THE MICROBIOME
Helping your natural skin protection
The skin microbiome is the wonderful world of skin flora - essential, useful and occasionally unwanted microbes that live on your skin. Ideally this is a joyous community which plays an enormous role in your skin health. Balancing and nourishing the microbiome creates what we call “fitter” skin that can be repaired by itself.
When your microbiome is unhealthy and unbalanced it's like sucking all the nutrients from a lush, bountiful garden and watching it wither. The skin gets stressed and cortisol production increases, seriously slowing production of collagen and hyaluronic acid. This, in turn, makes the skin drier, thinner and weaker... with more wrinkles.
The acid mantle, the natural protective layer that covers your skin can be damaged by too much scrubbing and effectively neutralised by cleansers that are too alkaline. This causes barrier problems -the road to breakouts, inflammation and allergies.
A big part of our design philosophy was to make products that are beneficial to the skin microbiome and protect the acid mantle.