Your skin – the largest organ of the human body hosts trillions of microorganisms. These microbes can be found all over the surface of the skin. Scientists can confirm that there are two types of microbiotas, the normal healthy kind, and the disease-causing kind. The healthy, good bacteria, or Commensal, are what promotes the skins immunity and encourages fighting the bad bacteria, or Pathogenic bacteria.
So many factors can contribute to your skin being compromised. Factors such as stress environmental pollution, poor eating habits, lack of sleep, harsh skin care products, sun exposure and even oral or topical antibiotics all can all diminish your skin microbiome, and even discourage your commensal microbiota from multiplying across your skins surface. This is commonly known as dysbiosis when your microbiome is disrupted. Inflammation, eczema, psoriasis, acne, rosacea, and even hives are all symptoms of a compromised or disturbed gut microbiome.
Probiotics, come alongside your Commensal, nourishing them, and helping with reversing the effects of a compromised gut microbiome. Belief in the power of probiotics and what they can do for your skin health and overall wellbeing is becoming more and more evident across the medical fraternity.
The Harvest Table have been adding probiotics to their products for a little while, an emerging innovation in skin care is adding these microscopic gut health giants to formulas and topical creams. The Harvest Table team opted for a different strategy. Catherine Clark, founder of The Harvest Table says this about Probiotics “Probiotics support the body’s natural defences, starting in the digestive tract by naturally restoring the balance of “good” beneficial bacteria in the gut. We use probiotics, and prebiotics in number of our products as they form the foundation of healing work in healing our bodies from the inside out.”
