The skin's own processes

Skin health

Health leads to beauty. It may sound controversial, but it actually isn't. Our dedication to promoting skin health lies in the fact that when skin is healthy, it will be as naturally beautiful as it can be. Healthy skin with a balanced microbiome, a strong skin barrier and good collagen production will appear beautiful, moisturized, elastic and vital. In this Beauty IQ theme you can get answers to three essential questions in relation to your skin. What is healthy skin, how do you get healthy skin, and what are the results of healthy skin?

What is healthy skin?

Healthy skin is first and foremost skin that you can't feel. It has an even skin tone and texture, as well as a beautiful natural glow. It feels comfortable without itching, tightness or burning. More importantly, healthy skin has a strong and well-functioning skin barrier. Healthy skin is also able to adapt to climate, circumstances and changes - internal as well as external.

The skin is more than a canvas

“Many people tend to think of the skin as “just” a shell or a canvas. On that canvas, for example, you can apply makeup. The canvas can also become a delicious brown or even a dangerous red. However, your skin can also go from being a canvas to becoming noticeable in a not-so-pleasant way. You may have experienced your skin as irritating with itching, burning, impurities, rashes or eczema. The skin is therefore so much more than a superficial shell that wraps the rest of the body.” - Skin & Fascia Specialist Katja Kunimori Hollnagel

The 3 essential functions of the skin

The skin performs three essential functions:

Your doorman
The skin is your outermost barrier or a kind of gatekeeper that ensures that unwanted guests such as bacteria, fungal spores, viruses and chemicals do not enter the body and wreak havoc.

Your temperature controller
The skin is your body's temperature regulator. In the summer, your skin lets out heat when you sweat. In the winter, you get goosebumps when your skin instead needs to retain heat.

Your secret agent
The skin is your secret agent, capturing lots of information from the world “outside.” For example, pressure, touch, and temperatures are registered through the skin.

Healthy skin is beautiful skin

Unfortunately, it is all too easy to think negatively about your skin. Skin often does not quite live up to what we see on social media or on large banners. We forget that that skin has most likely been heavily retouched. It is therefore easy to look at skin with “not good enough” glasses on. At Yrolí, we cannot ban retouching of the skin, but we can offer a much-needed new view of beauty and beauty ideals by promoting healthy natural skin with glow and vitality rather than the retouched trunk and blemish-free skin.

We need to change our focus and create a positive narrative about the skin, because the skin's natural processes are impressive. The skin has its own self-maintaining, self-repairing and self-healing power. The skin protects us, transmits information and gives us a sense of well-being, for example during a massage. Maintaining healthy skin is therefore much more important than "just" chasing tight and flawless skin. When you get healthy skin, you get skin where the natural processes have the best conditions, and therefore the skin becomes beautiful, as beautiful as the individual skin can be. And it is the skin itself that is best able to do the work that leads to healthy, beautiful skin.

How do you get healthy skin?

Your skin doesn't get red, irritated, blemished, wrinkled or sensitive to annoy you. It's actually trying to communicate with you and "nudge" you in a healthier direction. It could be your skincare, your diet, your emotional balance or your physical or mental well-being that needs adjusting.

You get the healthiest skin when you combine two things:

  • Use or do much less of what stresses the skin
  • Uses or does much more of what works with the skin

Yrolí’s skincare routines are designed to create balance and collaboration with the skin. Our recommendations are based on our one layer approach, where we use few but effective products. Instead of overloading the skin with many different products and layers, we promote the use of a few carefully formulated products at a time. Overloading the skin can create imbalance and disrupt its natural processes.

The results of healthy skin

Why does skin look beautiful when it is healthy? The answer lies in the skin's natural processes, which are crucial for maintaining beautiful skin. Some of the skin's essential processes are:

  • Cell renewal
  • Moisture balance
  • Sebum production
  • Collagen production
  • Blood circulation
  • Exfoliation
  • The immune system
  • Antioxidant defense

By supporting and promoting the skin's natural processes through, for example, skincare, diet, sleep, exercise and a general healthy lifestyle, you can help maintain the health, beauty and functionality of your skin. You also minimize the risk of your skin becoming sensitive, red, irritated, impure or otherwise reacting to being out of balance.

When skin functions optimally and looks healthy, it also feels and looks that way. The skin is more resilient, has an even skin tone and is moisturized, has a glow, is firm and elastic and has a good skin barrier that protects against harmful environmental factors.

Katja's 2 pieces of advice

“Healthy skin doesn’t magically appear if you just start using the latest, most hyped skincare product. Rather, healthy skin is the answer to the question: How well do you understand your skin? Can you interpret the skin’s signals and give it what it needs? - Skin & Fascia Specialist Katja Kunimori Hollnagel

  1. Clean up your skincare

You can start by doing less of what stresses the skin. Review your skin care products with a critical eye and get rid of anything that has too harsh ingredients. For example, on the INCI list, you can look for synthetic detergents, as these dry out the skin's surface and thus make it more delicate, exposed and unprotected.

You can read more about ingredients and the INCI list. here.

In another Beauty IQ theme, we give you the template to review all your skincare products so you can get the “smell” out. We also give you tips on how to find products that actually do something good for your skin and which ones you should avoid because they don’t work or unnecessarily burden your skin.

  1. Back in balance

Next, you can add more of what is good for the skin. By supporting the skin's natural processes through a collaboration with active skin care products with a high enough content of active ingredients of high enough quality, you give the skin the best conditions to be in balance.

These can be protective, nourishing and softening oils with carefully balanced ingredients that nourish and nudge the skin back into a healthy balance. When the skin is in balance, it is, as we know, both well-hydrated, well-functioning and healthy to look at and be in.

You can read more about our One Layer skincare here .