Cosmo: What prompted you to launch your own skincare brand?
Dr Barbara Sturm: “Combating inflammation has been a central target of my entire medical career. I studied sports medicine and worked in the field of anti-inflammatory molecular orthopedics before shifting to anti-inflammatory aesthetics. I began injecting hyaluronic acid and Botox in the early 2000s, and translated that science from orthopedics to skin in order to create the first blood plasma facial over 18 years ago, in 2002.
Soon after, I invented
