The Skin Blog
HOW TO: HYDRATION HACKS FOR GLOWING, WINTER SKIN
DR COOK EXPLAINS HOW TO WINTER-PROOF YOUR SKIN AGAINST COOLER TEMPERATURES, DRYING WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY LEVELS. While I’m not a big believer in skin types, your ‘type’ can change at different times due to a range of factors to which skin responds, a significant one being weather and a change in season. In the cooler, Winter months, your skin can be impacted with moisture loss from a significant dip in temperature and humidity levels, drying winds and overheating from air-conditioned environments at home, in the office and in your car. For glowing, Winter skin I recommend the following: AVOID...
The Silent Skin Damager...Blue Light
Why Tinted SPF is a daily essential! You can’t see it, you can’t feel it …but this is how blue light silently affects your skin. We all know the damaging impact of UVA UVB on our skin when it comes to skin ageing and increasing our risk of skin cancer. But did you know visible light (one wavelength of the visible light spectrum) is equally as damaging, just slowly and silently. According to a study by Unilever, 30 hours of exposure to blue light from smartphones or laptops can increase the inflammation level in skin cells by 40%! Given the...