Skin Diagnosis

In addition to our personal experiences, our lifestyle habits and our environment play a crucial role in determining our skin type, thus enabling a personalised skincare routine. Typology's skin diagnosis is based on all these criteria to establish different skin types. The DP(+) profile is among them. But what exactly does this mean?

Traditionally, four main skin categories are recognised: dry skin, combination skin, oily skin and normal skin, defined by the activity of the sebaceous glands responsible for sebum production. However, skin is more complex than generally believed. At Typology, by utilising a more advanced scientific methodology, we have identified not four but twenty-four distinct skin typologies, and the DE(.) profile is one of them. How can this skin type be defined? Find more information on the DE(.) skin typology in this article.

The activity of the sebaceous glands is not the only criterion to consider when defining a skin type. Exposure to oxidising factors and the degree of cutaneous ageing are other criteria we have decided to take into account in order to establish our 24 skin typologies. But then, what characterises DE(-) skin? Continue reading to find out.

AE(-), DP(.), PE(+), VP(-), AP(.)... these are far from the terms used to define "traditional" skin types: oily skin, normal skin, combination skin, and dry skin. At Typology, we have identified 24 different skin profiles, not just 4, based on a more advanced scientific methodology. But what exactly does the term AP(.) mean?

A skin type is not defined solely by its sebum secretion. Other factors must be taken into account to optimise one’s skincare routine. Based on this observation, we have identified 24 skin typologies, including the DE(+) profile. But what lies behind these initials? Let us discover it together in this article.