The New Way To Tell How Healthy Skin Is
The answer, which Cle de Peau Beaute scientists found, is in your skin capillaries. Here’s how to get them working at their best.
The answer is in your skin capillaries. Here’s how to get them working at their best.
Capillaries are the tiniest blood vessels in your body and play a big part in exchanging good stuff for bad stuff between your blood and tissues.
Japanese skincare brand Cle de Peau Beaute discovered that skin capillaries are weaker in older skin, which affects firmness. Kentaro Kajiya, the scientist who uncovered the link, says capillaries make a protein that brings collagen to areas where it’s lacking, to keep skin firm. But weak capillaries = poorer circulation = less collagen delivered.
The finding is at the heart of the brand’s skin intelligence concept, which looks at skin’s ability to regenerate. Its newest Le Creme, a lifting cream used after moisturiser, promises to help boost the capillaries’ ability to repair and protect, for a youthful, supple complexion. It’s packed with 60 ingredients that La Creme’s product developer Moe Shimazaki says addresses dryness, sagging, wrinkles, fine lines, pores, roughness and dullness.
Use La Creme at night, when skin needs it most. “Skin’s ability to function becomes less active during sleep, which means its defence against stressors caused during the day will not function at optimal levels at night.” This results in ageing skin.
Key to the formula is the skin-empowering illuminator with five ingredients – extracts of platinum golden silk, Japanese pearl shell, theanine, perilla and Angelica acutiloba – said to improve collagen production and help skin regenerate faster. Expect smoother, lifted and radiant skin in 14 days, and a real difference in eight weeks. – SL