As summer has firmly arrived and the temperature is soaring, it is very easy to confuse dehydrated skin with dry skin. Whilst hot weather increases water loss from the body, leading to dehydration, you don't need to have dry skin to have dehydrated skin. Dry skin has a lack of...

UVA and UVB radiation dramatically increase the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in our skin, causing tissue damage and resulting in oxidative stress. The increase in ROS results in skin inflammation, changes to proteins and lipids, DNA damage and many more leading to cell death.  UVA causes the formation...