Dr. Shawana Vali

And what it does every day, it renews and turns over.

It repairs itself.

But when the beauty layer is a bit broken, then that doesn't happen either.

So then suddenly you're exposed to environmental toxins coming in and causing more inflammation.

Right.

So that's what happens.

Yeah, so firstly, you're lucky you're not a woman.

So you're not going through all the pressures that we have to go through.

But the pressures are coming your way, don't worry.

But here's the thing.

So the key thing here is education.

I'm quite privileged because we've been educated with a certain knowledge.

So I can look at ingredients and say, this is going to work on my skin or this is not going to work on my skin.

This ingredient is going to sit on the beauty layer and do nothing apart from cause a barrier.

Or it's going to go down to the medical layer of skin and it's going to upregulate the good stuff.

Right.

Or it's going to cause free radical damage and downregulate the good stuff.

So that's the key thing here.

Anything that's available over the counter,

It sits on the epidermis.