Understanding Skin Barrier Repair
Understanding Skin Barrier Repair – When you use skin care products to hydrate, moisturize, or exfoliate to make your skin look younger and healthier, you’re applying all those serums and creams to the outermost layer of the skin: the skin barrier. According to Healthline, human skin is made up of many layers, each performing different functions to protect the body. The stratum corneum is the outer layer of the skin and is made of ‘hard skin cells’ called corneocytes, linked together by lipids containing ‘cholesterol, fatty acids and ceramides’. Every skin cell has ‘natural moisturizers’, and now it makes sense …