Skin Microbiome and Cosmetic Products: Facts and Fiction
By Gopinathan K. Menon and Roger L. McMullen
The skin microbiome has been a hot topic for quite some time in skin research and for researchers. Both consumers and the cosmetic industry have boarded the bandwagon—sometimes with different end results in focus. There is a large and growing consumer base who believes that the skin microbiome is a rather delicate component of skin, which is ‘endangered’ by chemical and biological assaults from the ingredients (actives and preservatives) in personal care products.
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More questions than answers. Hard to “follow the science”. Plenty of reason to be skeptical
Thanks for posting this. It is still very early in our understanding of the complex biological system that is the skin microbiome. Way too early for certainty. The best we can hope is that some of what we think we know is a gross oversimplification of something that we can’t yet imagine. The rest is still yet to be discovered. Science is a disciplined practice of wonder, fueled by curiosity and tempered by humility.
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