Investigating the microbiota and beyond

Skin balance is a notion which can often be associated with a utopian state of the skin. For a long time, cosmetics have used scientific expertise to erase or reduce the effects of skin imbalances. This year, Silab offers an innovative strategy based on the analysis and regulation of the factors causing these skin disorders. To this end, the company suggests taking into account both the microbiota and the skin biological processes in order to achieve a longterm balance.

Nature is governed by an indispensable but fragile equilibrium between fauna and flora inhabiting the same space. This interdependence of billions of lives on Earth has maintained a natural order for millennia in spite of the great diversity of species and the complex unicity of each biotope. In ancient Chinese philosophy, Yin-Yang expresses all the concrete dualities of life: a set of opposite and complementing forces in the same universe, controlling the vitality of Nature and paradoxically, forming one and the same unit.

As with Earth, the skin is an ecosystem affected by the symbiosis of relations of various communities inhabiting it, called the microbiota, and the natural mechanisms that ensure its physiological functions. These two parameters strategically keep watch to protect this harmony from all types of internal or external stress that could imperil the delicate balance of the skin.