Until recently, Amanda Chantal Bacon, the Los Angeles wellness guru and founder of health-girl favorite shop Moon Juice, didn’t follow a skincare routine. “I relied on a clean diet, a bar of soap, and youth,” she admits. Then, Bacon hit her 30s, and started to see “changes.” And by that she means, “I had lost some of the plump, bounce and lift that was in my face before. My pores seemed larger and I had these little lines coming in.”

Still, she didn’t spin out in front of the mirror. “It wasn’t like manic panic, oh my God, the signs of aging!” the 35-year-old insists. Having spent considerable time in the alt-medicine trenches developing her own line of mind-body-calibrating supplements—everything from stress-fighting herbal “dusts” to plant-based protein powders—Bacon dealt with this classic coming-of-age beauty moment with some practical know-how: “I realized that my skin is just another organ—and it’s wanting some attention.”

For a crash course in skincare, Bacon consulted friends and crowd-sourced product recommendations which led her to Biologique Recherche’s cultishly popular Lotion P50, an exfoliating toner that has something of a mythical reputation for its ability to clear pores, tone skin, and impart a supernatural glow. Within a week, Bacon was hooked. Yet the list of ingredients (one version contains phenol, a potential irritant) didn’t sit well with her. So she put in a call to her Moon Juice formulator and said, “‘I have been cracking out on this acid exfoliator—we need to make a clean version.’”

Meet Moon Juice’s Beauty Shroom, Bacon’s new skincare line launching on June 19 that taps into the adaptogens—medicinal mushrooms and herbs often used in Ayurvedic practices to mitigate the effects of stress on the body. Bacon had been mixing them into her internal Moon Juice supplements for years, but she had yet to find these super-herbs in a topical skincare range.

The line’s hero product—made to rival P50—is the Exfoliating Acid Potion (available by pre-order in June and for release in August), which delivers a hefty 25 percent concentration of five acids (including glycolic, lactic, and salicylic) buffered with vitamin B3, reishi, and tocotrienols to calm inflammation and boost hydration. “I have skin that verges on sensitive, and I use it nightly,” Bacon says of the resurfacing elixir that “doesn’t make you super photo-sensitive.” Her ritual is to dispense a quarter-size amount in her palms and then “press it onto my skin with my fingers—I can’t be bothered with a cotton ball—and then I wipe the excess on my neck.”