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Affordable Skincare That British women take skincare seriously is an indisputable fact: a fact supported by an impressive annual spend of £900m - that is about £43 each!And there are literally thousands of brand choices available: everything a girl could want is on offer from the promise of eternal youthfulness to skin that glows in the dark. But the dominant product themes of the past 20 years are purity and science. Right now however, in the midst of this economic downturn, affordability is also a key concern for most consumers. Skincare That Works Consumers want products that work and in a technological age this...

Why Do I Have Problems With My Skin? Every skin is different – subtly perhaps – but nevertheless different. What makes each skin different is down to six well documented factors. In a good news/bad news scenario, four of these influencing factors are very much under our control, but the bad news is that two are not. Genes – we inherit the characteristics of our skin and we need to understand what these are because we cannot change them – they are part of our blueprint! We can do nothing about our genes except to understand what they have dealt us. This is...

Importance of photo-protection Yin Yang Skincare Scientific Advisory Panel Member Professor Desmond Tobin presented a paper to the 39th Annual Meeting of European Society for Dermatological Research in Budapest in September 2009, on a newly discovered mechanism controlling the transfer of melanin granules [our inbuilt colouring agent] from the pigment producing cells (melanocytes) to the recipient skin cells (keratinocytes). Prof. Tobin proposed that photo-protection would be increased if melanin distribution in skin could be optimised in order to shield the delicate DNA in skin cells from the damaging effects of sunlight. Professor Tobin joined several research scientists from across Europe...

Vitamin D Health Benefits Back in August, “High Summer” in fact, you may have read our blog piece Sun & Skin: A Little Goes A Long Way? Skin Science Reporter had been visiting New Zealand and discovered that the fear of sun induced cancers has caused Kiwis to cover up so comprehensively that they are now often to be found deficient in Vitamin D. Recently Vitamin D has been much in the news, [see FT Weekend Magazine October 24/25 2009; Cover Story and FT.com] after a long period when it has been vastly overshadowed by Vitamins A, B, C & E in...

Plant Medicines The Doctrine of Signatures is a belief system based on the thought that God put plants on Earth for the therapeutic benefit of Mankind. It is easy to see how people might have come to this belief when, according to the World Health Organisation some 80% of the human population across the Planet use plant medicines for all or part of their health requirements. For people in the Developing Economies this is partly due to tradition and partly it is due to poverty. But even in the affluent OECD countries, many consumers today are turning back to herbal remedies for...