Free shipping on orders over $75 Blended in Brisbane, in small runs 60 days to return it, opened or not Every jar refills for $11

N 03 · The recovery cream

Clay, oil,
and not much else.

Understory is eleven ingredients. Kaolin clay from Western Australia, squalane pressed from olives, and three peptides that do the actual work. You can read the whole list in about twenty seconds, which is the point.

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4.9 from 612 reviews Free shipping over $75 Made in Brisbane
Raw kaolin clay, pale mineral shards and beads of oil resting on a stone slab The same raw materials blended into a pool of pale cream on the same slab Understory peptide recovery cream in a frosted glass jar with a deep green lid Raw materials
Free shipping over $75Flat $9.95 anywhere in Australia under that.
60 days to change your mindOpened, half used, we still take it back.
Made in AustraliaBlended and filled in Brisbane, in small runs.
Every jar refillsSend the glass back, or buy a pouch for $11.

The short list

The four people
buy first.

Ten products in the range. These four are what most first orders look like.

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Raw kaolin clay blocks, pale mineral shards and amber oil droplets weighed out on a stone slab

Kaolin from a pit in Western Australia, olive squalane and mineral salts, weighed out before anything is blended.

What is in it

Short lists, and a reason for every line.

Most creams run to forty ingredients and explain none of them. Ours run to eleven, and each one has a job we can describe in a sentence. Here are the four doing the heavy lifting.

Kaolin clayFine white clay that holds oil without stripping it. It is where our name comes from. 6%
SqualanePressed from olives. Your skin already makes something almost identical, so it sinks in. 12%
Matrixyl 3000Two peptides that signal skin to build more of its own collagen. Good evidence, not a miracle. 3%
NiacinamideEvens tone and settles redness. The least dramatic thing in the jar, and the one people mention most. 4%

And what is not in there

  • No fragrance
  • No essential oils
  • No drying alcohol
  • No added colour
  • No silicone film
  • Never tested on animals

Read all eleven ingredients on the cream

4.9Average rating across the range
5,058Reviews from Australian customers
60 daysTo send it back, opened or not
1 dayFrom your order to the post office

In order

Two routines, six products,
no guessing.

Pick morning or night. Three steps each, in the order they go on, with the reason for each one written next to it.

What people say

Five thousand reviews,
and the pattern is boring.

People say it sinks in, that it smells of nothing, and that it took about six weeks. We would rather that than a miracle.

4.95,058 reviews
from real orders

Reviews shown here are illustrative content written for this demonstration store.

The list

Ten emails a year. Possibly fewer.

New batches, refill reminders, and the occasional note about why an ingredient is in there. No countdown timers.

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