To not toot our personal horn, however we have been speaking about pores and skin biking years earlier than it blew up on social media. In actual fact, board-certified dermatologist and mindbodygreen Collective member Whitney Bowe, M.D., FAAD (who coined the time period “pores and skin biking”), has been discussing the idea with us from the start! 

“It is the identical manner you go to the fitness center,” she stated on the mindbodygreen podcast again in 2020. “If you wish to get your muscular tissues and your physique to be stronger, you need to alternate between intervals of intense exercise and restoration. And the identical factor holds true for the pores and skin barrier and the microbiome: They want days to recuperate.” 

Basically, pores and skin biking entails rolling by means of your energetic substances at evening to stop irritation. On evening one, you exfoliate; evening two is for retinol; then nights three and 4 are devoted to easy, nourishing hydration (ceramides, hyaluronic acid, and the like). We have lengthy been a champion of giving your pores and skin barrier a break, so contemplate us offered.