The Trending Ingredients Needed for the Best Skin with Dr Ash Soni

In this feature, we look at the future of skincare with Dr Ash Soni, a leading skincare expert who will reveal the trending ingredients that will help you achieve your best skin yet.

Skincare trends come and go, but there are a few new skincare strategies we should be paying attention to. There are few better to discuss this with than Dr Ash Soni, a plastic surgeon and leading skincare expert, who below will reveal the trends that will actually change your skin for good:

Regenerative Ingredients
Used together, a handful of ingredients can actually regenerate your skin. We want our skin to constantly renew its cells, but this slows down as we get older. The unwanted impact of this is an excess of dead skin cells, which can cause the skin to look tired, dull, and lined. So, boosting your skin’s natural regeneration process can give you a fresh glow.

Specific skincare ingredients can help improve the skin’s regenerative process, boost natural cell turnover, and get rid of built-up dead skin cells. First, antioxidants like vitamin C shield against skin damage and improve your skin’s quality and health.

Niacinamide protects the skin barrier while hydrating ingredients such as ceramides improve the quality of every layer of your skin. Retinol increases cell turnover, which improves your skin’s overall quality.

Finally, sunscreen is non-negotiable – look for a hybrid SPF like AlumierMD’s Sheer Hydration, which doesn’t just protect you from the sun but also from other forms of environmental damage like pollution and free radical damage.

Together, these ingredients will improve your skin’s regeneration, boosting skin quality, elasticity, and collagen, which will help with long-term ageing.

Personalised Skincare
Everything should be tailored to your skin type and needs. I think it’s getting harder to navigate the skincare shelves. There are so many products and brands that it’s confusing to work out what you need to put on your skin.

I recommend opting for skincare backed by science. Research-backed products go hand in hand with bespoke skincare.

As we move away from homogenised skincare, the influence of TikTok skin hacks is declining. While there are some harmless videos, like those encouraging lymphatic drainage, some can be really dangerous—and I think people are now starting to realise that.

I’ve seen videos where influencers are telling their followers to put their own faeces on their faces, which was shocking to me, given how highly unsanitary and dangerous this practice is. There was a trend advocating the benefits of potato starch and peel, which has no data behind this practice.

Our skin quality evolves as we go through life, as do our needs. Women, in particular, will experience many changes to their skin as hormones shift. Your skin, when pregnant or breastfeeding, will be completely different from your needs as you enter perimenopause. We need to adapt to each life stage, and a skincare expert can help you through that journey.

Retinol for Under Eyes
Using retinol for the eye area is a massive new skincare trend. There aren’t many people who don’t have an issue with their under eyes, whether it’s dark circles, puffiness, looking tired or wrinkles. From the age of 20, we all lose 1% of collagen a year.

As women go into perimenopause, they lose another 30% of their collagen within the next five years. This is why women’s facial ageing is faster than men’s, although eventually, we catch up to each other.

Retinol can irritate the sensitive skin under our eyes, but the right product, used properly, can be really effective. Look for microencapsulated retinol, like AlumierMD’s Retinol Eye Gel, which is my favourite.

The encapsulation is almost like a bubble wrap, which acts as a protective layer around the retinol. So when it gets released into the skin, it’s a slow and delayed release, which means that it minimises side effects.

About AlumierMD
The award-winning brand features specialised ingredients formulated at clinically validated percentages to deliver visibly transformative results on all skin types, tones, and conditions.

Their products can be purchased following a skincare consultation with a licensed and qualified medical or skincare professional or a limited range via the new direct, Connect to Buy platform.

Purchasing medical-grade skincare under the professional care of an AlumierMD skincare expert ensures fast and long-lasting results with hyper-customised skincare routines built based on the patient’s aesthetic aspirations.

You can learn more about AlumierMD on their website, www.alumiermd.co.uk.