The best defence

摘要

Skin is the body's largest organ and its first line of defence,making it susceptible to a variety of stressors. These can be significant enough to ruin its integrity,thus rendering it unable to perform its main function. So how do we protect the’protector'? This article will discuss the different types of problems the skin encounters and highlights ingredients currently on the market to enable us to formulate cosmetics and personal care products to protect and preserve skin. Living in a digital age comes with many comforts and luxuries. We have access to some brilliant tools to make our lives more efficient,from paying for parking our cars using smartphone applications to using smart speakers to advise us on which skin care we should be using. In theory,these technological advances should be enhancing our lives and wellbeing;however,some of these actually expose us to many factors which can negatively impact our skin and cause us to lead unhealthy lifestyles because of our dependency on them.