Anjali Mahto

The Skincare Bible: Your No-Nonsense Guide to Great Skin, published by Penguin Life in 2018, sets out to answer the questions Anjali Mahto says patients put to her every day in clinic. She is a consultant dermatologist trained in the United Kingdom, holds a first degree in pharmacology alongside her medical qualification, speaks for the British Skin Foundation and serves on the governing committee of the British Cosmetic Dermatology Group. Her commercial interest in the subject is direct and worth stating: she founded and runs Self London, a private Harley Street clinic that sells laser treatment, injectables and the other cosmetic procedures the book weighs up. Her clinical work centres on acne and acne scarring, which she has lived with herself, along with rosacea, mole checks and skin ageing.