How to Balance and Maintain Your Skin's Microbiome

July 1, 2022 TrūAura .

Can you guess what the largest organ in the human body is? Most people think it's the heart or the liver, but the largest human organ is actually the one we wear on the outside: our skin! Although sensation is one of the skin's primary functions, perhaps its most important function is protecting the rest of your body.

That means you need to protect your skin's environment, namely its microbiome.

What is Skin Microbiome?

Your skin teems with millions of invisible, life-forms including bacteria, fungi, and other microorganisms. The skin microbiome is an integral part of your overall health. It serves as a barrier that protects the health and balance of the bacteria you want and need on your skin. It varies based on a specific body part. As you can imagine, the microbiome on your face is radically different from your feet.

Read on to learn how you can improve the health of your skin’s precious microbiome.

The Power of Probiotics

You already know that probiotics are good for gut health, but they are also essential for maintaining your skin and overall health. Probiotics are foods or supplements with living microorganisms that help maintain or improve normal microflora in or on the body. The most well-known form of probiotics is yogurt.

Prebiotics act as food for microflora in the gut and skin. These organisms improve the balance of human microflora. They can help improve skin's overall health when added to topical products like face cream, serum, clean makeup, and other skincare products.

Harmful Effects of an Imbalanced Skin Microbiome

Damaged skin indicates an imbalance between the beneficial versus harmful microflora populations. Healthy, balanced skin that functions at optimal capacity acts as a biodynamic membrane that constantly decides what it lets in and keeps out. A healthy barrier keeps skin moist while irritants and pathogens remain outside.

An unhealthy skin barrier, or microbiome, is often apparent as it's associated with many health conditions. These include:

Allergies
Eczema
Psoriasis
Dermatitis
Dandruff
Acne
Rosacea
Poor wound healing
Skin ulcers
Yeast and fungal infections
Accelerated skin aging

Even sensitive skin is a sign of imbalance. Problems can occur when even one strain in the microbiome begins to overgrow.

How to Restore Your Skin Microbiome

Working your way to a balanced skin microbiome is easier than you think.

Consider Your Lifestyle and Environment

Do you eat properly? What kind of skin problems do you have? Your age and the area where you live also come into play.

A middle-aged mother who lives in the desert southwest will have radically different skin than one who lives in the humid southeast.

Next, Consider Your Skincare History

Has skin care been a lifelong priority, or have you only started to incorporate it once signs of aging began to develop?

Evaluate Your Current Products

The key is to identify products you need to remove. For example, your cleanser might be too harsh, or maybe you are overdoing it with moisturizers that disrupt your skin's pH.

Your environment, age, and daily habits all contribute to your skin’s health. Once you’ve established your baseline, you can take action.

Your Daily Microbiome Skin Care Routine

Starting with a simple skincare routine, featuring TrūAura products, in the morning and evening will put you on the path to a better microbiome. Here's what you need to do:

Morning Skincare Routine

Step 1 - Cleanse your face by dispensing Nourishing Cleanser into your palm, lather with water, gently massage onto dampened skin. Then, rinse thoroughly and pat skin dry.
Step 2 - After cleansing, moisten a cotton pad with Refreshing Tonic and gently swipe over your face and neck (avoid your eye area)
Step 3 - Apply a pearl-sized drop of BioLifting Hydration Serum to your palm and gently massage your face to absorb it.
Step 4 - Apply a generous amount of Advanced Repair Day Treatment to the face and neck area and gently massage to absorb
Step 5 - Apply a generous amount of Advanced Repair Eye Treatment to the applicator and smooth under your eye, as well as onto the eyelid itself under the brow, blending onto the eyelid itself. Tap to absorb..
Step 6 - Generously massage Replenishing Day Lotion to your face and neck using a small, circular motions across your face.

Evening Skin Care Routine

Repeat your a.m. routine again in the evening, however, you’ll forgo your “Day” products in favor of specially-formulated nighttime products including Replenishing Night Cream and Advanced Repair Night Treatment Serum .

*Optional Step - Use Rejuvenating Microdermabrasion Treatment up to 3 times per week after using a Nourishing Cleanser

TrūAura Beauty has made your morning and evening skincare routine even easier to do with the Healthy Skin Bundle kit. This set features our core skincare bundle complete with advanced eye repair treatment, and some proven clinical results! It contains everything you need to restore your skin’s microbiome!

Ditch Harsh Cleansers

Many generic and name-brand cleansers include surfactants that remove essential defensive components that protect your skin's barrier. When this barrier is compromised, it can't protect you from aggressors like pollutants, sun damage, and more.

Read the ingredients on your chosen cleaner versus microbiome cleansers. The latter will contain ingredients like coconut water, essential fatty acids, Vitamin E, and other ingredients that nourish your skin instead of striping it. Eventually, your skin will return to its optimal balance.

Watch Your Diet

In some ways, your gut and skin microbiomes are different, yet they remain interconnected. A healthy gut equals healthy skin. Make sure your diet contains whole foods, including prebiotics like onions, oats, and legumes, along with probiotics such as yogurt.

A diet rich in prebiotics and probiotics can help alleviate atopic dermatitis, acne, eczema, and related skin problems. Remember the adage; you are what you eat.

Add Microbiome Skin Care Products

TrūAura Beauty has an entire line of core skincare formulated with probiotics and prebiotics to nourish and restore your skin microbiome. We make it easy for you to get on the right track.

Use Products With Sunscreen

Protecting your skin against ultraviolet rays to prevent skin cancer is the prime reason to use products with sunscreen, but the barrier against ultraviolet rays presents a bonus: it also provides a barrier that protects against oxidative stress, which rapidly ages the skin. Minimizing stress helps revitalize your microbiome as it's part of a routine that respects your skin and helps it glow.

Treat Your Skin Well, With TrūAura Beauty

At TrūAura, we are committed to creating effective skincare and beauty products with the health of our customers and the planet's well-being in mind. What sets us apart from our competitors is that our pure products contain prebiotics, probiotics, and non-toxic ingredients that are microbiome-friendly to support healthy skin.