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Living in the Arabian Gulf or a similar climate? Why you really need anti-inflammatories in your skincare
Living in the Arabian Gulf or similar climate?
Why you really need anti-inflammatories in your skincare
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Everyone living in the Arabian Gulf is exposed to searing summer temperatures, very dry, cold winter winds and a significant amount of natural wind-blown dust that carries microscopic skin irritants. For some, these environmental conditions don't pose any problem but for others who have a damaged skin barrier, redness, itching, inflammation and stinging are common and uncomfortable complaints.
What is actually happening at the cellular level is irritants are able to penetrate the skin causing an inflammatory response. And precious water is leaking out (this is different to sweating) causing dehydrated skin. And so the vicious cycle continues of increasing dehydrated, sensitive and rough skin. So too, with the increase in destructive free radicals being produced more collagen, elastin and hyaluronic acid are being destroyed.
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Chronic inflammation is associated with facial hyperpigmentation, even in those who never expose their skin to the sunshine. One more reason to be sure that your products are rich in anti inflammatories
The vicious circle of irritation/ damaged barrier
Stuck in the Inflammation/Leaky Skin Barrier Cycle?
How to get out of it.
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- Use products with effective anti-inflammatory actives to help prevent and reduce the effects of inflammation. All BLOOM products are formulated with a wide ranging combination of anti-inflammatory agents
- Ensure your day cream contains barrier repair actives. BLOOM Collagenesis Day Cream has the perfect blend of ceramides, cholesterol + essential fatty acids
- Use Glycolic 17 or 20 to exfoliate. Avoid harsh 'physical' scrubs and excessive friction
- Avoid very hot or cold temperatures when possible
- Avoid harsh surfactant, foaming cleansers that can damage the skin barrier by removing the protective lipid layer.
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BLOOM provides ALL the needed components to contol and prevent inflammation whether caused by environmental irritants or harsh surfactant cleansers used to remove sophisticated makeup
What are the best anti-inflammatory actives in skincare?
There are lots of botanical and natural anti-inflammatory agents available to cosmetic formulators today and these nature-derived products can exhibit really powerful anti-inflammatory activity. There still isn't enough clinical evidence though to show how one anti-inflammatory might be better than another because they are usually used in a combination.
There is however a good amount of recent research surrounding some of the more obvious and widely used natural anti-inflammatory agents. One particularly helpful discovery is that many powerful anti-inflammatory actives are known to also be powerful antioxidants and visa versa meaning we are getting double the benefit from some skincare actives! That's exactly what we want.
BLOOM has combined the best multiactive agents to deliver you double the benefit in half the time.
- Green tea & White tea
- Licorice root extract
- Date seed extract
- Black cumin seed oil
- Chamomile extract
- Bakuchiol
- Vitamin C
- Niacinimide
- Glycerine
- Immortelle extract
- Daisy Flower extract
- Bisabolol.
- Hyaluronic acid
- Vitamin E
- Ceramides
- Peptides
