Where description stops and assessment begins
The boundary of this publication, stated once and kept to. When to see a pharmacist or a GP, what an occupational skin problem changes, how to read a claim, and what we refuse to do.
When to stop reading and see a pharmacist or a GP
A publication about skin physiology has a hard boundary. This article marks it, states what is on the other side, and explains how to get across it efficiently.
Limits · Referral · 9 minOccupational skin for people who work outdoors and in water
If your hands are cracking because of your job, that is a workplace health matter with duties attached, not a personal misfortune to be managed with hand cream.
Limits · Work · 10 minReading skin claims critically, including ours
A method for assessing what you are told about skin, applied to marketing, to social media, to research summaries and to this publication.
Limits · Method · 9 minWhat this publication will not do, and why that is the point
The refusals are the editorial position. Set out in full, so that anyone can check whether we keep to them.
Limits · Standards · 9 minThis page contains no commercial links. There is no advertiser, no sponsor, no affiliate arrangement and no product placement anywhere in it. We name no brand and no product, here or anywhere else on this site, and we describe ingredient classes only by what they do. Published by Northbank Media. Our funding is set out in full on the about page.
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