Damaged Skin Barrier? Read Our Tips On Repairing Damaged Skin
Winter is a time when your complexion can become compromised, the harsh weather conditions, increased home heating, and low humidity leading to a damaged skin barrier that’s tight, flaky, and irritated.
In this blog, we’re sharing skin barrier repair tips and advice, rounding up some of our favourite skin barrier-repairing skincare that helps you maintain optimal skin health by reducing water loss, and keeping harmful pollutants at bay to keep your skin.
What Is A Skin Barrier?
Your skin's protective barrier is made up of a delicate balance of water, lipids, and proteins. When this barrier is damaged, it struggles to retain moisture and protect against external factors, such as pollution, irritants, and allergens, making it more susceptible to damage and irritation.
How Do You Maintain Skin Barrier Health?
To keep your skin barrier healthy throughout the winter months, it’s essential to maintain a consistent skincare routine that focuses on hydration and protection, opting for specific skin barrier skincare that helps keep your complexion healthy and radiant.
When choosing skin barrier-restoring skincare, you should consider introducing products with nourishing ingredients like ceramides and hyaluronic acid that lock moisture into your skin, keeping your complexion healthy and protected throughout the winter season.
Seven Steps To A Skin Barrier Boosting Routine
Tired of lacklustre skin this winter and ready to restore comfort and health to your skin barrier? We’re sharing a simple seven-step routine, introducing a moisturising sunscreen and what we think is the best moisturiser for dry sensitive skin to keep your skin calm and radiant throughout winter.
Step 1: Opt For Gentle Cleansing
A damaged skin barrier requires gentle care, so swap out harsh cleansers for something much milder, like this Wildsmith Skin Active Repair Nourishing Cleansing Balm to keep your skin clear without exacerbating dryness and tightness.
Winning multiple awards for its efficacy, this luxurious balm intensely hydrates and nourishes your skin as it cleanses, the gentle, natural ingredient-enriched formula harnessing the power of antioxidants, vitamins, and botanical oils to leave your skin healthy, glowing, and perfectly cleansed.
Infused with rosehip oil, meadowfoam seed oil, calendula oil, seabuckthorn seed oil, and kukui butter, this daily skin barrier-boosting cleanser helps to improve skin tone and texture, slowing moisture loss and speeding up skin healing to repair and replenish your complexion.
Step 2: Moisturise Regularly
Choosing a moisturiser specifically created for dry sensitive skin is crucial to repairing your skin barrier and keeping your skin healthy and hydrated, opting for formulas rich in ingredients like glycerin, ceramides, and hyaluronic acid that help lock in moisture and soothe inflammation.
Designed to designed to repair and nourish damaged skin barriers, this Peter Thomas Roth Water Drench Hyaluronic Cloud Rich Barrier Moisturizer harnesses the power of 30% hyaluronic acid complex and 3% HydraFence™ to provide long-lasting hydration and improve your skin's ability to retain moisture.
Lightweight and non-greasy, this daily moisturiser utilises Barrier Defense Technology to support and strengthen your skin's protective barrier, keeping your complexion radiant and youthful.
Step 3: Apply a Moisturising Sunscreen
Shielding your skin from the harmful effects of UVA and UVB rays is essential for maintaining skin health, even in the harsh winter months, which is why introducing a moisturising sunscreen, like this Sarah Chapman Skin Insurance SPF50 Invisible is an important part of your daily skincare routine.
Shielding your skin from UV damage and maintaining skin barrier health, this groundbreaking, invisible skin enhancer delivers impressive SPF50 protection, providing comprehensive defence against UVA, UVB, thermal, and infrared radiation.
Enriched with cutting-edge ingredients like titanium dioxide and zinc oxide, this lightweight daily sunscreen offers broad-spectrum protection to guard your skin against harmful sun rays, the addition of anti-ageing ingredients nourishing and revitalising your skin while providing a soft-focus finish.
Step 4: Use Skin Barrier Repairing Skincare
Incorporating products specifically designed for damaged skin barrier repair, with essential lipids, barrier-supporting ceramides, and potent humectants is a simple way to help replenish your skin's natural moisture reserves and strengthen its protective layer.
Enriched with artichoke extract, a natural ingredient renowned for its antioxidant properties and ability to improve skin elasticity, this AXIS-Y 6+1+1 Artichoke Intensive Skin Barrier Ampoule combines essential ingredients and technologies to intensely hydrate, soothe irritation, and reinforce your skin's protective barrier.
Step 5: Include Skin Barrier-Friendly Actives
Opting for gentle, barrier-friendly actives like niacinamide, panthenol, and peptides can help restore and repair damaged skin barriers, promoting collagen production, reducing inflammation, and improving overall skin health without causing further irritation.
Delivering incredible skin nourishment, this HydroPeptide Daily Drench Peptide Boosting Serum hydrates and strengthens your skin barrier, the potent peptides, hyaluronic acid, and botanical extract-enriched formula promoting a healthy and resilient complexion.
Formulated with HydroPeptide's exclusive CellRenew-16 peptide, this serum stimulates essential structural proteins and keratinocytes to improve barrier function, the hydrating peptides working in synergy to boost your skin's natural hyaluronic acid production to nourish your skin, and smooth the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles.
Step 6: Avoid Harsh Ingredients
Damaged skin barriers need gentle skincare that’s free from alcohol, witch hazel, and other potentially irritating or drying ingredients which can exacerbate your skin's condition, further compromising your skin barrier.
Designed to repair and protect damaged skin barriers, this Sand and Sky Marshmallow Toner combines the soothing power of marshmallow extract with the transformative benefits of niacinamide to restore your skin's natural radiance.
Strengthening your skin barrier by promoting collagen production and boosting fatty acids, this AHA and BHA-infused toner provides gentle exfoliation, the addition of niacinamide minimising the appearance of pores, refining skin texture, and reducing irritation and sensitivity to reveal a calm and balanced complexion.
Step 7: Embrace Skin Barrier Skincare Routine
The simplest way to ensure your skin barrier stays healthy and resilient is by focusing on a consistent skincare routine aimed at repairing and protecting your skin barrier, prioritising hydration, gentle cleansing, and consistent use of barrier-repairing products.
Created specifically to shield and repair your damaged skin barrier, this OSKIA Citylife I-Zone Balm Anti-Pollution Eye and Lip Zone Balm combines the fortifying benefits of advanced antioxidants and cutting-edge actives to protect your delicate eye area and lips from environmental stressors.
Enriched with astaxanthin and vitamin E, this protective balm provides extreme antioxidant protection to combat free radical damage, the inclusion of vitamin A and Collageneer® working synergistically to firm, contour, and lift your skin, revealing a more youthful and radiant complexion.
Shop Skin Barrier Restoring Skincare
This nourishing balm protects the delicate eye and lip areas from the effects of day-to-day pollution and free radical damage.
A gel-textured serum that plumps, firms, and hydrates the skin, HydroPeptide Daily Drench boosts the skin’s own renewal of hyaluronic acid.
Loved learning about how to keep your skin barrier strong and healthy this winter? Stick around a while longer and read our latest blog dedicated to the self-care products you need for your self-love revolution.
