All the Good Stuff in One: TBH Skincare’s Calming New Serum Can Replace Multiple Products in Your Skincare Routine

In 2020, Sydney-based entrepreneur Rachael Tyers and her mum Bridget Mitchell launched TBH Skincare , a new brand using cutting-edge biomedical technology to treat acne topically. Its star product was the Acne Hack Cream , followed by two cleansers, a moisturiser, sunscreen and pimple patches – all designed to treat breakouts or support the actives in the cream. But Tyers saw a gap in their offering.

“We felt like we were missing that hydration, nourishing, support part of [skincare routines]. I think a lot of people who are breakout-prone shy away from hydrating their skin; they feel like using heavily hydrating products is going to clog their pores and make the breakouts worse,” she says.

But active ingredients in many acne treatments can damage the skin’s natural barrier: the outermost layer that’s meant to keep external irritants and pathogens out. Having a compromised barrier prevents it from doing its job, and it needs hydration to repair.

So TBH teamed up with Hannah English, a pharmaceutical scientist and content creator who shares tips, knowledge and product recommendations on Instagram , to develop a new serum designed to support and calm the skin barrier. But the end result does so much more.

It’s called Rebound , and it aims to help your skin bounce back after damage, calm it down, provide hydration and target inflammation.

“I was looking for this type of serum [for myself] – a hydrating serum that also does something a bit more. I’m sick of layering everything but I have ingredient FOMO and want to get everything I need without using three serums,” English says. “My experience with my own breakouts was that using a hydrating serum was a game changer, so I really wanted to help people to wrap their heads around that.”

She dug deep into existing skincare research to choose ingredients, figure out the concentrations to include – “everything has a window where it’s most beneficial, and if you go over that it’s diminishing returns at best and risking issues at worst,” she explains – and formulate it with the partner chemist. The TBH team provided info on its customer base, what they needed, and feedback on the texture and how it fits in with the existing TBH range.

Rebound’s key ingredients include vitamins B3 (niacinamide) and B5 (panthenol), which help with hydration, pore-refining and strengthening the skin barrier; ceramides and cholesterol, both naturally present in the skin’s barrier to keep out irritants; oats, centella and green tea to soothe and nurture; glycerin, electrolytes and hyaluronic acid for added hydration; and copper peptides which can calm and strengthen skin, while also helping with its texture and appearance.

“Someone asked what I would substitute this for when incorporating it into my routine and I said that it would replace your hydrating serum, calming serum, vitamin C serum and also a strengthening serum,” English says.

You can incorporate it into both your morning (after cleansing, before sunscreen) and evening (after cleansing, before moisturiser) skincare routines. She suggests using it especially alongside strong actives like vitamin A – retinoids like retinol and retinaldehyde – either after the retinoid if your skin feels good (to pre-empt any stress) or before retinoid to cushion it.

“We just wanted to help people cut down on the number of steps and have it feel nice and light so it’s not stressing anyone out that it might be clogging their pores – it’s definitely not,” she says. “It just helps your skin feel more comfortable, whether it’s going through something or you just want to give it some support, because all skin needs support and hydration.”

Rebound costs $68 for 30 millilitres and is available online.

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