The Best Barrier Repair Products
It takes seconds to damage your skin barrier and weeks to repair. Knowing what to do will save you time and money. When your skin barrier is compromised, it allows more irritants to penetrate the skin and increases moisture loss, leading to heightened sensitivity. Therefore, it’s imperative to get the skin barrier repaired quickly.
The moment your skin starts stinging feels irritated and uncomfortable, appears red, angry, and inflamed and the texture feels raised and uneven these are all signs your skin barrier is damaged. When your skin barrier is compromised it's important to know what to do. To help you understand what can damage the skin barrier, how you know if you have damaged your skin barrier, and my top tips on how to repair the skin barrier on your face this blog will help you → Expert Tips On How to Repair Your Skin Barrier.
Top 5 products for Skin barrier repair:
La Roche Posay Cicaplast Baume B5 Repairing Balm £18.90
For immediate relief, this is the first thing I want you to grab the moment your skin stings and becomes uncomfortable. This product is a bathroom SOS and will be your saviour. It's ultra repairing, instantly soothing, and immediately calms the skin. I like to use it as a mask overnight (I have been known to sit at my desk wearing it). I apply it to the areas where my skin feels irritated, and I recommend a thick layer over the area that feels damaged and compromised. The balm assists the skin in its repairing process whilst respecting the skin's fragility. The combination of prebiotics (the food to nourish and feed the good bacteria for it to flourish and push out the bad bacteria) Vitamin B5 and madecassoside all create a bandage effect to allow the skin to recover and prevent scarring.
La Roche Posay Toleriane Dermo-Cleanser £15.99
Cleansing a damaged skin barrier can be the most challenging step in your skincare routine and depending on the severity it may be easier to not cleanse your skin in the morning and try to gently cleanse just at nighttime. La Roche Posay Dermo Cleanse is one of the best gentle fragrance-free hydrating cleansing milks, you can cleanse the skin directly with your hands or use it on a reusable cotton pad. I recommend that you use your hands as this allows the skin to have the least amount of aggression to the skin. Dermo Cleanse will remove all your eye makeup and leave the skin feeling cleansed, soft, and supple.
SOS Serum SPF 50 Sun Cream £5.50
Protecting a damaged skin barrier is essential. If the skin barrier is compromised this means allergens can get into the skin and irritate the skin further. Tried and tested and so gentle SOS SPF50 is the perfect way to protect your skin gently and effectively. A broad spectrum, mineral-based sunscreen that will leave the skin full of moisture whilst stem cells and antioxidants help protect the skin further from environmental aggression like pollution. You may find you don’t need a moisturiser underneath.
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Sunday Riley ICE Ceramide Moisturising Cream £57.00
Strengthening, replenishing, and restoring the skin is key the skin needs moisture and even more so when the skin barrier has been compromised, choosing the right moisturiser is difficult when the skin barrier is damaged. One moisturiser I have found I can rely on no matter how sensitive my skin has become is Sunday Riley Ice Ceramide Moisturizing Cream. This gorgeous powerfully effective barrier repair cream offers the complete solution to repairing the skin barrier. This ceramide-enriched moisturiser can be used during the day or the evening (I especially love this for the evening) and delivers everything the skin barrier needs to fully repair. This is more suited to normal to dry skin, if you have more of oilier skin I would recommend applying Cicaplast at night time and SOS SPF50 as your day cream in the day.
Skin Rocks The Support Oil £60.00
Can't get by without a facial oil when the skin barrier is not happy the best facial recovery oil is Skin Rocks, The Support Oil. This lipid-rich facial oil is perfect for either enveloping the skin like a cashmere blanket to offer immediate comfort or pressing a few drops over your moisturiser to give your skin a moment of calm. This oil is worth the investment even after the skin barrier is repaired use this weekly to massage the face or use it as a barrier booster at might time to keep the skin barrier strong and happy.
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Fiona x
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