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Custom 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.

Take the Quiz → Under 2 minutes. Free. No commitment.

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

We Know Why It Hasn't Worked

"I've tried good products individually but my skin still isn't great."

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.

System-calibrated formulation
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"Same routine, different results every season."

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.

85% of U.S. homes have hard water
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"I bought products for my skin type and they still didn't work."

"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.

47 factors analyzed per profile
"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
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"I don't want to become a skincare person."

The quiz takes under 2 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.

40% receive seasonal adaptation · 28M+ data points
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Take the quiz — under 2 minutes ›

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 2-minute quiz. Same outcome — less time, less waste, less irritated skin.

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.

MIT Wall Street Journal Forbes Today Show Y Combinator

What Your Morning Looks Like in 30 Days

7am
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.

Your cleanser accounts for your water hardness, sebum production, and current season

Your Skin Profile

Climate Arid
UV Index High
Water Hardness 162 ppm
Skin Concern Oiliness + Texture
→ Your Personalized System
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10pm
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.

Active concentrations calibrated to your sensitivity threshold
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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.

93% report visible improvement within 30 days
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Evidence, Not Advertising

Real skin. Consistent lighting. Specific context. These are PROVEN users — not models, not retouched.

Before photo of a person's cheek with oily skin and acne scarring.
After photo showing reduced scarring after using Proven's personalized skincare.

Oily skin + acne scarring

Age 28 · Denver, CO · 8 weeks on personalized 3-step system

Before photo of a man's jawline with razor bumps and skin sensitivity.
After photo showing fewer razor bumps and reduced skin sensitivity after using Proven.

Razor bumps + sensitivity

Age 34 · Atlanta, GA · 6 weeks on personalized 3-step system

Before photo of a man's cheek showing dryness and rough texture.
After photo showing less dryness and smoother texture after following the Proven routine.

Dryness + uneven texture

Age 41 · Minneapolis, MN · 12 weeks on personalized 3-step system

The Numbers Behind Your Formula

80%

of PROVEN users choose to subscribe. Not because we made it the default — because the system worked and they came back. For someone who's been burned before, that's the only number that matters.

28M+

Data points in the Skin Genome Project — the world's largest skincare database

47

Individual skin factors analyzed per profile — genetics, environment, lifestyle, and more

100K+

Unique formulations produced. Not variations. Not categories. Individually engineered products.

2

U.S. patents — the first ever granted for algorithmic personalization in skincare

Formulated fresh. Small-batch. Made when you order.
Dermatologist-reviewed. Clean ingredients.
Reformulation guarantee — if your needs change, your formula changes. Free.
Free shipping. Pause, skip, or 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
MIT AI Technology of the Year 2 U.S. Patents Stanford Dermatology Shark Tank Featured Y Combinator W18

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.

Under two minutes. 47 factors. A formula built around you.

Take the Quiz → Free. No commitment required.