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Budding beauty

Skin is a visual certificate of health,” said American psychologist Nancy Etcoff in her 1999 book Survival of the Prettiest, an investigation into the science of beauty. It's a sentiment German dermatologist Dr Patricia Ogilvie lives and works by, the international authority on aesthetic medicine joining Etcoff and 16 other internationally renowned researchers as part of Dior Science's Board of Reverse Aging.

Together, this powerhouse of experts has identified 12 key hallmarks of ageing, one of them, the mechanism known as cellular senescence – a process whereby a cell stops dividing and lingers, potentially harming neighbouring normal cells. An accumulation of

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