So yesterday, I showed you that the saying “beauty is more than skin deep” rings true. Even scientists at Beiersdorf laboratories, who created the NIVEA VISAGE DNAge Cell Renewal range to stimulate healthy skin cell renewal, agreed that 80% of skin aging is a result of external influences such as diet, lifestyle, pollutants and exposure to sunlight which lead to damages at the skin cells. I have no idea if their products really work in terms of improving the skin’s cellular renewal process but today, I’ll like to examine how we can control those external influences to improve the health of our skin cells and make ourselves look better.

I was never good in science or biology but I do know that the cell is the functional basic unit of our life. And because skin is the human body’s largest organ, this naturally means that if we are able to maintain healthy cells, we can have better looking skin. This is the reason why many experts, including leading dermatologists like Dr Nicolas Perricone and Dr Jeanette Graf have been encouraging healthy diets for beautiful skin.  Today, I’ll share with you eight facts that I’ve found about our skin cells.