The Skin Pharmacy can tailor products for customers as well as tend to a range of skin and hair care woes such as pigmentation, acne, itch, very dry skin and oily scalp.

After looking at the needs of a customer, ingredients are selected, weighed and mixed (above), to make products like face and body creams, shampoos, conditioners, cleansing oils and eye serums.

Examples of ingredients used include hyaluronic acid for anti-ageing, benzoyl peroxide to prevent pimples, and sodium PCA, an amino acid derivative, to keep skin moist.

The pharmacy can also modify its existing products such as add extra moisturisers to a sunscreen, or an essential oil or colour to a shampoo.

The pharmacy has come across customers who need help for anything ranging from stubborn spots on the face to itchy skin to scars from allergy breakouts on the feet.

Tailored products start with a service fee of $20, plus the cost of the ingredients used.

A 230g tub of basic moisturising body cream costs about $30. However, if expensive ingredients such as serums are used, the price tag can run into the hundreds.

This article was first published in Mind Your Body, The Straits Times.