Your moisturizer is one of the fundamental and most important parts of your everyday skincare routine. While it may seem like a super basic step in your routine it provides numerous benefits for the skin. 

While on the most basic level a moisturizer hydrates the skin, this action in itself is pretty important to maintain your skin barrier. 

When you think of a damaged skin barrier, it’s typically characterized by dryness, cracking, irritation, and redness. The skin just overall feels tight and dry. And, if you’re unlucky there could be some discomfort associated with a damaged barrier. 

A weakened skin barrier can also be susceptible to other skin concerns like an uneven skin tone and increased acne breakouts since the barrier is not working at an optimal level to protect against irritants and bacteria. 

What role does moisturizer play in your routine? 

With a weakened barrier, you may think that you need to pile on serum after serum or treatment after treatment. But, the opposite is true. You need to switch to a basic routine in order to help your skin barrier recover. 

In this basic routine, your moisturizer plays an important role in helping the barrier recover. So, it pays to use one that is actively helping restore your barrier. And to do so you need a moisturizer with ingredients like Ceramides and Hyaluronic Acid. Ceramides help rebuild a protective barrier on the skin to reduce moisture loss while Hyaluronic Acid helps hydrate and plump the skin. 

Our Barrier Support Moisturizer contains these ingredients plus a couple more barrier-friendly ingredients like Aloe and Centella Asiatica that help with the discomfort and irritation associated with a damaged skin barrier. 

Keeping your skin hydrated and restoring your skin is one of the most important things you can do to restore the barrier. 

How to best use our Barrier Support Moisturizer 

The Barrier Support Moisturizer has a rich texture that’s somewhere between a cream and gel consistency. So, you get the richness of a cream but the lightweight aspect of a gel moisturizer. It won’t feel heavy on the skin but it still deeply hydrates. 

In your everyday routine, all you really need is one pump (or two if your skin really needs it) to adequately hydrate the skin. A little really goes a long way to moisturize and protect the skin barrier. 

In your AM routine, you can apply the moisturizer before your sunscreen, and in your PM routine apply it as the last step. 

But, our Barrier Moisturizer isn’t just great for your face. It has a couple other uses you may not immediately realize:

For dry, ashy hands 

Although our Barrier Support Moisturizer was specifically formulated for your face, that doesn’t mean you can’t use it on other dry areas of the body. 

With super reparative and hydrating ingredients like multiple Ceramides and Hyaluronic Acid, you can slather on some of the moisturizer that areas that tend to get pretty dry. 

For example, if you wash your hands multiple times throughout the day (talking to the germaphobes out there), then you could end up with some dry, ashy hands. That’s where those hydrating, restorative ingredients in our moisturizer come in. All you have to do is pump some onto your hands any time you feel like your hands need it.  

And, if you tend to deal with dry, cracked skin, the Barrier Support Moisturizer can help with other areas of the body, not just your hands. That goes for dry, scaly elbows and knees too! 

As a face mask 

While our new moisturizer is not a super heavy moisturizer, you can add a little extra to use as a face mask. By using the moisturizer as a face mask you can add an extra dose of hydration to the skin if your skin is really going through it. 

Simply pump a bit more moisturizer than you would normally use and spread a thick layer to the skin. Then, you can leave the moisturizer on the skin for 10 to 20 minutes to allow the skin to absorb that extra hydration. Once that time is up just rinse the face and enjoy baby soft skin. 

The nourishing and hydrating ingredients make the moisturizer a great option for all skin types. Since it doesn’t contain any harsh or active ingredients you can use the moisturizer as a face mask without worry of irritation. 

To hydrate dry feet 

Another typically dry area of the skin is typically on the feet. Feet can get dry, cracked, and flaky which can be pretty uncomfy if left untreated. 

By adding a few drops of your favorite skincare oil to the Barrier Support Moisturizer, you can add much needed moisture to the skin on your feet to help alleviate some of that dryness. Although, if you have some serious dry, cracked feet, we do recommend going to a derm if the dryness and cracking does not resolve. 

Final tips…

While moisturizers are generally pretty straightforward when it comes to application, there are some things you may be forgetting to do. For example, when applying moisturizer to the face, lots of people tend to neglect the neck. And, to help the moisturizer better absorb into the skin, applying it to damp skin can help. By doing so, you can help  the water already on the skin stay put since the moisturizer helps lock in hydration. 

Ultimately, while a moisturizer may not be the most exciting step in your routine, it is an important one that helps the skin barrier stay strong or recover whenever needed.