Mint to Be Clear Duo
$105.00
Phyto Scalp Therapy
100ml / 3.4 fl oz
Why your scalp treatments stop working — and what your scalp actually needs
I have heard it more times than I can count from clients who are managing psoriasis or chronic scalp inflammation.
"I've tried everything. It works for a while, then it doesn't. I'm back to scratching and scraping and feeling like nothing holds."
And every time, I think the same thing: we are treating the symptom. We are not treating the scalp.
The scale that builds on a psoriatic scalp is not simply dry skin. It is adherent, structured, and bound — and no amount of medicated shampoo applied on top of it can penetrate what has already formed. The scale has to be lifted first. Gently, deliberately, before the wash. Not scratched off. Not forced. Dissolved.
That is what Phyto Scalp Therapy is designed to do.
What Phyto Scalp Therapy does
Phyto Scalp Therapy is a pre-shampoo oil treatment applied directly to the dry scalp before washing. It dissolves the structural bonds that hold psoriatic and seborrheic scale to the scalp surface so that it lifts cleanly with shampooing — without scratching, without trauma to the scalp skin, without the inflammation that mechanical removal causes.
With consistent use, the scalp spends less time under accumulated scale, which means less occlusion, less secondary inflammation, and a better environment for whatever treatment — prescription or otherwise — comes after the wash.
It does not replace your prescription. It makes everything that follows work better.
The Korean priori science behind the formula
Salicylic acid is one of the most well-studied keratolytic actives in dermatology — and in an oil-soluble delivery system, it becomes something categorically different from what you find in a medicated shampoo.
In a water-based shampoo, salicylic acid contacts the scalp for 60 seconds before rinsing. In an oil base, it sits in prolonged contact with the scale for 30 minutes — long enough to penetrate the desmosomal bonds that hold corneocytes together in the thickened, adherent plaques of psoriatic scale. It works through the same mechanism as prescription keratolytics, at a concentration that is effective without being aggressive.
The oil base itself is squalane — the closest thing in cosmetic formulation to the skin's own sebum. It does not sit on top of the scalp. It communicates with it. It softens the scale from beneath while the salicylic acid works from within.
Gentle but giant: Black Seed Oil (Nigella sativa) and thymoquinone
The hero of this formula is not the salicylic acid. It is black seed oil.
Nigella sativa — used for centuries in traditional medicine across the Middle East and Asia — contains thymoquinone, a bioactive compound with published evidence for psoriasis specifically. Thymoquinone inhibits NF-kB, the same inflammatory transcription factor that drives the keratinocyte hyperproliferation underlying psoriatic plaques. It is anti-inflammatory, antifungal, and antimicrobial — addressing the Malassezia component that drives seborrheic overlap simultaneously.
At 8% concentration in this formula, black seed oil is not a trace ingredient. It is a therapeutic dose. Paired with Rosemary CO2 extract — a supercritical extraction that concentrates rosemary's active compounds without the irritation risk of its essential oil — the formula supports scalp circulation and follicle integrity alongside the keratolytic work.
This is a formula that understands the scalp deeply enough to work with it rather than against it.
How to use Phyto Scalp Therapy
Apply directly to dry scalp using the dropper. Section your hair and work the oil in at the roots, focusing on areas of active scale. Leave on for 30 minutes — do not rinse early.
Shampoo as normal immediately after, ideally with a ketoconazole shampoo (Nizoral 1%) on treatment days. The oil emulsifies with the shampoo and lifts cleanly — no residue remains.
Use before every medicated shampoo wash. Shake well before every use.
Do not apply to broken or actively bleeding scalp skin. For external use only.
— Grace, Botanical Atelier
Phyto Scalp Therapy
100ml / 3.4 fl oz
Why your scalp treatments stop working — and what your scalp actually needs
I have heard it more times than I can count from clients who are managing psoriasis or chronic scalp inflammation.
"I've tried everything. It works for a while, then it doesn't. I'm back to scratching and scraping and feeling like nothing holds."
And every time, I think the same thing: we are treating the symptom. We are not treating the scalp.
The scale that builds on a psoriatic scalp is not simply dry skin. It is adherent, structured, and bound — and no amount of medicated shampoo applied on top of it can penetrate what has already formed. The scale has to be lifted first. Gently, deliberately, before the wash. Not scratched off. Not forced. Dissolved.
That is what Phyto Scalp Therapy is designed to do.
What Phyto Scalp Therapy does
Phyto Scalp Therapy is a pre-shampoo oil treatment applied directly to the dry scalp before washing. It dissolves the structural bonds that hold psoriatic and seborrheic scale to the scalp surface so that it lifts cleanly with shampooing — without scratching, without trauma to the scalp skin, without the inflammation that mechanical removal causes.
With consistent use, the scalp spends less time under accumulated scale, which means less occlusion, less secondary inflammation, and a better environment for whatever treatment — prescription or otherwise — comes after the wash.
It does not replace your prescription. It makes everything that follows work better.
The Korean priori science behind the formula
Salicylic acid is one of the most well-studied keratolytic actives in dermatology — and in an oil-soluble delivery system, it becomes something categorically different from what you find in a medicated shampoo.
In a water-based shampoo, salicylic acid contacts the scalp for 60 seconds before rinsing. In an oil base, it sits in prolonged contact with the scale for 30 minutes — long enough to penetrate the desmosomal bonds that hold corneocytes together in the thickened, adherent plaques of psoriatic scale. It works through the same mechanism as prescription keratolytics, at a concentration that is effective without being aggressive.
The oil base itself is squalane — the closest thing in cosmetic formulation to the skin's own sebum. It does not sit on top of the scalp. It communicates with it. It softens the scale from beneath while the salicylic acid works from within.
Gentle but giant: Black Seed Oil (Nigella sativa) and thymoquinone
The hero of this formula is not the salicylic acid. It is black seed oil.
Nigella sativa — used for centuries in traditional medicine across the Middle East and Asia — contains thymoquinone, a bioactive compound with published evidence for psoriasis specifically. Thymoquinone inhibits NF-kB, the same inflammatory transcription factor that drives the keratinocyte hyperproliferation underlying psoriatic plaques. It is anti-inflammatory, antifungal, and antimicrobial — addressing the Malassezia component that drives seborrheic overlap simultaneously.
At 8% concentration in this formula, black seed oil is not a trace ingredient. It is a therapeutic dose. Paired with Rosemary CO2 extract — a supercritical extraction that concentrates rosemary's active compounds without the irritation risk of its essential oil — the formula supports scalp circulation and follicle integrity alongside the keratolytic work.
This is a formula that understands the scalp deeply enough to work with it rather than against it.
How to use Phyto Scalp Therapy
Apply directly to dry scalp using the dropper. Section your hair and work the oil in at the roots, focusing on areas of active scale. Leave on for 30 minutes — do not rinse early.
Shampoo as normal immediately after, ideally with a ketoconazole shampoo (Nizoral 1%) on treatment days. The oil emulsifies with the shampoo and lifts cleanly — no residue remains.
Use before every medicated shampoo wash. Shake well before every use.
Do not apply to broken or actively bleeding scalp skin. For external use only.
— Grace, Botanical Atelier