Category: Skinformation
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What Is The Skin’s Barrier?
Here’s a quick, little infographic to help you clarify what people mean when they say you have to look after you skin’s barrier. Read more
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What Is Retinol?
Today’s topic for my skinfographic is retinol because, well, you asked for it. If you haven’t seen already I have a Monday morning session of ‘ask me anything’ on my Instagram (@scienceandskincare) and a few of you DM’d with questions about retinol. Questions like: what is it? How is it different from retinoids? And how…
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SPF, The Basics
Hello everyone! Welcome to my new series all about sharing information easily. Well, that’s kinda what this whole blog is about but this series will be focused specifically on how to understand some frequently asked questions in the most simple way possible. The kind of posts which you save to go back to when you’ve…
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Skinformation: Melasma
What is melasma? Melasma is a type of hyperpigmentation. It is a common skin condition that causes dark, discoloured patches on your skin. The skin discoloration doesn’t do any physical harm, but you may feel self-conscious about the way it looks. There are three types of Melasma: Epidermal melasma affects the top layer of skin and…
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Skinformation: Vitiligo
What is vitiligo? Vitiligo, pronounced vit-ih-LIE-go, is a long-term condition where pale white patches develop on the skin. It is the most common skin depigmentation disorder that affects approximetley 0.5% of the world’s population. Half of people affected present vitiligo before the age of 20 and both sexes are equally affected by the condition. Vitiligo…
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Skinformation: What Is Acne?
Acne causes spots, oily skin and sometimes skin that’s hot or painful to touch. It is usually associated with hormonal fluctuations experienced during your teenage years, but adults can experience acne, too. In fact, it is one of the most common skin conditions among both children and adults.
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Skinformation: Psoriasis
Psoriasis is a skin condition that typically causes flaky red patches of skin covered in silver scales. But are who gets it and does it ever go away?
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Skinformation: Keratosis Pilaris
I knew I had to cover this skin condition at some point in this series because it effects 50-70 percent of the adult population and many don’t even know what this is. I know this because I have it and for years I had no idea what it was, how to treat it and how…
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Skinformation: Harlequin Itchyosis
Welcome to my new series all about understanding what makes your skin behave the way it does. There are a vast amount of skin conditions that are caused by defects to your genome and so I wanted a place on my blog where you could look into the lumps, bumps and everything else that you…