5 Tips for Helping Preserve a Visibly Healthy Skin Barrier

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If you’ve been seeing more about the “skin barrier” popping up over the past year in beauty articles and social media, it’s because it’s an important part of maintaining visibly healthy skin. It’s not just a trendy skin care phrase or something for dermatologists to reference.

This outer layer of skin, the stratum corneum, is your protective shield from things that can damage the skin, like UV rays and environmental pollutants. The skin barrier also helps your skin maintain proper moisture levels and prevent water loss. So, let’s dive into how you can keep this essential layer visibly healthy, supple, and smooth.

 Moisturize: Face Cream with Hyaluronic Acid and Glycerin

One of the best ways to protect the skin barrier is to use a great face moisturizer that increases hydration. Ingredients that attract water to the skin, like hyaluronic acid and glycerin, deliver hydration and help the skin maintain moisture. Look for a nourishing, fragrance-free, hydrating cream that moisturizes and strengthens the skin barrier by locking in water and nutrients. Be sure to also apply sunscreen with SPF during the day as well. 

Hydrating Cream

Cleanse: Hydrating, Gentle Cleanser

To keep your skin barrier intact, you don’t want to strip the skin of its essential moisture or throw it off balance. This is why choosing a gentle cleanser with carefully selected ingredients is important. Consider using a purifying cleanser that gently removes makeup, SPF, and buildup in one easy step. A hydrating milky cleanser with antioxidants like squalane and barley beta glucan is ideal for preventing moisture loss.

Serums: Epidermal Growth Factor (EGF) From Plants

Growth factors from plants, such as barley, are excellent for the skin for a variety of reasons. They help rejuvenate the look of the skin, help it hold moisture, and support the skin barrier overall. To help reinforce the skin’s protective barrier, look for a plant-based EGF serum for the face and a concentrated fine line eye serum, too (featuring hyaluronic acid and other skin-plumping ingredients). Plant growth factor serums for all skin types support the skin barrier and much more.

Fine Line Eye Serum

Hand Care: Ceramides in a Hand Serum

Essentially, a visibly healthy skin barrier helps keep harmful elements out and moisture in. If your hands are prone to dryness or cracks, especially if they’re exposed to the elements and frequent hand-washing, treat them to a silky hand serum to keep them looking smooth and visibly healthy. Ceramides help restore the skin barrier and build a protective barrier to help prevent water loss.

What to Avoid

Skin care products with potentially harsh ingredients, exfoliants with abrasive ingredients, and hot showers can all cause damage to the skin barrier. When you do exfoliate, be sure to use a gentle product that helps the skin maintain its natural moisture barrier. Sunflower oil, for example, is rich in linoleic acid—an essential fatty acid that helps prevent trans-epidermal water loss.

About BIOEFFECT 


Embrace innovative Icelandic skin care products from BIOEFFECT. The clean beauty brand uses minimal, pure ingredients while harnessing the power of nature and biotechnology to help you maintain visibly healthy-looking skin. Plant-based Epidermal Growth Factor (EGF) from barley plants is BIOEFFECT’s powerful signature ingredient formulated to help address visible signs of aging skin, including fine lines, wrinkles, uneven tone and texture, and other common concerns. Barley EGF, pure Icelandic water, hyaluronic acid, and a range of effective key ingredients are included in BIOEFFECT’s collection of products. Give your skin the glow-up you seek with everything from BIOEFFECT’s award-winning serums to moisturizers, cleansers, and hydrogel mask options. Whether you need a fine line eye serum or a luxurious face cream, BIOEFFECT has your skin care routine covered.

 Support your skin barrier with pure, effective skin care products from BIOEFFECT at https://www.bioeffect.com/

Location: 450 Lexington Ave, New York, NY 10017, USA

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