Ingredients in Skin Moisturizers

Dry skin is produced by 2 factors. One is the damage to the skin’s defensive barrier which produces excessive water loss through the skin. The other is an important diminution in the proportion of the skin’s water-holding sugar and protein molecules, the intricate proteoglycans and glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) molecules.

Many skin moisturizers and emollient products offered by the major skin care companies delay the healing of irritated and flawed skin and make the situation worse by inhibiting natural skin repair. New computer instruments have shown that several popular moisturizers increase skin damage in ways similar to skin irritants. Nor are skin barrier products an answer, such as those containing petrolatum and lanolin.

What our skin needs is to shield its surface and to heal the skin from the inside out, by putting the skin in a situation in which innate skin repair can happen.

Most if not all the famous moisturizers and emollients currently offered by the main skin care brands contain high concentrations of detergents and detergent-like chemicals, ignoring many years of sound evidence that such detergents degrade the skin’s natural defensive function and damage the skin. Also, several of the dyes and optical diffusers used to give the look of healthy skin are damaging to skin.

Dry Skin Treated Naturally

Lipids and fats in the skin provide the epidermal defense to transcutaneous water loss. These lipids in the upper skin area called the stratum corneum are arranged in layers called lamellae. The lower skin layers contain more typical fats such as triglycerides and phospholipids while the upper layers have more ceramides, cholesterol and free fatty acids.

Waxes and oils seal the skin’s surface and avoid exaggerated water loss. Cosmetic moisturizers eliminate the skin’s defensive barrier and moisturize (wet) the skin proteins but have the long-term effect of damaging the skin.

A skin-care product is only as good as what it contains and how those ingredients can help your skin function better. In fact, moisturizers (or any skin-care product claiming to have an effect on skin repair, wrinkles or sagging skin) must absolutely contain an elegant mix of antioxidants, cell-communicating components, and intercellular elements as they help skin keep a normal level of hydration, build collagen and avoid cellular damage.

Not the famous dry skin products that have been in the market since the 1920′s, when the cosmetic industry started to sell oil/water/detergent products for moisturizing instead of the herbal oils that had been used for thousands of years. This was similar to the fallacious campaigns, we may all remember, that aimed to stop women from breast feeding their babies and promoted their replacement with artificial infant formulas sold for profit.

A new skin care product is our latest answer to erase scars and cure all kind of skin ailments. Made with biological ingredients, it guarantees no allergic responses and no negative side effects.

- Nancy Hall