January 28, 2021 - Richard Troy

Skincare 101: knowing and understanding your skin type

Knowing and understanding your skin type is one of the very basics when wanting to start a skin care routine. Your base skin type will depend upon genetics, but it can vary greatly based on climate, environmental factors, age, hormonal factors (puberty, pregnancy, menopause, …), stress, lifestyle, diseases, use of certain medications and more. Tailoring […]

Cosmeceuticals and cosmetic ingredients: introduction to skincare

January 28, 2021 / By Richard Troy / Cosmeceuticals, Cosmetic Dermatoloy, Skin, Skincare

Cosmeceutical is a word first introduced in the 1980s as the combination of “cosmetic” and “pharmaceutical”, to describe products that contain an active ingredient known to exert a biological therapeutic effect on the skin. From a regulatory point of view the term cosmeceutical has no meaning; a product can be a cosmetic, a drug, or

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