What if we turned the story, and made each other beautiful?
Scheál is my mother's maiden name, said "she-all." Look at the letters, though, and you will see what I saw the first time: she heals. That is the quiet promise behind every jar.
I am Christina DePascale. I have been in the beauty industry since 1998, and I spent sixteen of those years alongside Laura Mercier. This is the story of how I came to make skincare by hand, and what I believe it is for.
How the jars came to be.
I did not set out to start a skincare company. It found me at the lowest point, which I think is how most true things arrive.
A life in beauty.
I have been in the beauty industry since 1998. For sixteen years I worked alongside Laura Mercier as a celebrity makeup artist, and I taught as a national educator for Decléor and B. Kamins. My clients were the kind who could have anyone, and who valued their privacy, so I will keep it. Some faces you would know; most you never will. My work appeared in ELLE, Vogue, Condé Nast Traveller, GQ, British GQ and Brides. I loved it, and I was good at it.
Then my own skin.
Adult acne arrived in my early twenties, right in the middle of my life as a celebrity makeup artist. As a vendor I got every product for free, and I tried all of them. Nothing worked. The dermatologist only wanted to hand me pills. So I went to school. I started studying chemistry and compounding and collected certifications from all over, only to realize that every school was selling its own brand too, and most of those brands sat under the same few companies at the top. I was desperate in a way I had never felt, and I noticed something as I kept looking. Mainstream marketing knew exactly how I felt, and it used that feeling. My pain, my hope, my embarrassment, all of it was being used to sell me the next thing. And the next thing never got me to healed, or to pretty, or to beautiful. I was a consumer in a world of commercial products full of ingredients I would never put on my face today, and I was further from my own skin than ever.
I begged God for help.
So I prayed. Not politely. I begged. And the recipes came. I started compounding them in my kitchen from organic botanicals and oils, and within the week my skin was clear. I still make every batch the same way, by being in tune and listening as I work, if you can understand that. I call it my juju. It is an art form more than a formula, and it is still being given to me, jar by jar.
I did not invent these. I received them.
The name.
The line was DePascale Organics until a season of deep loss, when a marriage ended and took everything I had built with it, and I lost my mother. I renamed the company Scheál, for what it was going to have to do. Through Jesus I chose to let the healing begin and the cycles of generations end.
And in that darkest moment, the product was born again at a new level. I started compounding better, with deeper and faster results, by letting things come to me instead of driving for them. I grew up as a person who was always surviving, so letting go and letting things come was a huge learning curve, and a remarkable one. Scheál became a new beginning for me, and for anyone who has ever had to start over.
What I believe it is for.
We live in a world where we want everyone to envy us and admire us, screaming at the top of our lungs to be heard. We fill faces and freeze faces. We take the smile and the personality off a woman, strip her of her identity, and leave her with more insecurity than she started with. All for what?
I believe we each have a job and a purpose, and mine is to make people beautiful. We live in a world where everybody wants to take and everything is about money. What if we turned the story and made each other beautiful instead? That is the whole idea. The jars are how I do it on the skin. The spa is how I do it in person. And what the company earns is how I do it for people I may never meet.
This is not just skincare. It is a love letter to your skin.
What a jar is for.
This line was never only for me. It was meant to do three things at once, and every order gently moves all three.
Your skin.
Organic skincare compounded by hand, made fresh for the person ordering it, with nothing in it I would not put on my own face. For women and for men. Skin does not have a gender.
A seat at the table.
As Scheál grows, it will hire women who were never given a chance: a seat at the table, hand-pouring the jars, learning the craft, and building a real career where before there was no opportunity and no hope.
A home for children.
A portion of what Scheál earns goes toward The Anointing and Holy Angels Ranch, a home and trauma-healing center for children and young adults leaving foster care. Beauty inside and out, for people who were never offered either.
Every purchase helps build it.
Every Scheál Organics purchase helps build The Storehouse and Holy Angels Ranch: 2,000 acres set apart for children the world has overlooked, where young lives are healed, loved and raised to thrive.
I wasn't spared from hardship, but I was pulled out of it by the hand of Jesus. That redemption became the blueprint for what I'm building now: a real home, a real family, and the time to heal.
Two thousand acres, drawn out.
Four corners, one heart. The church, restaurant and boutiques at the top left; the retreat hotel at the top right; the orphanage at the bottom left; youth housing at the bottom right; the farm and women's housing along the north end; and the trauma healing center in the middle, where every path leads.
For a deeper dive, read The Storehouse on The Anointing website.
"Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world."
Your skin, and someone else's new beginning.
Every jar and every facial is made by hand, for you, and quietly carries this mission with it. Thank you for reading my story. I hope you are blessed.
Meet the Alchemist
The Story of Scheal Organics
She Heals. That’s the meaning behind Scheal — and the mission behind every product.
Before Scheal Organics existed, Christina DePascale worked alongside magnate Laura Mercier, was a national makeup artist and esthetician teaching seminars for Decléor and B. Kamins, and built a name with celebrities known for flawless, natural skin. Her celebrity client list includes Dua Lipa, Kanye and Kim, and her work has been featured in ELLE, Vogue, Condé Nast Traveller, GQ, British GQ and Brides. Christina has a gift to make her clients look naturally radiant.
Adult acne changed everything. The beauty industry, once a source of empathy, began to feel like a place profiting from insecurity. The industry she had once loved began to be built more on selling than offering healing. Christina started to see how pain was being packaged and sold back to women. That realization led her to prayer.
And in that quiet, God began to speak.
The recipes for Scheal Organics came, and her cystic adult acne was healed within the week. Still through listening, through faith, and through a desire to create something transforming. Each formula is made in small batches to ensure quality and freshness. If Scheal makes your skin look beautiful then you are our marketing.
The name “Scheal” is Christina’s mother’s maiden name. It came during a season of deep personal loss — after losing a marriage that caused her to lose everything, she had worked for, she received her mother’s suicide letter. It’s hard to understand how this healing formula would be a part of a much bigger purpose. Through Jesus, she chose to allow the healing to begin and the cycles of generations to end. Who would think this would have to do with skincare?
Scheal formally known as depascal organics became a new beginning — not just for Christina, but for every woman who’s ever felt like she had to start over.
Every product is hand poured and unlike mass-produced skincare, Scheal formulas are adjusted weekly based on the shifting of climate. Your skin changes with the seasons — and your products should too.
Scheal Organics uses organic ingredients that bring transformational results to the skin, clean skincare rooted by healing botanicals. Formulated by the true Healer.
Through every purchase, you’re helping another woman heal — physically, emotionally, and spiritually. This isn’t just skincare. It’s stewardship. It’s was the beginning layer to what would be restoration for many. It’s a love letter to your skin. Thank you for reading and we hope you are blessed.
James 1:27 “Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.”