The skin is our first major line of defence. It is the interface between external and internal environments. Any changes to either of these environments has a significant impact on the skin.

The skin has a huge responsibility to play from a health perspective but we tend to put a lot of pressure on it from an aesthetic perspective. The personal relationship we have with our skin and how it makes us feel also plays an important role.

Our modern day lifestyles also put our skin into a compromised state. For example, indoor living, poor diets and products made with harsh chemicals.

This is why at Emma Lewisham, we have the utmost reverence for the skin. From a formulation perspective our job is to try and restore the skin to its optimal state of health. We aren’t trying to manipulate it to do anything that it shouldn’t already do. Our products work in harmony with the skin to encourage it to act in the way it was designed to.

Structurally, the skin has two key layers. The base layer is called the dermis. This is where your skin’s physical structure comes from, it’s the scaffolding. It is where collagen and elastin live. The dermis is what gives strength and integrity to the skin and is the area we are looking at targeting when we do any wrinkle resistance work.