Barrier Skin Is Not Enough, This Is The Reason Gel's Biome Innovation Is Important To Maintain Microbiome Skin Balance

Yuki Kato is checking skin health (Doc. PONDS)

JAKARTA In recent years, skin barriers have become one of the hot topics in the beauty world because they play a very important role as the main protector of the skin, namely to maintain moisture, prevent irritation, and protect the skin from damage caused by pollution, free radicals, or infection.

Not surprisingly, beauty entrepreneurs are now increasingly looking for information and solutions to fix their skin barriers, as can be seen from Google Trends data showing that searches for 'skin barrier' keywords continue to increase to 500% between 2020 and 2024.

However, behind this phenomenon, many do not understand that keeping the skin barrier alone is not enough. The global study initiated by the National Institutes of Health of the United States shows that the fact of the skin barrier function is strongly influenced by the microbiome skin balance, which is a collection of microorganisms that naturally lives on the skin's surface.

dr. Anesia Tania, Sp, DV.E, FINSDV, Dermatologist explained, like a castle, the skin barrier is a fort that protects our skin from disturbances, while the skin microbiome is a soldier who protects the fort to stay strong. The disturbed microbiome skin ecosystem will have a direct impact on decreasing the function of the skin barrier, where the skin becomes more sensitive, easily exposed to environmental aggressors, and is prone to conditions such as dry skin, dull, acne, eczema, to irritation

On the other hand, balanced microbiome skins can strengthen skin barriers so as to accelerate skin regeneration, produce lactic acid or lactic acid that is beneficial for maintaining the balance of the skin ecosystem, to helping maintain skin pH balance.

For this reason, maintaining a microbiome skin balance is an important key in overall skin health care. One of them is using skincare products with prebiotic content that functions as a 'food' for microbes as well as an evil microbial growth controller, explained dr. Anes at the POND'S Biome Lab event in the South Jakarta area recently.

Esa Mahira Arman, Senior Brand Manager of PONDS said, as a skincare expert, his party observed that skin care solutions based on the increasing interest in beauty Enthusiasts in exploring science behind their skin needs are now growing very rapidly.

"Therefore, since 2007, the POND'S Skin Institute has become a pioneer who started an in-depth study of the skin microbiome in collaboration with dozens of well-known world research institutions and universities in collaboration in developing a variety of science and technology-based innovations. Armed with this extensive experience, it is now presenting a series of the first Gel Biome products in Indonesia that provide the first defense against aggressors in the outermost layers of the skin through the innovation of POND'S Ultra Light Biome Gel. With the main content in the form of millions of prebiotics, this product is formulated to balance the skin microbiome by keeping the skin natural pH for 72 hours non-stop," he said.

Dr. Utami Putri's study, R&D Beauty & Wellbeing Consumer Technical Insight & Claim Lead, Unilever Indonesia explained, education about skin health and the benefits of a series of POND 'S Ultra Light Biome Gel products recommended by dermatologists to maintain a balance of microbiome skins Consulting for free microbiome skin conditions offline and online for 6,000 beauty Enthusiasts with dermatologists.