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Created for Patients Made for All
As a doctor who has helped countless patients for more than 25 years,
Dr Georgia Lee hears the same complaint over and over.
“I have tried every skincare brand on the planet, why can’t I find one that works for me!”
Dr Georgia Lee, Co-Founder
Today, a large part of the skincare industry has become more about hype and marketing than efficacy and actual results.
Hype is not new. From the 1930s to 50s, we were told that smoking was alright. Later in the 70s, we were assured that sugar was good for us, and in the 80s, margarine was the ‘in’ thing… Luckily, these “myths” were soon debunked. Today, we face a similar crisis of faith within the crowded skincare industry. You see brands popping up overnight and disappearing just as quickly, taking their over-the-top claims with them.
As a result, Dr Lee’s patients have lamented to her that they are constantly bombarded by too much, and sometimes contradictory, information. They just don’t know who to trust for reliable skincare advice and product recommendations anymore.
Skincare is for you and me,
let’s make it more human
Why start a skincare line in an already saturated beauty industry? Life is complicated, your skincare should never be.
That’s why Dr Lee decided to develop her own line of products. Equipped with the passion for helping her patients achieve great skin, her medical expertise, years of clinical experience, and personal experience battling post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation, she believed that she could formulate an effective skincare line.
Herself a busy doctor running a successful practice, Dr Lee does not have the time for a fussy or complicated skincare routine. Believing this to be true for most people, she decided to develop a straightforward and effortless modular skincare routine that would yield maximum efficacy (yield great results) with minimum fuss (be quick and easy).
Putting the care back into skincare
In the beginning, Dr Lee created DrGL® for her patients before opening it up to her spa customers, and later making the products easily accessible to everyone on DrGL.com and standalone counters.
While the brand was created for Dr Lee’s patients front and centre, the products were always developed to be suitable for, and accessible to all human beings.
We Hold Ourselves to the Highest Standards
The DrGL® brand philosophy centres around ethics and responsibility. We hold ourselves to the highest standards always. We never make outlandish, over-the-top promises. Every claim must be substantiated and backed by research and clinical studies. We take great pride in our proprietary formulas, full accountability in every ingredient that goes into our products and are selective of the suppliers we work with. Why? Our products go onto our skin, our largest organ, so is it not imperative that we take every care to ensure that whatever we put on our skin is not only efficacious, but more importantly, safe.
Likewise, no effort has been spared to make sure all our products are free from harmful ingredients (more than 1,400 of them!) and heavy metals. We go the extra mile to get them independently tested at labs in the European Union to be absolutely safe for use. While we take great pride in being a high-performance skincare brand, we will not compromise when it comes to the safety of anyone who uses DrGL® products. This is something we stand by and take with utmost seriousness.
The DrGL® Difference
These days, it has become increasingly common to come across products packed with so many ingredients, the ingredients list ends up reading like an esoteric essay. Therefore, should any issue arise, it becomes exceedingly difficult to weed out the culprit.
Yet on the other hand, there are brands that market singular key-ingredient formulas. Here, they run the risk of compounded preservative-absorption through the layering of too many skincare steps. After all, our skin is our largest organ and is completely exposed to the external environment. We must do more to protect it.
In March 2020, the US FDA found that the active ingredients in chemical sunscreens could be found in skin within 20 minutes of application. The implications? We do not know yet. We do not know if these ingredients are actually safe to be in skin for prolonged periods of time. That’s why we would rather err on the side of caution than take unnecessary risks. More might not always mean better. Our formulations must be safe above all else. At DrGL®, formula is king. We believe that a well-formulated, well-tested product trumps an undiscerning one that has “everything but the kitchen sink” or a singular-active product where you end up having to layer far too many steps just for the similar results.
Each DrGL® product has been painstakingly formulated and tested, so you’ll receive maximum efficacy through the right combination of actives in the optimum percentages, with minimum fuss due to our multifunctional products and streamline, modular routine
Not one to chase trends, we stay focused on problem-solving for our users.
We develop safe and effective solutions tested from more than five million patient-and-client contact hours. Our complete suite of skin and scalp care treatment programmes is the result of all our touch points.
Through our carefully curated combination of ingredients based on actual skin know-how, our “see, listen, research, and observe” methodology, we have created products for healthy, beautiful skin & hair, and designed complementary professional treatments to augment your everyday skin and scalp care routines.
In an ever-changing skin care journey, let DrGL® be your one constant.
