#skin-barrier

#skin-barrier

I wouldn't say it was rare that the beauty industry invents a whole new product category, but my own willingness to adopt another step certainly is. Ten years ago, I'd have told you not to bother with toner unless you particularly enjoyed using it, which is as good a reason as any in a world on fire. And yet over the past couple of years, the new milky toners have, to me at least, become so functional as to be indispensable.

Autumn is the season for layering up-and that goes for your skincare, too. As temperatures drop and the heating goes on, many of us notice our faces feeling tighter, drier and more easily irritated-a phenomenon dermatologists sometimes call 'autumn face.' Speaking to the Daily Mail, Dr Derrick Phillips, a consultant dermatologist and spokesperson for The British Skin Foundation, says it all comes down to the health of our skin barrier-the watertight seal that protects the skin's outer layer, the epidermis.