Interworkings of cosmetics and your skin !
Healthy skin reflects a healthy microbiome and vice versa. The contemporary society, marked by a sharp increase in skin irritation cases, ha
My motivation for this article is to get a better understanding of skin. Skin is the most important thing on our bodies. Nowadays, consumers tend to purchase products based on their packaging, which is a form of marketing. However, when you turn the product over and read the label, you will notice that the ingredients are bizarre. How do we know if this is truly safe or good for us? Our skin is the only one we have, so we must care for it. I chose this article because it goes into great detail about products and skin microbiome. What exactly do body care products do to our skin?
This article delves deeply into the ways in which cosmetics interact with your microbiome. To begin, let us define a microbiome. According to the article, the microbiome is an assemblage of a complex community of microbes (bacteria, archaea, fungi, algae, protists, and viruses) and their biomolecules occupying a well-defined habitat in or on a living or non-living object. Now that is a whole lot of science terminology. To summarize, if your microbiome is healthy, your skin will be healthy. This article demonstrates, as I read it, how various cosmetic items, such as body wash, exfoliants, and much more, affect the microbiome. Synthetic materials in products impact the health of the skin. That is why some products are labeled as "microbiome friendly" to alert customers. All things considered, effective techniques for comparing the skin microbiome after using skincare products must be looked into.
It was stated that, To prevent such problems, many individuals use different skin care products, such as lotions [73], which have proven to be effective reducing sebum production. However, decreased sebum can also result in a reduced food source for microbes, leading to a decline in the number of Staphylococcus bacteria and causing an imbalance in the skin microbiome. This is going into depth with the body care products, in particular skin care products. Sebum, an ingredient in skincare products, can cause an imbalance in your skin by reducing the number of bacteria that sebum produces. It may cause the skin's biome to become disturbed and unstable.