The Beauty & Wellness Routine Clean Beauty Pioneer Tata Harper Is Using Right Now

As a pioneer in the clean beauty space, Tata Harper has been creating luxury skin care with the highest-quality all-natural ingredients since 2007. Since Tata Harper Skincare took off in Vermont, she's gradually grown the line to include plenty more products and better formulas, focusing on sustainability, efficacy, and a premium sensorial experience.

Harper's brand is famous in the beauty space for providing products that are worth every penny—the natural active ingredients are potent but never overpowering. The raw extracts are sourced from all around the world, with a particular emphasis on regenerative farming so you can do good for your skin and the planet.

Last year, Harper launched a new collection called Superkind—formulated to deliver real results for sensitive, reactive skin types. The Superkind collection is formulated to be free from known allergens like nuts, wheat, gluten, fragrance, essential oils, sulfates, harsh exfoliants, and even BHAs—as the latter can be particularly irritating for sensitive skin. However, unlike plenty of sensitive-skin lines out there, Harper included specially formulated actives that help brighten, smooth, and encourage healthy skin aging—not just prevent irritation.

"I want to give a shoutout to Elixir Vitae, which is a serum that we formulated for mature skin. I've been using it every single day, twice a day, for years. Like, maybe a decade. It's definitely my desert island product.

"It's our most powerful serum. It has a total of 72 actives, so it creates a filling effect in the skin. It has natural redensifiers but also contains a lot of new neurotransmitter peptides, targeting technology that's all about relaxing wrinkles, and it has a lot of cellular energizing technology.

"I closely follow the studies around longevity. I was definitely a bit skeptical about intermittent fasting; I thought that because I'm snacking constantly that it was something I'd never be able to incorporate into my life. But I've been surprised by how much I actually like it.

"I typically do 10:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. So I do that three or four days a week, more or less, and I've been doing it for two years. I like it because I know I'm doing something good for my body—it's not necessarily something you do to lose weight. It's not a diet strategy.

"A line that people don't know about is this sunscreen brand called Avasol. I discovered it in Hawaii through friends—they were giving us surf lessons, and they always brought the Avasol with them.

"It's a family affair. My kids are obsessed with it, and it's the only sunscreen we use.

"I love my infrared sauna. It's definitely a bit of a splurge. I got my infrared sauna on Amazon as a Christmas gift to myself four years ago and I've been using it as much as I can. I use it multiple times a week, even if I just go in for 20 minutes.

"I've been exfoliating daily for decades. Even before I had my line, I used to exfoliate every day with very fine sugar and honey. If you're someone who is super minimal and just likes to do one thing, then exfoliate.

"It might be a little unexpected because people have been trained that exfoliation is something that happens once a week or once a month, but the reality is that it depends on what you're exfoliating with.

"My grandmother and my mother taught me my skin care routine, really more than anything to view that routine not as a chore but as a moment that marks the most relaxing part of your day. That attitude is everything—that's why it's so motivating, that's why I look forward to it, and that's why I've stuck with it for so long.

"It's really like a self-soothing ritual in a way. It's generations of women in my family who have done it this way—that's one part of my life that is very traditional. I do it with my kids, too. I try to help them all embrace self-soothing as a way to reconnect with yourself. For me, skin care is always, as you can tell from my line, a very sensorial experience. It's all about the smell, how it feels on the skin, and I love where it takes you.