What is a skin barrier function?

A healthy skin barrier will keep the skin hydrated by preventing and regulating water loss.  Known as TEWL (Trans Epidermal Water Loss) It protects against harmful substances. Once impaired the skin can become red and irritated, dry and flakey. You may break out in pimples and rashes and have more irritated skin.  Does this sound like you?

A strong and healthy skin barrier is crucial in achieving and maintaining nourished, glowing skin. Sealing in moisture and hydration, a healthy skin barrier can also reduce skin sensitivities. Learn how to support your skin’s barrier, helping your skin to look and feel its best.

What can cause this? external influences, genetic predispositions, and age. Moreover, the skin barrier can continue to weaken with age, this can be attributed to a loss of moisture within the skin cells and reduced hydration in the body over time. Born with 75% water content, this figure diminishes as you age, resulting in wrinkles, fine lines, and aged looking skin.

Also we can’t discount sun damage, smoking, poor diet, stress, allergens

How do you fix it? Using a mild and soothing cleanser.  Don’t exfoliate too vigorously or too often. Hydrate with serums and moisturizer with hyaluronic acid. HA holds its weight in moisture, so for an impaired barrier it needs to be fed hydration.

Vitamin B3 reduces inflammation and irritation in the skin while hydrating, stimulating collagen and cell renewal to help repair an impaired skin barrier function.

Once the barrier function is healthy it will start looking and feeling better.

We recommend Ultraderm Vitamin B3 / Intraceuticals Vit D3 /  Hydration Gel