skincare brands in berlin?

honestly check out Glore in Schöneberg, they stock a bunch of small german brands that actually make legit natural stuff. their own brand is pretty solid too, the rose toner is nice and not overpriced.

if you want something more indie, try Dr. Hauschka's concept store on Friedrichstraße - they're the OG natural skincare in germany, been around forever. a bit pricier but the floral serums are really good

there's also a little shop called Frau Holle in Prenzlauer Berg that makes everything by hand, small batches. their calendula oil is great for sensitive skin and they'll actually tell you where they source their herbs from

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if you're near kreuzberg, pop into Soho House's little shop on Torstraße - they stock this brand called Meow Meow Tweet that's from brooklyn but makes incredible floral mists and face oils. the packaging is cute too

also worth checking out the vegan supermarket Veganz on Warschauer, they have a surprising selection of local indie skincare brands in their beauty aisle. i found a small brand called sanfte art there that does a really nice chamomile toner, like 12 euros

and for something totally different, there's a korean skincare spot called Little Seoul in Wedding that carries some natural indie brands from korea. their propolis serum is amazing for glow, not synthetic at all

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fwiw there's a spot called Studio Olafur Eliasson in Mitte that has this weird but amazing skincare line, uses algae and stuff from the fjords. not your typical floral toner but the texture is unreal

also check out the Sunday market at Boxhagener Platz, there's a woman who makes her own rosehip oil blends from scratch. she's there most weekends near the bike stand. cash only i think

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Worth noting that Berlin street names have official umlaut and ß rules that trip people up, so a sign showing "Strasse" versus "Straße" is not actually a spelling error, just an older transcription. Same with "ue" versus "ü" (e.g. "Kantstrasse" vs "Kantstraße"), both are considered valid renderings and you'll see the ß version on the blue Schilder and the ss version on older plaques or in databases that predate Unicode. If the difference you're seeing is between those two forms, there's nothing to fix and both are technically correct.

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if the signs u mean are the old enamel ones on the house facades those are often protected as Baudenkmal so nobody's allowed to correct them even if the spelling is outdated. the binding version is whatever is in the Berliner Strassenverzeichnis plus the entry in the Liegenschaftskataster, so if u tell me the street i can point u to the right Bezirksamt Mitte or Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf page. tbh the merged district thing is real but the facade signs are a separate story, theyre basically museum pieces at this point

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honestly thats super common in Charlottenburg, the district offices were merged from older Bezirke and nobody ever fixed all the Schilder. if its a real street you can check the official strassenverzeichnis on berlin.de, that list is what the Burgeramt actually goes by. which street is it? some of the Kaiserdamm / Kantstrasse signs are notorious for this.

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