We’re very much into looking after our skin, but is perfume ageing our skin much faster than it should? 

The fragrances we love to wear not only give us pleasure, hopefully those around us feel the same.

But if it is ageing to our skin can we stop that damage, or will we have to ditch scent for good?

The good news is that, no, we don’t have to stop wearing perfume. The bad news is that, yes, it can be very ageing on skin and here’s why.

Perfume, fragrance, scent, whatever you choose to call it is essentially perfume oil concentrate set in a base of alcohol to preserve it. As you would expect, we don’t use alcohol in beauty as it is drying, yet we have no problem spritzing it on our necks and decolleté with fragrance?

That’s only reason one, the second is worse news for your chest rather than your neck, this is why.

Because of the angle of our decolleté it receives the full blast of UV exposure (even in Winter), our necks are a little more protected being shadowed by our heads.

Spritzed with scent and open to UV rays the chest area will age prematurely, showing age spots and pigmentation long before it should.

Treatments like laser and products that contain anti-pigmentation or lightening ingredients can have an erasing effect. But it’s better not to have this issue too early in life, so rather than spritzing with scent, layer up on sunscreen daily.

So, what is the solution, how can we wear fragrance without the perfume ageing our skin?

Simple, you break the habit straightaway of wearing scent on your neck and chest. If you spritz wrists you are safe if the skin is not exposed. 

Other than that spritz collars and clothes, and if your hair at the back of your head reaches down far enough lift it up and spray beneath. You’ll soon get used to it and still smell as sweet!

Evoke