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Personalized Skincare for Men

Your Skin Isn't
Difficult.
Your Products Were
Generic.

PROVEN analyzes 47 factors about your skin, your environment, and your life — then builds a routine that exists for no one else.

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Every skin is different. Not in the vague way brands say it — in the measurable, provable way.

Why It Hasn’t Worked

We Know Why It
Hasn’t Worked

“I’ve tried good products individually but my skin still isn’t great.”

PROVEN 3-step system on bathroom counter
System-calibrated formulation

One System. Nothing in Conflict.

When you layer a cleanser from one brand, a moisturizer from another, and whatever SPF was on sale — ingredients cancel each other out. Or react. PROVEN formulates your cleanser, moisturizer, and night cream together. One system. Everything amplified, nothing in conflict.

“Same routine, different results every season.”

Climate variation affecting skin
85% of U.S. homes have hard water

Your Zip Code Isn’t Just for Shipping.

It tells us your UV exposure, water hardness, humidity, and pollution levels. 85% of U.S. households have hard water — that’s millions of men blaming their skin for what their pipes are doing. Your formula accounts for where you actually live, and it updates when your environment changes.

“I bought products for my skin type and they still didn’t work.”

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47 factors analyzed per profile

47 Factors. Not 4 Skin Types.

“Oily.” “Dry.” “Combination.” These are categories, not diagnoses. Your skin has 47 measurable factors — genetics, microbiome composition, sebum production patterns, sensitivity thresholds, shaving damage history. A label doesn’t capture you. 47 factors do.

“I was ‘combination’ my whole life. Turns out my skin needed completely different things on each zone — and different things in summer vs. winter. PROVEN was the first brand that treated it like a real problem instead of a category.”

Combination skin · Chicago, IL · 6 months on PROVEN

“I don’t want to become a skincare person.”

Person taking PROVEN quiz on phone
40% receive seasonal adaptation · 28M+ data points

The Quiz Absorbs the Complexity.

The quiz takes under 3 minutes. You answer it once. The system handles the rest — including adapting your formula when your life changes. No 10-step routines. No ingredient research. The quiz absorbs the complexity. You get the results.

The Difference

Generic Products Are Made
for an Average Face.

You don’t have one. Three tiers of what you’ve been using — and what changes.

Drugstore
What You Had

One cleanser, maybe a moisturizer if someone reminded you. Formulated for “men” — meaning blue packaging and menthol.

What Changes

A cleanser calibrated to your oil production, your sensitivity, your water. A moisturizer with SPF matched to your UV exposure. A night cream targeting your specific concerns.

DTC Brands
What They Do

Quiz sorts you into one of 8–12 pre-made products. Same formula as thousands of other people. Subscription locks you in.

What PROVEN Does

Quiz answers directly determine ingredient selection and concentration. 100,000+ unique formulations produced. Made fresh when you order — not pulled from a warehouse shelf.

DIY Route
What It Takes

Hours of research, ingredient compatibility knowledge, trial-and-error across dozens of products, $500+ and two years of guessing.

What PROVEN Replaces

The Skin Genome Project did the research. The AI did the matching. You did a 3-minute quiz. Same outcome — less time, less waste, less irritated skin.

The Origin

We Didn’t Start with Skincare.
We Started with a Problem.

PROVEN’s founder — a Stanford-trained computational physicist with 2 U.S. patents — saw that skincare was a system-level failure. Not that products were bad. That the wrong products reached the wrong people.

She built the Skin Genome Project to fix the matching problem at scale: 28 million data points, 20,000+ peer-reviewed studies, fraud-detected reviews, and the AI to connect them.

MIT recognized the technology before any significant revenue existed. Y Combinator funded the company. The Sharks on Shark Tank passed. Then PROVEN scaled to $150M+ without them.

96% stay on subscription
MIT Wall Street Journal Forbes Today Show Y Combinator
Your Day

What Your Morning Looks
Like in 30 Days

Man applying cleanser in morning routine
Your Skin Profile
Climate: Arid UV: High Water: 162 ppm Oiliness + Texture

→ Your Personalized System

7 AM · Morning

The Routine That Handles Itself

Cleanser. Moisturizer with SPF. Done. Two products, under a minute. The system chose the ingredients. You chose to get out of bed. That’s the entire division of labor.

Night cream on bedside table
Sensitivity
Calibrated to threshold
10 PM · Night

The Repair You Sleep Through

Night cream. One product. Targets the concerns you shared in the quiz — the ones you haven’t told anyone else. While you sleep, your formula works on what matters to your skin. Not a generic brightening blend. Not a one-size retinol dose. Yours.

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Results
93% see improvement
Day 30 · Results

The Conversation You Didn’t Expect

Someone mentions your skin looks better. You don’t have a 10-step routine to explain. You don’t have an influencer to credit. You have a system. It worked. You move on with your life.

Real Results

Evidence, Not Advertising.

Before: oily skin with acne scarring After: reduced scarring
Before After

Oily skin + acne scarring

Age 28 · Denver, CO · 8 weeks

Before: razor bumps and sensitivity After: reduced razor bumps
Before After

Razor bumps + sensitivity

Age 34 · Atlanta, GA · 6 weeks

Before: dryness and rough texture After: smoother texture
Before After

Dryness + uneven texture

Age 41 · Minneapolis, MN · 12 weeks

The Evidence

The Numbers Behind
Your Formula

Not claims. Not marketing. Measurable outcomes from real users.

28M+

Data points in the Skin Genome Project

47

Individual skin factors analyzed per profile

100K+

Unique formulations produced — not variations

2

U.S. patents for algorithmic personalization

Formulated fresh. Small-batch. Dermatologist-reviewed Reformulation guarantee Free shipping. Cancel anytime.

“I’d given up on skincare. Bar soap and accepting my fate. Took the quiz because my partner insisted. A month later my barber asked what I changed. One brand. That’s it.”

Oily skin · Phoenix, AZ · 4 months on PROVEN

“Razor bumps were just part of my life. Every product either burned or did nothing. PROVEN’s formula actually accounted for how often I shave and the sensitivity around my jawline. First time anything felt like it was designed for the problem.”

Sensitive skin · Atlanta, GA · 3 months on PROVEN
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Questions

Before You Try Again

Most brands use a quiz to sort you into one of a handful of pre-made products — a sorting mechanism, not a formulation engine. PROVEN’s quiz directly determines which of 20,000+ ingredients are selected and at what concentrations, producing a unique product for each individual. We’ve produced over 100,000 unique formulations. Your products are also formulated together as a system, so ingredients amplify rather than conflict.

Those brands use quizzes as sorting mechanisms for a handful of pre-made products. PROVEN’s quiz is a formulation input — your answers directly determine ingredient selection and concentration. We also formulate your cleanser, moisturizer, and night cream together so they work as a system. And your formula adapts as your life changes — seasons, geography, stress — which static products can’t do.

The quiz captures 47 factors including environmental data you can’t self-assess: your zip code maps to UV index, water hardness, humidity, and pollution. Your answers are cross-referenced against the Skin Genome Project — 28 million+ data points from 20,000+ peer-reviewed studies. The quiz captures what you know and adds what you can’t know.

Sensitivity is one of 47 factors the system accounts for. Ingredient concentrations are constrained to your threshold. If irritation occurs despite this, PROVEN will reformulate your products at no additional cost within 30 days — adjusting based on how your skin responded. Reformulation is the system learning, not a failure.

Weeks 1–2: skin calibrates to your formula. Weeks 3–4: active breakouts slow, barrier strengthens. Weeks 5–8: results compound — texture evens, tone improves. Week 8+: maintenance. If no visible improvement by week 4–6, reformulation is the next step — not abandonment. 93% of users report visible improvement within 30 days.

Yes. Pause, skip, or cancel anytime. Choose delivery every 4, 6, 8, or 12 weeks. The subscription exists because your formula adapts — seasons change, your life changes, your skin changes. It’s the delivery mechanism for a system that evolves, not a billing trap. 80% of users choose to subscribe because the system works.

No. Men’s skin is structurally different — thicker dermis, higher sebum production, and shaving as a chronic variable affecting barrier integrity. PROVEN’s quiz captures male-specific factors and the formulation engine adjusts accordingly. Same technology, different outputs based on your biology.

Most customers begin with our personalized 3-step system for $99. Subscribers save compared to one-time purchases, and shipping is always free. Most people spend $500+ and two years cycling through generic products that don’t work. PROVEN predicts your results before you buy. Take the quiz to see your personalized system.

Your Skin Isn't the Problem.
Let's Prove It.

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