Cleaning can reduce the biodiversity of the skin microbiome and “disturb” it, new research has revealed.
In addition to this, staying indoors even just for 45 minutes afterwards can further reduce the skin’s biodiversity.
The participants in the study had their skin “cleaned”, then their biodiversity was measured. One group stayed indoors and this group saw a decrease in biodiversity.
The authors note that the act of cleaning is “common to modern behaviour”, and showed how it damages the skin microbiome.
This study starts to delve into the question of what is causing the catastrophic biodiversity loss on the skin microbiome, and what we can do about it.
If the Skin Microbiome is important for our overall health, are we looking after it as we should?
