Dr. Natasha Cook

That's a nice little tip.

Secondly, if that's super inflamed, I will add a short-term anti-inflammatory steroid ointment to basically reduce the inflammation, but also use the more intensive and rich glycerin emulsifying ointment-based product together to switch off the inflammation while the glycerin emulsifying ointment product is during the barrier function.

Then once the inflammation is gone, the barrier is back, I drop out the steroid ointment, which usually happens within one to two weeks.

Sometimes people see beneficial within a two-day.

I'm like, do it for at least a week.

I want your skin to be perfect.

Remission, I want that barrier to get back to its natural skin health.

Then we can start reintroducing some of the other things like your makeups, new things you're normally using.

So it's like having a break in a breather to bring back the skin health.

Because if we think we're there and we're not, we then end up being on this vicious circle of reflaring the skin.

So doing a really simple, concentrated, restorative, like remission base for one to two weeks with those couple of tips, I can usually get the skin back to total high functioning in normal skin.

And then I teach them how to look after their skin moving forwards with the right moisturizing techniques to survive winter.

But then also to be able to sustain the makeups and things I like to wear.

It's terrible.

It's called angular colitis.

So angular because it's the corners of the mouth, colitis, inflammation of the lips.

So

inflammation of the lip in the corners of the mouth.

And then what ends up happening, saliva gets caught in there, then the mechanical, and then it just accelerates.

So really good barrier restorative balms, plus or minus.