Without understanding how the skin is organized and what its processes are, you will hardly be able to relate certain cosmetics and ingredients with their basis and their possible effect. We promise that we are not going to give you a biology class, but rather we will explain in an entertaining way the basic functioning of this organ, its alterations and the basic approach to its care so that, when you read the list of ingredients of a product, you will check if it contains those substances that will fulfill the function that interests you at a certain moment and how they will achieve it. 

The skin is an organ characteristic of vertebrate animals. It forms the external cover that, as a protective barrier, isolates the body from the outside world. In the human species, the skin is the largest organ in the body. If we could separate it from the body, we would see that it occupies an approximate surface of 1.6 to 2.1 square meters and weighs about four kilograms! The science that studies skin diseases is dermatology and the person who specializes in treating them is a dermatologist.

The importance of skin care is universal, but did you know that South Korea is one of the countries with the greatest concern for the state of the skin? 

It is not so much a question of vanity as that in a society as hard-working as the Korean one, image plays a fundamental role in the role that one will assume within society. On the one hand, for a large part of Korean society, having well-cared for skin means having respect for oneself. On the other, the ritual that accompanies the application of these products becomes a sensorial and pleasurable tradition.

In Korea, skin care starts very early. From childhood, Korean women learn that they must dedicate several minutes a day, both morning and night, to pampering their skin. And not only them! Boys too. According to data from the consultancy Euromonitor International, South Korea is the largest market for men's cosmetics.