The Journal
Botanical ingredients, formulation, traditional preparations, skin science and evidence.
Sea buckthorn has become one of natural skincare’s most enthusiastically promoted oils, associated with barrier repair, hydration, acne, eczema and ageing. Its chemistry provides genuine reasons for interest, but how much of the reputation survives when laboratory evidence is separated from human clinical research?
Read the articleWe talk constantly about moisturising, nourishing, soothing and protecting our skin, yet all of those ideas depend upon an extraordinarily thin structure at its surface. Understanding the skin barrier changes the way we think about skincare.
Read the articleVitamin E appears on countless skincare labels, but the ingredient hiding behind those two familiar words is not always the same. Tocopherol and tocopheryl acetate both belong to the vitamin E story, yet differences in their chemistry affect their stability, antioxidant behaviour and role within a cosmetic formulation.
Read the articleAt fifty I have finally let rose into my skincare cabinet properly. I had been resisting it for years, partly on principle (the marketing around rose is some…
Read the articleAt fifty, skin behaves differently. Oestrogen falls, collagen production slows, the lipid barrier becomes less reliable, and the small mistakes that did not matter at thirty start to…
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