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CARING FOR POSTPARTUM SKIN: SAFE TREATMENTS RECOMMENDED BY DERMATOLOGISTS

After delivery, your hormones drop fast, and your skin feels it. Add in physical recovery, disrupted sleep and dehydration from breastfeeding and postpartum skin can feel drier, more sensitive, more breakout-prone, or slower to bounce back. You're recovering from so much already. Your skincare shouldn't be one more thing to figure out.

THE NEW MUM GIFT SET: THE DATA

User trials conducted on 50 pregnant women over 4 weeks

Glow & Go Daily Moisturiser With Mineral SPF 30

✓ 91% agreed their skin felt deeply hydrated

✓ 83% agreed their skin texture had improved


The Sleep Cheat Night Cream

✓ 91% agreed their skin felt deeply hydrated

✓ 83% agreed their skin texture had improved

Why does your skin change after pregnancy?

During pregnancy, levels of oestrogen and progesterone are higher than usual, increasing hydration, elasticity and circulation and often creating the well-known 'pregnancy glow'. After delivery, hormone levels drop quickly and sharply.

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Postpartum Skincare: A Dermatologist’s Guide to Caring for your Skin After Birth

Postpartum Skincare: A Dermatologist’s Guide to Caring for your Skin After Birth

Postpartum Skincare: A Dermatologist’s Guide to Caring for your Skin After Birth Written by Professor Caitriona Ryan, Consultant Dermatologist

Postpartum skincare explained by dermatologist Prof Caitriona Ryan, with gentle advice on hormonal skin changes, barrier repair and caring for skin after birth.