For thousands of years, Ayurveda has approached beauty as part of a larger system of balance—one that considers the skin not in isolation, but in relationship to the body, environment, lifestyle, and individual constitution. Today, modern biotechnology is beginning to give us new ways to investigate some of the botanical ingredients that have been used in Ayurvedic traditions for centuries. This does not mean that modern science has “proven” every Ayurvedic claim. It does, ho