| Some of the most promising new | | | | and cream cleansers, which deposit a |
| ingredients are aiming, in effect, to | | | | thin protective layer of fatty acids on |
| help the skin help itself. While many | | | | the skin's surface; recently |
| moisturizing creams are essentially | | | | reformulated anti-aging creams available |
| Band-Aids - protecting skin so that it | | | | for the face, building upon further |
| can start to recover - some of the best | | | | research from proprietary studies, |
| skin are products are new lipid-based | | | | contains the same ratio of lipids |
| products and go one step farther, | | | | naturally found in the skin to help |
| actually accelerating the skin's own | | | | rebuild the skin's barrier. |
| repair process. For that reason, | | | | In studies, if you put a |
| figuring out how to maintain an optimal | | | | naturally-formulated mixture on the skin |
| level of lipids - the fatty acids, | | | | for as little as two weeks, then damage |
| ceramides, and cholesterol that form a | | | | the skin, it will actually heal faster |
| cushy matrix around skin cells and | | | | than skin treated oil based products. |
| together act as a barrier - has been a | | | | Best skin care products contain no |
| recent goal of cosmetics scientists. | | | | petroleum-based derivatives. |
| In 2002, researchers in California | | | | Perfecting this ability to support the |
| reported that they had made this | | | | skin's own function is currently the |
| breakthrough. Their study demonstrated | | | | great wet hope for researchers who work |
| that a cream containing ceramides | | | | in the field. For the best |
| provided a substantial benefit to the | | | | reconstitution of the skin's barrier, |
| chronically dry, irritated skin of | | | | nothing does as good a job as the skin |
| people with eczema, who suffer from an | | | | can do for itself, so the most effective |
| impaired skin barrier. Within three | | | | moisturizing ingredients attempt to |
| weeks of applying best skin care | | | | mimic how the skin works. |
| products (lipid-based creams), water | | | | Ultimately, the future of moisturizers |
| loss slowed and other measures of | | | | may lie way back in our pasts. |
| hydration also improved. The anti-aging | | | | Scientists are now working on |
| products found at contain elements | | | | synthetically manufacturing vernix, the |
| targeted and delivered to protect | | | | extremely hydrating, protective white |
| against transdermal water loss while | | | | coating that covers newborn babies - in |
| increasing skin lipid barrier functions. | | | | other words, recreating the very first |
| Currently, best skin care product makers | | | | moisturizer ever to touch our skin. |
| are scrambling to introduce day and | | | | Please share the content of these |
| night creams that contain fatty acids, | | | | articles with your friends, family and |
| ceramides, and cholesterol, designed to | | | | colleagues. Reprint rights granted. |
| be used after skin-type specific washes | | | | |