Our Ingredients
Learn about the ingredients we work with.
Our hair and skin treatments are completely personalised to each patient. We consider each patients skin concerns, goals and wishes to formulate each and every treatment. This personalisation continues as your progress throughout your treatment to continue to meet your needs and how your skin responds. These are some of the ingredients we work with in our personalised skin treatments.
Ivermectin
Ivermectin works by killing Demodex, the microscopic mites found in greater numbers on skin affected by rosacea, and by calming the inflammation around them. This settles the papules and pustules of p...
Metronidazole
Metronidazole settles the inflamed papules and pustules of rosacea, and as those spots clear the redness around them fades with them. It is an antibiotic, although in rosacea the benefit is thought to...
Tranexamic Acid
Tranexamic acid works by blocking plasmin, an enzyme that ultraviolet light switches on in the skin. Plasmin carries the message that tells pigment cells to produce more melanin, so blocking it stops ...
Caffeine
Caffeine is a stimulant found naturally in coffee and tea. Applied to the scalp, it acts directly on the hair follicle. It is one of the few non-prescription hair ingredients with genuine research beh...
Melatonin
Most hair loss treatments work on hormones or on blood flow. Melatonin works differently. Whilst it is better known as the hormone that sets your sleep cycle, hair follicles also carry Melatonin recep...
Tretinoin
Tretinoin works by binding to receptors in your skin cells, which speeds up cell turnover and stimulates collagen production. In the UK, it is available by prescription only. This is because it is a p...
Hydroquinone
Hydroquinone works by slowing tyrosinase, the enzyme that drives melanin production. This lets existing excess pigment fade faster than the skin replaces it, so dark patches lighten and your overall t...
Arbutin
Arbutin is a naturally occurring compound found in plants such as bearberry, blueberry and cranberry. It suppresses excess pigment production and is a gentle alternative to hydroquinone. Arbutin is av...
Azelaic Acid
Azelaic acid is a dicarboxylic acid found naturally in grains such as barley, wheat and rye, used on the skin to treat acne, rosacea and pigmentation. Few actives treat all three at once. Fewer still ...
Niacinamide
We use Niacinamide in custom prescription strength creams and gels for acne, pores, dark spots and ageing skin. It is a form of vitamin B3 that strengthens the skin barrier, slows the transfer of pigm...
Clindamycin
Clindamycin is a powerful antibiotic that can be used as a cream on the skin to treat acne. It mainly works by killing the acne causing bacteria. It binds to the bacterial ribosome hence preventing pr...
Spironolactone
Spironolactone is a prescription medicine that blocks androgen hormones, which makes it a useful treatment for hormonal acne and pattern hair loss. It started life in the 1950s as a tablet for high bl...
Hydrocortisone
Hydrocortisone steroid cream is available from pharmacies in the UK to treat various skin conditions. It works by suppressing inflammation and can help with eczema, psoriasis and dermatitis. Hydrocort...
Minoxidil
Minoxidil has been used to treat hair loss for nearly forty years. Doctors first developed it as a tablet for high blood pressure. Patients taking it began to grow extra hair, and that side effect bec...
Finasteride
Finasteride works by inhibiting the conversion of testosterone to dihydrotestosterone (DHT), which plays a key role in hair loss. As such, it is particularly useful in androgenetic alopecia (male and ...
Dutasteride
Dutasteride is a prescription-only medicine that treats androgenetic hair loss (male and female pattern baldness) by blocking both type I and type II 5-alpha reductase, the enzyme that converts testos...