Paru is a Stanford-trained dermatologist
who teamed up with Ilyssa, an MIT
engineer to initially create better
products for their own families.

Using experience with their own kids and
in Paru’s medical practice, they realized
consistency is the key to treating eczema
and sensitive skin and that the
non-prescriptions products on the
market didn’t make sense.

They felt so compelled to create a
kid-friendly solution that they
squeezed in founding Derma
Lab into they're already packed
schedules of treating patients,
building rockets, and reading
bedtime stories. The goal was to
come up with an easy-to-follow
system that allowed other
busy moms to help their kids' skin.