Ingredients in Skin Moisturizers
Dry skin is produced by 2 factors. One is the damage to the skin's defensive barrier which yields excessive water loss through the skin. The other is a great reduction in the proportion of the skin's water-holding sugar and protein molecules, the complex proteoglycans and glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) molecules.
Many skin moisturizers and emollient products offered by the major skin care producers delay the healing of irritated and flawed skin and make the situation worse by inhibiting biological skin repair. New computer instruments have shown that several popular moisturizers augment skin damage in ways comparable to skin irritants. Nor are skin barrier creams an answer, like those containing petrolatum and lanolin.
What our skin needs is to shield its surface and to heal the skin from within, by putting the skin in a situation in which normal skin repair can occur.
Most if not all the famous moisturizers and emollients currently offered by the major skin care producers contain high proportions of detergents and detergent-like chemicals, ignoring many years of solid evidence that such detergents degrade the skin's innate defensive function and harm the skin. Also, several of the dyes and optical diffusers used to give the appearance of healthy skin are harming to skin.
Dry Skin Treated Naturally
Lipids and fats in the skin provide the epidermal barrier to transcutaneous water loss. These lipids in the upper skin area called the stratum corneum are arranged in layers called lamellae. The lower skin layers contain more typical fats like triglycerides and phospholipids while the upper layers have more ceramides, cholesterol and free fatty acids.
Waxes and oils seal the skin's surface and avoid excess water loss. Cosmetic moisturizers loosen the skin's defensive barrier and moisturize (wet) the skin proteins but have the long-term effect of harming the skin.
A skin-care product is only as effective as what it contains and how those ingredients can aid your skin function better. In fact, moisturizers (or any skin-care product claiming to have an effect on skin repair, wrinkles or sagging skin) should absolutely contain an elegant mix of antioxidants, cell-communicating components, and intercellular elements as they help skin keep a normal level of hydration, build collagen and avoid cellular harm.
Not the famous dry skin creams that have been in the market since the 1920's, when the cosmetic industry begun to sell oil/water/detergent creams for moisturizing instead of the herbal oils that had been used for hundreds of years. This was comparable to the fallacious campaigns, we may all recall, that intended to stop mothers from breast feeding their babies and encouraged their replacement with synthetic infant formulas sold for profit.
A new skin care solution is our latest answer to erase scars and alleviate all kind of skin conditions. Elaborated with natural ingredients, it guarantees no allergic responses and no adverse side effects.
Published January 8th, 2008

RoseHip Oil 
Rose Hip Oil is extracted from the seeds contained in the intensely red berry-like fruits -or hips- of a wild rose-bush that grows in the cool, lush mountain rainy valleys of the southern Andes, in Chile. 