The Estée Lauder Companies’ research team has been busy proving a new connection between everyday sugar consumption and skin aging. Now, this discovery is set to impact the conglomerate’s new product pipeline and marketing initiatives on existing products. “[We discovered] major cellular impact, right on the skin cells [after less than two weeks of sugar exposure],” Claude Saliou, Estée Lauder Companies SVP of advanced technologies, global clinical and consumer sciences, told Glossy. “It was quite surprising to see, actually, how profound and quick those changes were happening.” Published last week in the “International Journal of Molecular Sciences,” ELC’s newest peer-reviewed study documents a new connection between cellular exposure to fructose, an everyday sugar common in most American diets, and the body’s internal responses that age the skin, like inflammation, slowed cellular repair and the development of senescent cells, known among savvy skin-care shoppers as “zombie cells.”Continue reading this article on glossy.co. Sign up for Glossy newsletters to get the latest on the business of beauty, fashion and pop culture.
