Baby Skin.
In the early days of human existence, we live in a perfect world– our Mother’s womb. Your skin as the baby inside is a perfect neutral pH level of 7. Your skin is right, everything is right.
But this shortly ends because the world outside is far from perfect. Sensing the presence of potential harms (bacteria, pollution, climate, etc) while passing through the birth canal and finally out into the environment outside, the baby’s skin intelligently acidifies to a new normal pH level of 5.5.
This is the new number to reach to get the perfectly balanced, healthy, glowing skin–baby skin.
Baby Skin.
In the early days of human existence, we live in a perfect world– our Mother’s womb. Your skin as the baby inside is a perfect neutral pH level of 7. Your skin is right, everything is right.
But this shortly ends because the world outside is far from perfect. Sensing the presence of potential harms (bacteria, pollution, climate, etc) while passing through the birth canal and finally out into the environment outside, the baby’s skin intelligently acidifies to a new normal pH level of 5.5.
This is the new number to reach to get the perfectly balanced, healthy, glowing skin–baby skin.
pH 5.5
The magic number that keeps your microbiome living on your skin happy. This is the pH number of great importance to reach the perfectly balanced, healthy, glowing skin.
We are born equipped with natural self-care which exists as microbiome.
The microbiome, in simple words, is a community of good and bad bacteria, fungus, algae and archaea. The microbiome world is a wacky and wonderful place. Bacteria, good and bad, can somehow co-exist in harmonious balance.
They exist in three different places in our human bodies boosting our immunity to keep us healthy. They are namely in our digestive system (aka internal flora), on our skin (aka external flora) and finally in the female’s vagina area (aka vaginal flora).
The internal flora is responsible for our bodily immunity, which also plays a part in boosting our skin health from the inside out, after all the skin is the largest living organ. However, the external flora plays the critical part in ensuring we and our skin stay healthy from the outside.
The microbiome world is a wacky and wonderful place. Bacteria, good and bad, can somehow co-exist in harmonious balance– the result, healthy body, clear healthy skin.
As we grow older, we shift further away from pH perfection with hormonal changes, environment and internal stress, dirt and pollution.
Other factors include lifestyle and nutrition, frequent travelling, harmful UV and so on contribute further to the pH shift.
Back to basic self-care
The skin’s PH and microbiome can also be thrown off-balance due to poor personal hygiene, over-cleansing, using harsh solutions or antibiotic cream, applying too many beauty or makeup products.
A compromised pH and microbiome may potentially render many people with the condition whereby the bad bacteria begin to outnumber the good bacteria, that’s when skin pathogens (such as acne, eczema, redness, inflammation) may manifest.
So we could practise good self care that can help our natural self care mechanism– i.e microbiome to take better care of us.
The approach for healthy skin should be holistic, working from inside-out as well as outside-in. After all, again, our skin is the largest living organ!
The rhythm of happy skin.
Cleanse . Spray On . Play . Repeat .
The solution is simple to execute. Feed your gut well, your skin will be well.
So eat well, play well, sleep well. Yogurt, Kefir, Kombucha, Kimchi, Asparagus, Pomegranates, Red wine are some probiotic enriching food that will boost your good bacteria in your inner gut. We can do the same on the skin with some plant-based probiotics infused concoctions too!
Probiotics in skincare has been in the spotlight recently. To us, the prime thing to let one’s skin stay at its prime lies in upholding its pH and microbiome balance. Healthy skin equals happy skin. Guess what? 10 years ago we concocted toners that are packed with the goodness of probiotics and much more to regulate that balance. A decade later, we have just made them even better than before! Tell me more.
