Your Skin, When You Sleep

Billie eilish once sang: when we all fall asleep, where do we go? We now have answers, when it comes to our skin, at least

- Chelsea Tang

Silent gasps filled the room when Moe Shimazaki, manager of skincare development at Clé de Peau Beauté uttered the words, “It’s a misconception”. As it turns out, the old adage ‘sleeping it off’ may not ring fully true after all; at least not in skincare.

We’d been discussing “skin intelligence” with the Japanese luxury beauty brand at The St. Regis Kuala Lumpur. It’s a term coined by their team of researchers, which posits that the epidermal layer of our skin shares the same gene as the brain. That our skin, has the innate ability to protect itself against bad stimuli (for example, environmental pollutants and stress), and heal itself when it’s exposed to good ones (like effective skincare and a healthy lifestyle).

Which then begs the question: When is our skin at its most vulnerable?

It’s actually when we are asleep.