A precision probiotic that improves skin health
Designed to rebalance your skin microbiota and promote healthy skin.
Shop NowDesigned to rebalance your skin microbiota and promote healthy skin.
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Skin Calm is a precision probiotic developed specifically to improve skin health by rebalancing your gut and skin microbiome.
Discover NowEach capsule is bursting with 10 billion targeted probiotics with prebiotics and highly-absorbable microencapsulated zinc, that act on the causes of inflammation, irritation, and most common skin disorders – and keep your gut healthy too.
Did you know that 300 trillion microorganisms live on your skin and in your gut? Our gut microbiome communicates with our skin microbiome via the 'gut-skin axis'. If your gut microbiome is altered, it negatively affects your skin and can cause inflammation and bacteria responsible for conditions like acne and eczema. Probiotics are a natural and effective way to rebalance and restore your gut and skin microbiome.
trillion of bacteria live in our skin
Our skin is covered with trillions of bacteria.
Almost all of our body is covered in bacteria - actually, our bodies host more bacteria cells than human cells, a lot more! Bacteria are present in our gut, mouth, urinary tract, and our skin.
Skin microbiome is the term that scientists use to identify an ecosystem of thousands of microorganisms - bacteria, viruses, and fungi - living on our skin.
Among them, there are several strains of microbes (they are probiotics, indeed!) playing a crucial role in maintaining healthy skin and protecting it from infections against harmful microorganisms.
In other words, you can imagine your skin as a giant battlefield where huge arms of micro-monsters eat, reproduce themselves, and sometimes decide to fight against each other to colonise different territories.
Our skin has different layers: the corneum stratus is the one most populated by living bacteria. The probiotic strains living on our skin produce antimicrobial agents that help keep us healthy, and direct correct immune responses to fight infections.
Our skin is a marvellous world and scientists have just started to unveil it: however, they are unanimous in saying that our skin microbiome plays a crucial role in many skin disorders such as atopic dermatitis (also called eczema), acne, rosacea, and psoriasis.
The gut-skin axis explained.
Surprisingly, researchers have also discovered that our skin microbiome is directly connected to our gut microbiome [2]. For instance, did you know that changes in diet have been shown to not only impact the flora in our gut but also the bacteria on our skin? Also, skin disorders are not just associated with an altered skin microbiome, but quite often they correlate with an altered gut flora. The connection between our skin and gut microbiota - also known as the “skin-gut-axis” - describes the intimate relationship between the skin and the gut.
These two organs (we can consider our skin as a quite special organ) communicate mainly in two ways: directly or indirectly through our immune system.
The first case happens when the intestinal barrier is impaired and intestinal bacteria enter the bloodstream, accumulate in the skin, and disrupt the skin microbiome.
In the second case, an altered gut microbiota might negatively affect our immune system, which in turn creates a skin dysbiosis - namely an imbalance of our skin microbiota due to an increase of harmful bacteria. This uncontrolled immune response promotes the development of skin diseases, such as atopic dermatitis, psoriasis, acne vulgaris, dandruff and sometimes even more serious pathologies.
What are the typical skin conditions related to gut dysbiosis?
In short, an imbalance in our gut and in our skin microbiome can contribute to common skin disorders such as acne, psoriasis, atopic dermatitis (eczema) and rosacea.
There is a direct link between skin disorder and specific harmful bacteria, for example in numerous studies rosacea has been associated with an increased level of helicobacter pylori both in our gut and skin microbiome.
Atopic dermatitis is a common inflammatory skin disease characterised by xerosis, pruritus and eczema. It has been demonstrated that people with atopic dermatitis show an increased level of the pathogen Staphylococcus aureus in the affected skin (70% compared to 5% for healthy skin). Also, acne is caused by the proliferation of the pathogen P. acnes that obstructed the skin follicles. [3]
So, if you have one of these conditions and your skin creams are not working, start looking at your gut! Explore our Skin probiotics to learn more.
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For Skin Calm, we have isolated the specific probiotics strains to target skin and gut health, and packed them into high-impact probiotics that really work.
A live bacteria shown to reduce harmful bacteria causing skin disorders, especially...
Read moreA live bacteria shown to reduce harmful bacteria causing skin disorders, especially acne, rosacea, eczema and urticaria.
Clinical Study: Staphylococcus Aureus is a pathogen that can cause atopic dermatitis. In this double-blinded study, adults supplemented with LS01 for 16 weeks showed improvement of moderate/severe atopic dermatitis and a reduction of Staphylococcus Aureus in the skin and gut microbiome.
Drago L. et al. Effects of Lactobacillus salivarius LS01 (DSM 22775) treatment on adult atopic dermatitis: a randomized placebo-controlled study. Int J Immunopathol Pharmacol. 2011; 24(4):1037-48.
A live bacteria shown to reduce harmful bacteria causing skin disorders, especially...
Read moreA live bacteria shown to reduce harmful bacteria causing skin disorders, especially acne.
Clinical Study: Propionibacterium acnes is a pathogen that can cause acne by obstructing skin follicles. In this study, LP01 demonstrated a significant inhibitory capacity against the target pathogen P.acnes by reducing the interleukin-8 (IL-8) release.
In-vitro evaluation of the immunomodulatory properties of the bacterial strains. Lactobacillus acidophilus LA02 (DSM 21717), Lactobacillus plantarum LP01 (LMG P-21021) and Bifidobacterium breve BR03 (DSM 16604)
A live bacteria shown to reduce harmful bacteria causing skin disorders, especially...
Read moreA live bacteria shown to reduce harmful bacteria causing skin disorders, especially acne, rosacea and eczema.
Clinical Study: A dysbiotic microbiome caused by a small intestinal bacterial overgrowth and an innate immune system dysregulation may cause Rosacea. In this study, it has been demonstrated that after 8 weeks of low dose antibiotics and LS03 the patient showed strong reduction of rosacea.
Fortuna MC, Garelli V, Pranteda G, Romaniello F, Cardone M, Carlesimo M, Rossi A. A case of Scalp Rosacea treated with low dose doxycycline and probiotic therapy and literature review on therapeutic options. Dermatol Ther. 2016 Jul;29(4):249-51. doi: 10.1111/dth.12355. Epub 2016 Apr 17. PMID: 27087407.
A live bacteria shown to reduce harmful bacteria causing skin and gut...
Read moreA live bacteria shown to reduce harmful bacteria causing skin and gut disorders. BR03 is also well recognised in helping the digestive system and IBS.
Clinical study: Recent researches have shown that altered diversity and composition of the gut microbiota may be the causal factor in the occurrence of chronic urticaria. In this double-blinded study, adults supplemented with BR03 for 8 weeks demonstrated a significant reduction of urticaria symptoms.
Nettis E, Di Leo E, Pastore A, Distaso M, Zaza I, Vacca M, Macchia L, Vacca A. Probiotics and refractory chronic spontaneous urticaria. (Lactobacillus salivarius LS01 and Bifidobacterium breve BR03) in Eur Ann Allergy Clin Immunol. 2016 Sep;48(5):182-7. PMID: 27608474.
Skin Health
Billions of microorganisms will work their magic inside your body every day
As probiotics and prebiotics start to help gut health, your gut and skin microbiome start to populate with good bacteria. Many people feel results in as little as 48-72 hours due to localised benefits to their digestive health.
Zinc and probiotics ramp up their impact and you may feel more energetic and your skin will start to appear shinier and clearer, with fewer spots and marks. Behind the scenes, probiotics are working their magic to fight skin inflammation.
Precision probiotics have now colonised your skin microbiome. You will see symptoms associated with skin disorders reduced and your skin health improved. Probiotics have done the hard work, but you need a daily probiotic booster to keep your microbiome balanced and healthy.
Internal clinical trail performed on people affected by skin conditions
Reported a significant improvement to their skin health
Reported a reduction in symptoms for acne, eczema, rosacea or other skin conditions
Would recommend SKIN CALM to their friends and family
4 probiotic strains backed by over 100 scientific studies - chosen for the specific benefits they bring to skin health. Fortified with Sunactive® Zinc and prebiotics.
Our patented DRcaps® technology delivers on average 100% of the probiotic starting dose to your colon, and less probiotic loss in digestion means more probiotics to get to work in your gut. It also protects live bacteria from oxygen, moisture and heat.