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What originates dry skin and what ingredients in skin moisturizers are effective?

Dry skin is caused by two factors: (I) One is the alteration done to the skin's protective barrier resulting in an exaggerated water loss through the skin, and (II) A diminution in the proportion of the skin's water-retaining sugar and protein molecules. These molecules are the complex proteoglycans and glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) or carbohydrate molecular sequences.

The main organic (i.e. carbon-containing) elements of human cells are proteins, lipids, various carbohydrates and carbohydrate-containing molecules, and the nucleic acids (DNA and RNA). The carbohydrate-containing molecules can be very complex; those in which carbohydrates are linked to proteins or lipids are known as glycoconjugates. There are 3 main groups of glycoconjugates: glycoproteins, proteoglycans, and glycolipids.

The word glyco- means "sweet" and alludes to monosaccharides or sugars. The role carbohydrates (sugars) play in the production of energy has been known for years. However, their, important role in orchestrating the normal structure and function of the body is essentially a new discovery that is the subject of a new blossoming field of science knows as the 'sweet science of glycobiology'.

Several skin moisturizers and emollient solutions sold by cosmetic and skin care companies delay the healing of irritated and damaged skin and make the situation worse by inhibiting biological skin repair and increasing skin damage, much as do skin irritants. Simply using occluding products that include petrolatum and lanolin, which impede water loss, doesn't help. You need a product or ingredient that penetrates the skin and grants true hydration.

Dry Skin Needs Real Hydration

What helps is to shield the skin surface and to help the skin healing process from within. This is done by supplying ingredients that help the skin heal itself thoroughly.

Despite many years of sound evidence proving that detergents degrade the skin's natural protective function and damage the skin, most if not all moisturizers and emollients sold by major skin care brands contain high quantities of detergents and detergent-like chemicals. Furthermore, many of the colorants and optical diffusers used to give the appearance of healthy skin are also damaging to the skin.

Lipids and fats in the skin provide the epidermal barrier to help prevent water loss. These lipids in the upper skin zone known as the stratum corneum are arranged in layers called lamellae. The deeper skin layers contain more typical fats such as triglycerides and phospholipids while the superficial layers have more ceramides, cholesterol and free fatty acids.

Waxes and oils placed on the skin seal the skin's surface and avoid exaggerated water loss. Cosmetic moisturizers loosen the skin's protective barrier and hydrate (wet) the dermal proteins, however, in the long-run they cause damaging long-term consequences.