Your skin takes a beating every day—sun rays, dirty air, even the glow from your phone. How do you keep it healthy and looking good? The Skincare Pyramid, straight from the 2014 Journal of Drugs in Dermatology, is a conceptual model that works from the outside in, starting with the top layer of your skin […]

As a pharmacist, I often counsel consumers on the safe use of skincare products, particularly skin-lightening creams, where the risk of mercury adulteration looms large. Mercury, a potent yet toxic heavy metal, is still illegally added by unethical companies into some skincare formulations for its rapid depigmenting effects. In Malaysia from 2020 to 2025, 56

As you are in the shower lathering up with your favourite bar of soap, shampooing your hair and applying the moisturizer after shower, these routines feel harmless, right? These products are for external use, nothing to worry about. Wait a minute. Your skin is the body largest organ, whatever you put on it  can affect

Think of Proxylane as your skin’s personal architect and engineer.. Sometime after my 40th birthday I started seeking for THE skincare that can keep my skin plump, firm, and glowing, albeit fifteen years late (should have started at 25). Those bottles and jars were either too dear or not enough to nourish my skin. Something

Human body goes through not one, but two major aging processes in its cells and biochemistry; first at 44, then at around 60 years old It can come as quite a shock to look in the mirror and realize we don’t look quite as young as we used to. Whether you’re in your early 30s

One study in 2021 found that more than half of the 231 cosmetic products purchased in the US and Canada had undisclosed high fluorine content, with 29 of them detected to contain PFAS. 1. What is PFAS? Why do you need to know about it? PFAS stands for per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances, also called the forever

Cosmeceutical is the term given by Dr Albert Kligman in the 80s when he was working on the retinoids. During that time, encouraging discoveries were found on the anti aging effects of retinoids on the skin. However since cosmeceuticals are not used to treat for cure of skin disorders, they are not regulated and scrutinized

Did you know your skin is the largest organ in your body? If you could spread it out flat, it would cover about 2 square meters, weigh around 10 kg, and contain 17 km of blood vessels and 5 million nerve endings. Imagine your bones and muscles wrapped in this 10 kg layer of skin.