Sol suddenly developed vitiligo at a time of vital and professional change. At first she didn’t like it at all, but over time she realized that she helped him change the way she looked, almost always focused on others. He says her skin was what saved him from ignoring himself. Curiously, her children love her skin, they see it as if it were a sky where the clouds are her stains and they play to find figures… do you see the heart?
Sol, in some way, did magic, because magic is the art of perception, and it is not made to be believed, it is made to be created, and she learned to change her gaze and perceive herself better. The only difference between a mountain and a sacred mountain is a story, and it is evident that Sol learned to tell herself a better story, about her skin, but also about herself.
Sol is part of an initiative by the ISDIN dermocosmetic laboratory that aims to help people tell better stories about what happens to them. To this end, ISDIN has published the book Love your skin, full of stories like that of Sol, who lived his own love story, or that of Manuel, who tells how for a moment he stopped being him due to acne. Real stories of people who at some point have had a complicated relationship with his skin, but who have known how to transform that relationship through love.
In addition to Sol’s testimony, the book also emphasizes the famous exposome, the seven factors related to our environment that affect the health of our skin. And although we touch the skin, if we are honest, we cannot say that we have the skin that touches us, since, for example, it has been proven that 80% of the signs of aging are related to unprotected sun exposure. The health of our skin is closely related to our exposure to solar radiation, but also to the other six factors that make up the exposome: tobacco, high temperatures, diet, stress, rest and pollution. Furthermore, given that we live in an increasingly digital environment, where technology and social networks are not only part of our lives, but shape them, our digital well-being also appears as a determining factor.
But to take care of the skin we also have to take into account other internal and social aspects. Factors such as self-esteem, acceptance, self-care, attitude, habits, activity and even gratitude, grouped under the term innersoma. Furthermore, the skin is the most social organ, and one of the worst side effects of skin diseases is the gaze of others, so another objective of the book is that together we build wings with our gaze, not cages, and no one ever again prefer to stay locked up at home for fear of those looks.
With this book, ISDIN wants to go one step further and help people not only take care of their skin, but also love it. And it is inherent to human beings to take care of what they love.
