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Editorial

Why this exists. What you'll get from it.

The studies that matter. The regulation that's changing. The claims that don't survive a primary source, for working clinicians.

27 April 2026·1 min read

By Bernadette Tobin RN, MSc

There is too much aesthetics content. Most of it is wrong, repeated, or sponsored. None of it is on your side.

If you are in clinical practice, you do not have time to triage it. You need three things, and you need them short:

  • The studies that actually move the field.
  • The regulation you will need to act on.
  • The claims that do not survive a primary source.

Concise. Referenced. Short enough to read between consultations. That is what the Journal is for.

What lands here

Three pieces a week. Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday. Each drawn from one of five categories:

  • Ingredient science, retinoids, peptides, exosomes, polynucleotides.
  • Treatments, lasers, injectables, microneedling, devices.
  • Regulation, JCCP, MHRA, FDA, EMA, the UK licensing scheme.
  • Studies worth reading, peer-reviewed papers, summarised in plain English.
  • Myths, quietly corrected, claims that don't survive primary sources.

Bernadette

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