What is your skin’s moisture barrier?
• Stay healthy on the inside. Keeping your skin healthy is just as much about what you put inside your body as what happens to the outside. Eat a balanced diet rich in fruits and vegetables, exercise regularly, and drink plenty of water. • Protect your skin from sun damage. Sunburns and other damage caused by harmful UV rays can dry out skin and reduce its ability to attract and retain moisture. Regular use of sunscreen and other skin care products with SPF will help keep your moisture barrier healthy. • Keep skin clean. Experts recommend showering 5–10 minutes daily in warm – not hot – water with a gentle cleanser. We recommend one of our Luxury Glycerin Bath Bars or Sun Valley® , Alloy® , or Renew® Body Washes . Pat skin dry with a towel and follow up with lotion to lock in moisture. • Moisturise daily with Renew Lotion . Especially in dry winter conditions, providing proper moisture to skin is key to a healthy moisture barrier. In clinical studies, Renew helped restore and strengthen the skin’s protective moisture barrier – even on severely dry skin! In just 24 hours, Renew restored the skin’s moisture barrier significantly better than the leading lotion, Eucerin® 2 . And after two weeks, Renew improved skin hydration 10 times better than Eucerin!
Your moisture barrier is the top layer of your skin and is formed by tough
skin cells called corneocytes. Your moisture barrier literally helps keep you alive. Without it, the water inside your body would escape and evaporate, leaving you completely dehydrated. Plus, your skin barrier is slightly acidic to create a buffer against harmful bacteria, viruses, and fungi that could damage your skin and lead to other infections. 1 This acidity level is often referred to as your skin’s pH.
Is your skin working for you or against you?
How can you strengthen your skin’s moisture barrier? The best way to strengthen your skin’s
moisture barrier is to keep yourself healthy. If you notice your skin becoming dry, flaky, or irritated, try these steps to improve the health of your skin.
How does a weak moisture barrier affect your overall health?
Put simply, the barrier keeps good stuff in and bad stuff out. A healthy moisture barrier reduces the number of bacteria that can enter your body. When essential water and electrolytes go missing, your skin becomes dry and cracks, and pathogens can more easily pass through your skin to wreak havoc on other parts of your body:
Renew your commitment to healthy skin. As the largest organ of your body, your skin plays an important role in keeping you healthy and preventing undue stress on your immune system – and it’s all made possible because of your skin’s moisture barrier.
1 Rebecca Joy Stanborough, “What to Know About Your Skin Barrier and How to Protect It,” Healthline, September 16, 2020. 2 Product names are registered trademarks of their respective owners.
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