The Journal

Relaunched April 2026. Foundational essays on formulation discipline, ingredient biology, and the manufacturing choices behind PrimalBasics. We publish when we have something worth saying, not on a schedule.

Journal

PrimalBasics Journal title card: 'A deodorant, not an antiperspirant' — on choosing an aluminum-free magnesium deodorant

A deodorant, not an antiperspirant — and why th...

A deodorant handles odor; an antiperspirant blocks sweat with aluminum — and almost nobody reads the one label word that says which they're buying. Here's why PrimalBasics makes an aluminum-free...

A deodorant, not an antiperspirant — and why th...

A deodorant handles odor; an antiperspirant blocks sweat with aluminum — and almost nobody reads the one label word that says which they're buying. Here's why PrimalBasics makes an aluminum-free...

Fourteen things you’ll never find in a PrimalBasics product

Fourteen things you’ll never find in a PrimalBa...

The 0% Standard is fourteen exclusions, no exceptions — the ingredients we leave out of every product, and why each one made the list.

Fourteen things you’ll never find in a PrimalBa...

The 0% Standard is fourteen exclusions, no exceptions — the ingredients we leave out of every product, and why each one made the list.

Why I supplement glycine, not melatonin — and what it taught me about toothpaste

Why I supplement glycine, not melatonin — and w...

For years the wellness internet kept handing me the same prescription: take melatonin. I never did. I take glycine, n-acetylcysteine, and magnesium most evenings, and the moment the sun goes...

Why I supplement glycine, not melatonin — and w...

For years the wellness internet kept handing me the same prescription: take melatonin. I never did. I take glycine, n-acetylcysteine, and magnesium most evenings, and the moment the sun goes...

How a tooth powder ended up being made by a research institute at Prince of Songkla University

How a tooth powder ended up being made by a res...

If you picked up our PrimalDent tooth powder prior to mid 2025, it was made on a kitchen counter in a condo in central Bangkok, by me, in batches of...

How a tooth powder ended up being made by a res...

If you picked up our PrimalDent tooth powder prior to mid 2025, it was made on a kitchen counter in a condo in central Bangkok, by me, in batches of...

The tooth powder was the beginning — what we learned from four ingredients

The tooth powder was the beginning — what we le...

If you are a new customer, you probably came to us through the tooth powder. That is not an accident — it is the product of ours that has the...

The tooth powder was the beginning — what we le...

If you are a new customer, you probably came to us through the tooth powder. That is not an accident — it is the product of ours that has the...

Reading the Crème de La Mer ingredient list, in public

Reading the Crème de La Mer ingredient list, in...

I did not grow up with Crème de La Mer on my radar. I knew it existed — every airport duty-free magazine features it, every department-store beauty counter in Bangkok...

Reading the Crème de La Mer ingredient list, in...

I did not grow up with Crème de La Mer on my radar. I knew it existed — every airport duty-free magazine features it, every department-store beauty counter in Bangkok...