Skin Barrier Protection Gotu Solutions

Let’s face it with storms raging through the UK this week, our garden fencing and roof tiles are not the only things that have taken a battering from the wind and rain. Most have us have felt the wind snapping across our cheeks, and the constant yo-yo between hot and cold indoor and outdoor weather has also meant our skin is being tested to its maximum endurance lately.

The outermost layer of your skin, known as your skin barrier, defends your body against a constant onslaught of environmental threats while simultaneously protecting your body’s critical water balance. Symptoms such as dryness, itching, and inflammation can alert you to a disturbance in this important barrier. With Spring upon us soon, the changing of the seasons, can be highly disruptive to skin, so it’s an important time to look after your skin barrier.

Why is skin barrier protection so important?

If you’re looking at maintaining the health of your skin, then keeping the skin barrier protected and healthy is the first step to radiant skin. It’s the key to boosted, balanced and brighter skin, and stronger skin that can keep external aggressors at bay and allow skin cells to function at optimum levels. ALL skin types, tones and ages can benefit from skin barrier protection.

Gotu Kola Intense Repair Balm

It’s an intensely moisturising, vegan multi-use balm which helps replenish lost hydration and soothes dry skin. It’s also great for sensitive skin, eczema, soothing rosacea, sun burn and promoting healthy skin.
With special ingredient, Gotu Kola, also known as Cica and Tiger Grass – it’s known for its extremely reparative and soothing properties. Plus Raspberry Seed Oil which is rich in Omega Fatty Acids and helps boost skin barrier health.How to use:
Warm between fingers to melt and activate. Apply to face morning and night.

(£60 at Fenwicks.co.uk and uk.Naturopathica.com)

Scientia marries science with nature to create supercharged, efficacious formulas that battle tired, dull and stressed-out complexions. Whether you’re 16 or 60, each formula will enhance your skin via globally sourced, glow-giving ingredients that garner real results. Need to restore depleted, stressed-out skin? Quell irritation and strengthen your skin barrier with the Ceramide Skin Rescue Moisture Barrier Balm: a cooling cocktail of ceramides, hyaluronic acid and skin-loving natural extracts.

Our skin goes through a LOT. From fluctuating weather to disruptive AC and heating to pollution and over-exfoliation, it’s no wonder that it can end up feeling irritated and depleted. That’s where Scientia’s Ceramide Skin Rescue Moisture Barrier Balm steps in…

Designed to drench skin in a cooling veil of soothing hydration, the comforting balm is powered by a medley of nourishing, barrier-boosting ingredients. A complex of five ceramides work to help protect and restore your skin’s natural barrier, while hyaluronic acid, fatty acids and lipids mimic your skin’s natural building blocks to lock in and retain moisture. An infusion of jojoba, watermelon, aloe, baobab and Kalahari melon extracts then helps to plump and smooth, revealing more supple, dewy and glowing skin.

£28 from Cult Beauty