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The Sun and Smart Protection

The skin is a wonderful record keeper! every time you expose your skin to daylight, your skin adds up all those times like money in the bank! – the trouble is eventually the payoff catches up with you!, in the form of premature ageing, wrinkles and hyper-pigmentation and the risk of skin cancers. This world [...]

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Red Alert For Rosacea

Rosacea is actually quite a common skin problem. One in twenty people suffer from it to varying degrees, though many never realise they have it. About three times as many women have it as men. Multiple factors contribute to an alarming rise in this progressive neurovascular disorder which generally affects the facial skin. The bad [...]

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Psoriasis

Psoriasis is a distressing skin condition in which the skin cells renew too quickly, leading to scaliness and flaking, in other words abnormal skin growth. Usually the outer cells (Stratum Corneum) are shed so slowly that we barely notice, but in people with psoriasis, new cells are formed about a thousand times more quickly than usual, [...]

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Skin Sensitivity – A Sore Subject

Skin Sensitivity: Genetic or Environmental? No other skin is as misunderstood and hard to diagnose as Sensitive skin. In fact, most of us would have had some skin sensitivity at some point in our lives. A true Sensitive skin is caused by a genetic predisposition , mostly affecting very light/fair skinned individuals and usually of [...]

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Pigmentation and Damage Control

What is Pigmentation? The colour of your skin is the result of millions of years of evolution, which explains the wide range of skin tones we see in everyday life. People with origins close to the equator, where the sun is the most intense, had to develop protection against dangerous UV rays. The result? – [...]

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