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Anti-Pollution Drops regularly to protect against both environmental pollution and HEV rays from digital screens.
Can you share with us your three top skincare tips?
My fundamental advice never changes – healthy skin is glowing, beautiful skin. Protect and boost your skin barrier function, provide your skin with essential nutrition, drench the skin with hydration and combat inflammation with skincare ingredient science. Avoid makeup and aggressive skincare, and allow your skin to heal and have full skin barrier functions to protect from stressors outside. And despite its popularity, avoid acid peels and aggressive lasers that inflame and prematurely age your skin. Heal and protect your skin instead, and it will glow.
What does your pre-bedtime nightly ritual look like?
At night, cleansing the skin before bed is
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essential to remove pollution, pathogens, oil, makeup and other impurities from the skin before sleep. Cleansing also prepares the skin to receive active ingredients that assist the body’s reparative processes in the night. I also invented a Night Serum that boosts the nightly renewal process with active ingredients that include Cotton Thistle Extract to counteract dryness and stressed skin, Senna Alata Extract that aids the skin’s own protection against UV-induced damage and Poria Cocos, which provides astringent, toning and calming properties. My proprietary formulation of high dose, molecularly balanced Hyaluronic Acid works throughout the night to replenish moisture reservoirs at multiple skin layers by binding up to 1,000 times its weight in water. I also take my Sleep Food supplements before bed, especially after a stress-filled day. It’s a blend of natural active ingredients that relax the body and mind and helps me fall asleep sooner and deeper.
Which fragrance do you choose for daytime?
Byredo – Bal D’Afrique.
What is the most surprising item on your beauty shelf?
Actually on my refrigerator shelf – a gallon of whole milk. My family takes regular milk baths, which is a wonderful DIY for your skin.
Looking at the skincare industry today, what do you feel is women’s biggest concern?
I think the biggest concern is the search for healthy, glowing skin, which eclipses all specific concerns. Due to increasing prevalence of aggressive skin treatments for home use, such as acids, the concerns have actually shifted from anti-ageing to sensitivity, redness and inflammation-caused skin dysfunctions.