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Maria Rylott-Byrd The Corneotherapy Consultant, Banbury (2026)

23/12/2025

Fact: Chemical peels compromise the skin’s natural defence system.

They disrupt the finely balanced relationship between the Stratum Corneum, Acid Mantle and Microbiome. The very structure responsible for protection, regulation and long-term skin health.

Corneotherapists don’t treat skin by breaking it down.
We support it. Working with its physiological intelligence rather than overriding it.

When the barrier is respected, results aren’t just visible. They’re sustainable.

The reality is this: skin, given the right support, can achieve more than most treatments ever promise.

If you’re starting to question how the industry truly cares for skin, you’ve found your people.

It’s time to rethink skin.

Maria ✨

22/12/2025

Dehydration is not simply a water problem. It’s a retention problem.

If dehydration were just a lack of water, generic water-based solutions alone would resolve the issue.

We know water is essential for normal skin function, especially within the stratum corneum. But healthy hydration is not maintained by how much water you apply to the surface.

It’s maintained by functioning internal systems.

In healthy skin, hydration is regulated by two primary components:

💧 Natural Moisturising Factor (NMF): Hygroscopic components inside corneocytes that bind and hold onto water tightly.
🛡️ Intercellular Lipids: Precisely organised lamellar bilayers that seal the gaps between cells to limit transepidermal water loss (TEWL).

When either system is compromised, the ‘bucket’ becomes leaky and water escapes too readily.

And that matters. Adequate water content is essential for proper corneocyte maturation, normal enzymatic activity and controlled, functional desquamation.

When TEWL increases, the enzymes responsible for desquamation don’t function optimally. The result isn’t just ‘parched’ skin, it’s flaky, rough, functionally underperforming skin.

👉 This is where most standard treatments go wrong.

Aggressive exfoliation to ‘fix’ flaky symptoms may improve texture temporarily, but it’s not getting to the root cause.

Constantly layering water-heavy topicals without barrier repair doesn’t solve it either. If hydration only exists while the product is damp on the skin, the problem hasn’t been treated, it’s been masked.

Dehydration is a functional disorder. It requires intelligent, barrier-respecting care that restores the skin’s ability to retain and self-regulate water.

That’s Skin Science. That’s Corneotherapy!

Maria ✨

21/12/2025

If your ‘advanced’ skin treatments compromise the barrier, it’s time to STOP and reassess your clinical reasoning.

It’s time to challenge what the industry has normalised:

• aggressive intervention
• excessive product layering
• inflammation disguised as efficacy

Skin does not require domination.
It requires biological intelligence.

Continuous learning.
Independent thinking.

That is expertise.
That is Corneotherapy.

Tell me, what informs your clinical decisions…reaction or reason?

Maria ✨

19/12/2025

If you’re not preserving the epidermis, you might want to rethink your version of skin health.

You may have been taught that the Stratum Corneum is dead. That’s an oversimplification.

As Kligman stated, it is “very much alive”.

Corneocytes are not superfluous.
They are purpose-built armour.
Aneucleated.
Cornified.
Engineered for protection.

Bound by lamellar lipids, they form an organised, adaptive barrier that regulates permeability, inflammation and defence.

Atop sits the hydrolipidic acid mantle that houses the skin’s microbiome.

Together, they give us the first three lines of cutaneous defence.

An ecosystem.
Interdependent.
Intelligent.

So the real question isn’t how should we remove it?
It’s, why are we so comfortable destroying it?

Destruction doesn’t strengthen skin. It weakens function, increases permeability, and drives inflammation. The industry then reframes this damage as ‘normal’.

If skin had a voice, it wouldn’t ask to be laid bare.
It would ask to be protected.

The Stratum Corneum is not the problem.
Thinking is.

Rethink the narrative with Corneotherapy!

Maria ✨

19/12/2025

If you’re not preserving the epidermis, you might want to rethink your version of skin health.

You may have been taught that the Stratum Corneum is dead. That’s an oversimplification.

As Kligman stated, it is “very much alive”.

Corneocytes are not superfluous.
They are purpose-built armour.
Aneucleated.
Cornified.
Engineered for protection.

Bound by lamellar lipids, they form an organised, adaptive barrier that regulates permeability, inflammation and defence.

Atop sits the hydrolipidic acid mantle that houses the skin’s microbiome.

Together, they give us the first three lines of cutaneous defence.

An ecosystem.
Interdependent.
Intelligent.

So the real question isn’t how should we remove it?
It’s, why are we so comfortable destroying it?

Destruction doesn’t strengthen skin. It weakens function, increases permeability, and drives inflammation. The industry then reframes this damage as ‘normal’.

If skin had a voice, it wouldn’t ask to be laid bare.
It would ask to be protected.

The Stratum Corneum is not the problem.
Thinking is.

Rethink the narrative with Corneotherapy!

Maria ✨

18/12/2025

FACT: Visible symptoms are not the issue. They are the consequence of dysfunction beneath the surface.

Yet, many clinical decisions are still driven by what presents visually, without fully understanding why the skin is behaving that way.

That’s not advanced practice. That’s reactive treatment dressed up as expertise.

When consultation and analysis are skipped, rushed or reduced to a tick-box exercise, treatment becomes protocol-led, contradictory and often responsible for the very conditions it claims to correct.

Corneotherapy does not start with products or modalities. It starts with function.

When you begin to consider the skin you cannot see, you stop thinking one-dimensionally and start thinking functionally.

Skin is not an appendage.

It is an organ.

Learn it.
Understand it.
Respect it.

Maria 💪

16/12/2025

Welcome to my page and its new look!

I’m Maria Rylott-Byrd, The Corneotherapy Consultant™ and I wanted to properly re-introduce myself. My journey in this incredible industry spans over 35 years, however, over the last few years, I’ve found myself going left when the rest of the industry seems to be going right.

As a purist Corneotherapist, I’m completely committed to respecting skin physiology. Yes, I know the barrier is suddenly the ‘in thing’, but for me, this isn’t a trend, it’s my entire foundation.

I genuinely believe we have a shared responsibility to elevate the standards across the industry, but in particular in relation to skin health. But to do that, we have to be willing to reconsider our previously learned behaviours.

Right now, our model favours ingredient fads and aggressive quick fixes, which frequently overlook the skins primary defence system and compromises skin function.

In 2024, I stepped away from my clinic full-time to dedicate my time to working with professionals like you, Why? because I truly believe that excellence and evidence-based practice are non-negotiable. It’s time for us to anchor our practices in irrefutable science and feel completely confident in our approach.

In essence, I’m a corneotherapy advocate, mentor, educator and builder of communities, so welcome to my world and thankyou for being here.

Maria ✨

12/12/2025

It’s fantastic when your course is recognised for its credibility with HABIA endorsement, but even more rewarding when it truly resonates with the people who take it.

Thank you William Foley (Professional Beauty, Beauty Therapist of the Year 2025) for your lovely feedback.

Learning never ends and all the stand-out therapists consider knowledge to be an ongoing journey.

Up your game in the New Year by refreshing your knowledge or gaining fresh insights into the science of skin, whilst discovering why corneotherapy makes perfect sense for lasting skin health!

Comment ‘learning’ and I’ll send you the link.

Maria ✨

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11/12/2025

If it’s powerful enough to dissolve make-up, just think of what it’s doing to skin.

Those micelles accumulate (especially when not washed off) and reactivate with water, leading to the wash-out effect. It might seem like a harmless action, but it really isn’t.

Maria ✨

04/12/2025

In 1928, two German dermatologists coined the term “acid mantle” and showed that the skin’s natural acidity is its primary defence against bacterial invasion. By the late 1930s their work had already linked alkaline pH shifts to pathological microbial overgrowth and impaired barrier function, while proving that the best therapeutic preparations leaned towards the acidic.

Today, we understand far more about pH. The acid mantle provides a slightly acidic environment that favours beneficial organisms. In return, those microbes reinforce immunity, compete with pathogens and actively contribute to surface acidification.

Disrupt that pH and this symbiosis collapses, commensals struggle, opportunists thrive and the whole ecosystem tips into dysbiosis.

To maintain a slightly acidic environment benefits acne, atopic dermatitis and ageing because it restores microbial homeostasis alongside barrier function.

The science has been clear for almost a hundred years, yet the industry is still hellbent on disrupting the defences that nature created.

The acid mantle and its pH level matter. They formulate the first line of defence and as such deserve to be respected.

The science was settled in 1928. When will the industry catch up?

Maria ✨

28/11/2025

A skin course that builds on your foundational knowledge from a Corneotherapists perspective, but useful for all skin therapist’s who care about skin health.

Head to the bio to change the way you think about skin forever.

Maria x

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