SKIN
Skin
What am I putting on my own skin?
And the names I cannot read ── what are they in there for?
From something you buy
to something you can make
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SKIN ／ Skin
The skin is said to be the largest organ of the body.
On it, things I can understand.
Looking again at what goes on my skin.
Just that.
And then, learning that it can be made.
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01 ／ I did not know
Every day, like clockwork, I washed.
I put things on.
I thought I was caring for my skin.
And yet I did not know what I was actually putting on my face.
When I think about it, that is a lot of trust.
And it is my own face it goes on.
02 ／ I looked it up
Rows and rows of technical words. At first, none of it made sense.
Little by little, little by little.
It really did take time.
Knowing that I did not know.
That itself was the beginning.
03 ／ Not for sale
“This is what I want to try.”
I had found my way to that one thing.
── But then. It was not for sale.
Wherever I looked, the thing I wanted to use was not sold anywhere.
04 ／ So I make it, then
There was only one way left.
…So I make it, then.
It was the moment a choice other than “buy” stood in front of me, for the first time in my life.
05 ／ It became something I can make
Until then, cosmetics were “something you buy.” Lined up in a store, and you pick from what is there.
That became “something you can make.”
This difference is far bigger than I had thought.
A small way through
Making what goes on my skin, myself.
With only that, a small way through opened in a world where I had believed “buying is the only way.”
What is in the things you put on every day.
What I did first was nothing dramatic.
I read the back of what was already in the house, one after another.
Some names I could read. Some I could not.
A name you cannot read is not a bad thing.
Only ── I did not know what it was.
And I noticed I had been using it every day without knowing.
So here, I will not say what is good and what is bad.
I will leave a way of seeing, so that you can read it.
If you read it and still choose the same thing, that is fine.
01 ／ WHAT TO LOOK FOR
Not warnings ── things to look at
Of course you can buy.
You do not have to make it.
It helps then to have an eye that can choose.
This is about what you can tell, if you look here while you are shopping.
So that you know what you are choosing.
- Look at the orderThey are listed from the largest amount down.
The first three tell you most of its character
- Count the names you can readHow many do you know?
If there is one you do not, look up just that one
- See what each one is forSome do the work, some make it spread, some keep it from spoiling.
They have different jobs
- Shorter is not automatically betterA short list can still disagree with you.
A long one can have its reasons
- Fit it to the life you liveThe season, how dry the place you live is, a price you can keep paying.
This part is different for everyone
02 ／ WHAT YOU CAN MAKE
Starting from what you can do
One of them, you can make
Oil, alkali, water.
Which oil you use changes how it leaves the skin.
Steep the plant, and what is in it moves across. It takes time, but there are few steps.
Plants that have long been used in care
If one grows in your garden, you can start there.
It is food, but ways of using it on skin have been handed down too.
It connects back to the kitchen.
03 ／ A LONG TIME
Not a new idea
Loquat leaves, the water rice was rinsed in, rice bran, koji ── there are records of all of them being used in care. Things said to condition the skin have been around a very long time.
How far any of it has been confirmed is another matter.
What science has settled. What is still being studied. What has long been said. What I have felt myself.
Keeping these four apart is how TANE works.
Being able to know it at all has value.
And from there, being able to decide which one you take.
04 ／ ONE THING TODAY
Read the first three lines
on what you already use
Ingredients are listed from the largest amount down.
So the first three tell you most of its character.
If one name is unreadable, look up only that one.
Read it, and if you think it is fine as it is, then it is fine.
Changing it is not the point. Being able to read it is the point.
VOICES
Words we were given
T.S ／ CA
She took her time and looked carefully at everything, starting from my surroundings, and we worked out together how to choose care that suits me. For me it was a real discovery.
M.K ／ AUSTRALIA
The way YUKI looks at skincare is genuinely wonderful. It starts with a careful conversation, and she listens honestly to what the person is troubled by and hoping for, and stays alongside them.
Y.M ／ AUSTRALIA
Being given views from many sides, we were able to look again at our own skincare and the rhythm of our days ── we received more words like these than we could count.
These are individual experiences we were given. They are not a promise of the same result.
Food & Fermentation
The koji used on skin is the same koji from the kitchen.
All the way round, and back to food.
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Washing, keeping, the seasons.
What sits just outside the skin.
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We cannot make everything.
Things whose makers we know, with the reasons.
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