Welcome to Inside the Skin, an educational skincare science series by Irene Beauty and More.
Whether you’re a skincare enthusiast, ingredient nerd, or just someone tired of marketing fluff, this is your space to understand what truly goes on inside your skin.
What is Inside the Skin?
It’s a 15-part blog series designed to help you understand:
- How skincare products interact with your skin layers
- What controls absorption and penetration
- The biology of skin renewal, inflammation, and ageing
- How advanced technologies deliver active ingredients
- What makes ingredients effective—or not
We’re cutting through the noise with science-backed explanations, analogies, and real-world skincare insight.
The Series Topics
Click each post to dive in (new articles published weekly):
- Skin Absorption: Passive Diffusion vs. Active Transport – [Coming Soon]
- The Layers of the Skin: How Cosmetics Really Interact With Your Skin – [Coming Soon]
- Molecular Size and Skin Penetration: Why Not All Ingredients Go Deep – [Coming Soon]
- The Acid Mantle and Skin pH – [Coming Soon]
- What Happens to Ingredients After They Enter the Skin – [Coming Soon]
- Delivery Systems: Liposomes, Nanotech & More – [Coming Soon]
- Skin Renewal and Desquamation – [Coming Soon]
- Lipids, Ceramides, and the Skin Barrier – [Coming Soon]
- How Inflammation Affects Skin Function and Absorption – [Coming Soon]
- The Skin Microbiome: Your Invisible Ecosystem – [Coming Soon]
- Skin Aging and Structural Changes – [Coming Soon]
- Blood Flow and Lymph: How Skin Nourishes Itself – [Coming Soon]
- Hormones and Skin Behaviour – [Coming Soon]
- The Nervous System and Skin Sensations – [Coming Soon]
- The Future of Skin Science: Nanotech, Smart Delivery, and AI – [Coming Soon]
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