Climate change has been wreaking havoc on our largest organ: the skin. Extreme heat, pollution and changing rainfall can worsen skin conditions. As a result, skin products have also had to evolve to keep up with changing demands.

On the surface

Skin is “exquisitely sensitive” to climate and ecological changes, said Louise Andersen, the cochair of the International Society of Dermatology Committee on Climate Change and a dermatologist at Aleris-Hamlet Hospitals in Denmark, to Harvard Medicine . It is the first barrier against the environment, pathogens and UV radiation, so it is also one of the first organs to be affected by the rapidly changing climate . It is a “delicate system where the balance has shifted in recent years.”

Many different aspects of climate change can have a

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