When Medicine Said ‘Just Pray’ I Found Another Way

This is a story of how our founder’s two-year battle with an “incurable” condition led to creating something unique: a results-based business model with an approach to natural healing that targets root causes, prioritizes ingredient efficacy over cost, partners with users to track progress through two complete skin regeneration cycles, and stands behind it all with an unprecedented 90-day guarantee.

The Breaking Point

Ever had a medical professional tell you to just pray your problem away?

By 2012, four harrowing years of battling the aftermath of the 2008 credit crisis had taken their toll. My business was devastated, my health compromised. Chronic anxiety and sleepless nights had weakened my immune system, leaving me vulnerable to what started as a simple viral skin infection on my big toe. What followed wasn’t just a medical journey — it was a lesson in how traditional protocols can restrict even the most well-intentioned healthcare providers.

The Journey of Failed Treatments

The next two years became an escalating nightmare of failed treatments: First came six months of drug store remedies — acids that burned and blistered my skin, home freezing kits that froze my skin to -57°C (-70.6°F). Each treatment promised hope. Each one left me worse than before.

Desperate to avoid further damage, the next six months consisted of various internet folk remedies. At one stage, I actually walked around with oregano oil and a piece of garlic bandaged to my toe. The only result? Two months of smelling like a pizzeria and three extra pounds.

Then came the "real" medicine. First, liquid nitrogen cryotherapy — essentially giving myself medically-assisted frostbite twice a week by freezing the infected parts of my skin to -196°C (-320.8°F). The result wasn't just failure — my toe now looked like I had leprosy, and the infection continued to spread.

When I asked about antivirals, my doctor explained a frustrating reality: even if she thought alternatives might help — she was limited to prescribing only treatments approved by the College of Physicians and Surgeons. These institutional constraints would eventually lead me down an unexpected path to discovery.

With that door closed, I found a specialist who prescribed six months of Pulsed-Dye Laser treatment. My "last best hope" meant enduring over 60 excruciating laser blasts per session, targeting blood vessels under each infection point — just on my big toe. The pain was so intense, I can still feel it now just thinking about it. But what happened next would change everything.

The Turning Point

March 17, 2014, became the day that changed everything. Reclined in the medical chair for my twelfth bi-weekly session, watching the technician prep my leprous-looking toe with a razor blade, I saw her hesitate. Looking up with concern, she delivered the words: "Look, this isn't working," she said. "We're just making it worse... Just go home and pray this goes away on its own."

In that moment, my world collapsed. Two years of increasingly aggressive treatments had left me worse off than when I started. Thousands spent, countless hours of pain endured, and now the infection wasn’t just persisting — it had spread to my fingertips. I'd already stopped shaking hands. Avoided touching doorknobs and handrails. My world had become smaller with each passing day, as I recoiled from socializing for fear I pass this disease to anyone else. Those words should have broken me. Instead, they freed me.

Leaving her office, I took her advice and drove straight home — not (just) to pray, but to study. That moment of despair became my catalyst for change. It was time I take matters into my own hands.

The Breakthrough

My background in human biology had originally set me on a path to medical school before I chose entrepreneurship instead. Now, that scientific training would prove invaluable as I dove deep into research. What I discovered in those next weeks would transform my understanding of skin healing entirely.

My suspicions were first confirmed by a systematic review paper that analyzed the available research on wart treatment. The verdict? Traditional treatments available through my healthcare system — from over-the-counter remedies to surgery — showed failure rates as high as 85% for persistent cases like mine. The evidence was clear: these destructive treatments were operating on a fundamentally flawed premise.

They were all trying to “kill” a virus—something that wasn’t alive—and in the process, making the surrounding cells even more vulnerable to infection. Each of these treatments aimed to damage healthy skin cells enough to trigger rapid regeneration — essentially hoping that a compromised immune system would somehow respond better to additional trauma. The logic didn’t add up.

Then came the breakthrough — from an unexpected source: a specialist in the area of cancer research called anti-angiogenics. From him I discovered two critically important things: First, that warts, like tumors, create and abnormally maintain dense clusters of blood vessels surrounding the infected cells to keep them super-fed, compared to the normal tissues; and second, that nature already had the solution — specific botanical compounds that could restore normal vessel regulation. These insights pointed to a clear path forward.

My next step was to identify every nutrient and health-promoting factor that skin cells need to thrive and that infected cells needed to starve. This formed the basis of the hypothesis I would put to the test. This hypothesis is now formally known as the Verriclear Methodology: Study the aggressor (what makes it thrive), understand the victim's needs (to heal, stay strong, and protect itself), and provide what's missing:  specific botanicals in exact proportions of natural compounds that weaken the threat while strengthening the system.

Working with this framework, I developed my first formula, comprised of precise ratios of plant extracts whose components provided the seven essential nutritional factors crucial for skin cell health, creating an optimal healing environment. 110 days after applying my first formula, all traces of infection were gone — even under magnification.

The Journey Beyond Selling Skin Care

Success resolving my skin condition led to five years of intensive research focused solely on understanding skin conditions and the factors involved in their pathogenic pathways, including collaboration with Cambridge University professors on a method of mining and extracting knowledge from millions of available research papers. During those long hours at the computer, I developed a simple roll-on formula to relieve my own muscle tension and stiffness. I gave one to my friend Dr. Maira for her tight muscles, thinking nothing more of it.

Months later, as I prepared for an extended overseas trip, I received an urgent message from her twin sister, Cassia, who is also a doctor. Dr. Cassia asked me to make her a “great big bottle” of my muscle-relaxant formula before I left. The story she told not only thrilled me, it showed me Verriclear would have to create an entirely new kind of business model.

During a day out with her sister, Cassia had felt the telltale signs of an oncoming migraine — something she experienced three to four times monthly since her teen years. Without her usual medication on hand, her sister offered my muscle-relaxing formula that traveled with her in her purse. She applied it to her migraine’s usual pain points — forehead, temples, and neck — and within 15 minutes, her pre-migraine symptoms disappeared completely and her expected pain never arrived.

Imagine that! Two years later, she — a medical doctor who could prescribe anything — was still using that formula, choosing my natural solution over conventional medications. No increased usage, no side effects, just consistent relief.

That was the moment I realized that Verriclear was never meant to be in the skincare business—the very idea of being categorized alongside an industry built on false promises and toxic solutions had always repulsed me. Before that moment it had never occurred to me that, from the start, Verriclear was never meant to be in the business of selling products. Verriclear is in the business of delivering results. So we'd better be ready to put our money where our mouth is.

Method Meets Mission

The same methodology that had conquered my “incurable” skin condition was now providing relief in an entirely different therapeutic area where traditional medications fell short. What started as one person’s refusal to accept “just pray” as an answer had evolved into something remarkable: a continuing opportunity to help others achieve real, measurable results.

We’d love the opportunity to help you too. Consider this your personal invitation to experience what precise, natural solutions can do for you.

Ready to try a different approach to your persistent skin or migraine concerns? You can experience our solutions risk-free: Every Verriclear product comes with our 90-day Performance Guarantee, giving you time to see real results for yourself.

Why do we offer this? Because, when you're in the business of delivering results, you stand by your solutions. We believe the future of natural healing isn’t about hope — it’s about precision, proof, and performance.

Wishing you comfort and confidence,

  Emanuel Faria Founder & Formulator Verriclear Natural Skin Essentials Ltd.