Can Your Skin Care Communicate With Your Brain?

Can Your Skin Care Communicate With Your Brain?

More beauty brands are zeroing in on skin care’s neural connection. This emerging category has been dubbed “neurocosmetics,” a concept rooted in the idea that the brain and skin are intrinsically linked. But can a topical product actually communicate with neural pathways? Neurologists and dermatologists tell us what neurocosmetic means and explain whether or not these products have an effect that goes more than skin deep.