Dermoceutics: a new-white paper on skin health
Discover our white-paper on dermoceutics and skin health!
Beyond their nutritional role, food supplements can contribute to maintaining certain physiological functions, within a non-therapeutic framework. Applied to skin health, nutricosmetics sit at the intersection of nutrition, cosmetics and dermatology. They offer a comprehensive approach designed to support skin structure, function and comfort, alongside topical skincare.
The skin acts as an essential barrier between the body and its environment. Every day, it is exposed to UV radiation, pollution, climatic variations, nutritional imbalances, and various environmental stressors.
These factors can promote oxidative stress and inflammatory processes, while progressively affecting components of the extracellular matrix, particularly collagen. Over time, these imbalances may contribute to reduced skin barrier integrity, hydration, and the skin’s natural repair capacity.
Against this backdrop, nutricosmetic solutions now focus on three key challenges: preserving youthful-looking skin, strengthening protection against external stressors, and supporting long-term skin health and comfort. [1]
Preserving youthful-looking skin
Skin ageing is a multifactorial process resulting from intrinsic mechanisms and environmental factors such as exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation, oxidative stress, inflammation, mitochondrial dysfunction, and cellular senescence.
Food supplements designed to support skin beauty are therefore being studied for their ability to support the body’s antioxidant defences, skin hydration and the synthesis of essential components of the extracellular matrix, including collagen. [2]
Supporting photoprotection
The skin must also cope with the cumulative effects of UV exposure. Repeated exposure can promote oxidative stress, cellular damage, alterations to the extracellular matrix, redness, and photoageing.
This is why certain nutrients and bioactive compounds, particularly carotenoids, polyphenols and other antioxidants, are attracting growing interest as part of a nutritional strategy to complement external sun protection. [2]
Références :
1- Pérez-Sánchez, A. et al, 2018
2- Ibrahim, M. et al, 2025
