Est. Apothecary · MMXXVI · Vermont

One farm.
One small lab.
Three things.

We started Vellume because we are the buyers, women and men in our forties, fifties, and beyond who had run out of patience for skincare marketed at someone twenty years younger than the face in the mirror.

The founder

I am the buyer.

I am forty-six. I had been on three retinols, two peptide serums, and a "miracle" face oil before I admitted the truth, most premium skincare is formulated in a contract factory in New Jersey, marked up four hundred percent by a brand, and shipped through a department store.

I wanted to know who rendered the fat. I wanted to know whose hands closed the jar. I wanted the lab to be small enough to call.

So we built Vellume. We work with one regenerative farm in the Mad River Valley. The lab is six people. I sign every batch. I read every email. If something isn't right, you'll get me, not a chatbot.

Founder · Vellume Mad River Valley · Vermont

The farm

Forty cows. No exceptions.

Mad River Farm sits at the end of a dirt road in central Vermont. Forty Hereford-cross cows on three hundred acres of rotational pasture. The Andersons have been there since 1998, they were grass-fed before grass-fed had a hashtag.

Tallow is rendered within hours of slaughter, in stainless steel kettles, never above 38°C. That slow render preserves the lipid profile that mirrors human sebum: palmitoleic, oleic, stearic, in proportions your skin recognizes.

We pay above market for the fat because we wanted exclusivity, not commodity. One farm. One herd. One supply chain we can trace by name.

Mad River Farm · Reg. 1998 Vermont · USDA Organic

The lab

Six people. Forty days.

Our lab in central Vermont has six people, a chemist (PhD, formerly Dermatica), a peptide specialist, three blenders, and me. Every batch of forty jars takes forty days to make: render, cool, stabilize, age, bottle, label, sign.

The copper peptide is stability-tested at 0.15 percent for the cream and 0.2 percent for the serum across a twelve-week protocol. We've thrown out three full batches in the last year because the GHK-Cu drifted past tolerance. Slow is not a marketing word for us. It is how the cream is allowed to leave the shelf.

You can write to the lab directly. We answer in days, not weeks.

Mad River Lab · est. 2025 Six hands · forty days

1 Farm

Mad River, Vermont. Forty cows. Three hundred acres of rotational pasture.

6 People in the lab

A chemist, a peptide specialist, three blenders, and the founder. Every batch signed by name.

40 Days per batch

Cold-cure, never above 38°C. The peptide needs time to bond. We give it the time.

3 Things we make

A cream, a serum, a scalp tonic. Each one was held back from launch until it actually worked.

In short

Slowly, but surely.

We do not have an investor deck.

We have a farm, a small lab, and a list of buyers who pay us to keep going slow.

If you have a question, write us. The answer is from a person.

hello@vellume.co Mad River Valley · Vermont · MMXXVI