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Microbiome Skincare Products: What To Look Out For

  Microbiome skincare is not something that involves simply including a single probiotic-based ingredient in a product. Caring for the microbiome is an entire philosophy in product design that needs…

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5 Things Probiotics Do For Your Skin

  Probiotics are vital They protect you from pathogens (like armour for your face) They improve barrier function They maintain calm and reduce sensitivity They manufacture moisturising factors They maintain…

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What Is The Perfect Skin Microbiome?

  This is a really tough question. The skin is now viewed as an ecosystem … so how would you answer the question: What is the perfect ecosystem? Is it…

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Probiotics Balance pH

Acid mantle integrity is key to effective barrier function It is not intuitive to think that something as seemingly inconsequential as pH could have a mighty impact on ageing but…

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Is Sunscreen Anti-ageing?

There is no doubt that long-term exposure to high levels of UV accelerates ageing Does this mean that you should do whatever you can to get your sun exposure to…

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Microbes & Your Skin

There’s an extraordinary thing going down on your skin TRILLIONS of microbes, from thousands of species, call your skin home.  Normally, they get along just fine, and they provide the…

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Learn To Love Your Microbes

  Your skin is an ecosystem and in the same way that your gut needs symbiotic microbes to function optimally, your skin needs microbes to maintain peak health. BIOME+ technology…