warming.
Africam cultures diversify the use of skins, trees, and leaves in order to maintain a youth and nourishment that will fight premature aging and hyperpigmentation.
This deep dive into herbal skin science is intentional. I have made the connection between genetics, geographic location, lifestyle, and diseases thay affect our skin and basing custom as well as readily available formulated products on this niche understanding.
This Skin Science Research is the start to a full category of Science Studies. Professionals that desire to support skin non-cosmetically, should have this option.
The consumer who is on their wellness journey should have the knowledge and resources to include skin health while continuing to live a better life.
I believe this would be my thesis. What if an honorary Doctorate and unique recognition came from this and developed a full Skin Science Program at Harvard along the way to improving this skin and beauty industry, the world, and its inhabitants?
  • Namibia
  • Myanmar (Burma)
  • Bali, Indonesia
  • India
  • Mexico
  • Peru

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