As people age, the microbiome of human skin changes through processes of selection due both to external and intrinsic factors. While human lifespan is finite determined by the inevitable decay of human cellular and genomic structures, the lifespan and aging of the microbiome is more ecological in nature, driven by selective pressures both connected and unconnected to human's own aging.Through the manipulation of the microbiome, using corollaries of processes used in ecosystem restoration, this invention includes ways, compositions and formulations to restore the microbiome of the skin allowing the skin to be in a more youthful and/or native state and prevent or reverse some of the undesirable appearances of aging. The invention described herein restores a putative ancestral microbiome function and thus protects the skin from damage caused by the UV rays present in sunshine.
