What’s In Your Moisturizer?

Hydration is the most important step towards promoting healthy skin. It sets the stage for other ingredients to be delivered and work properly.

When boat sail into port, why come in at high tide? Because they can navigate better ! Secondly, a boat can reach the docks to deliver their cargo with more water in the river. Your skin, like the waterways, brings in the goods and nutrients. But, in order to carry in all the skin’s needs, we must provide the high tide or in this case, the water!.

This is where the magic truly happens and this is what separates basic products from great products.

Unlike most water, used in skincare formulas, SkinFit specially treats water to enhance absorption. The first step “ Improve Hydration”. Secondly adding charged minerals. Minerals work as catalyst and maintain optimal skin health. But, minerals topically have to be in a usable form. For example, Calcium regulates nutrient passage in and out of cell walls. However, your skin can’t use calcium carbonate (found in products of lesser quality). Instead, Calcium offered in a yeast- glyco peptide bound mineral, is more bioavailable and passes readily through cell membranes.

Another important step is to lock in the hydration ensuring skin softness and protection utilizing a natural Glycosaminoglycan ( Marine Algae ) creating an invisible film to reduce drying out and increase cell metabolism. Increased cell metabolism produces more skin cells on your body’s surface. Remember an old TV set? The picture was adequate, but today it is sharper and smoother. This is because there are more pixels. Now, your skin, with more cells packed in together, your skin will look smoother, tighter and more youthful.

Ability to use the hydration goes to Saccharide Isomerate. This marvel molecule is a moisture regulator that functions under the driest conditions, where traditional moisturizing agents fail. Dry skin lacks water in the upper scaly layers, whilst the underlying layers are normally hydrated by the skin’s internal moisturizing mechanism. The secret to resolving dry skin is not only having enough moisture, but also having that moisture properly placed to resolve the dry skin condition! It binds itself to keratin like a magnet, moisturizing the skin to preserve softness and tonicity. Skin hydration is now regulated by the balance between Trans Epidermic Water Loss (TEWL) and skin’s ability to retain that water.

Putting Sodium Hyaluronate into the synergy enhances hydration from yet another angle. Hyaluronic acid is a natural complex sugar of the glycosaminoglycan family. Hyaluronic acid, depending on its molecular weight, plays a key role in helping your skin stay hydrated, repaired, stimulated or nurtured. * It maintains the hydration balance thanks to its strong ability to retain water. * It fills in the space between collagen fibers in the dermis, where its polymer network supports the extracellular matrix.

Remember, the Stratum Corneum (horny outer layer of the skin) is selectively permeable. To further enhance optimal penetration through hydration and moisturization another aid is employed. Three neutral amino acids are now added serine, proline and alanine and this is why. Serine is the most abundant. Proline is a typical amino acid associated with collagen and alanine is the third amino acid, a base of many proteins. Due to their relevance, these amino acids help restore the NMF ( Natural Moisturizing Factor) in dry skin. Studies emphasize that they are key elements for the softness, flexibility and youthfulness of the (SC) Stratum Corneum.

All these ingredients are balanced in a molecular film containing a sub micro dispersion. Molecular films are very thin monolayer functional films containing active ingredients that can spread easily and homogeneously on the epidermis, being efficiently absorbed by the Stratum Corneum (SC) and at a minimum all play an important role in hydration and delivery of actives.

Once superior hydration is achieved, the rest of everything else falls into place. The synergy of these hydrating factors now can help pull into place antioxidants to protect and reduce inflammation that furthers nutrient uptake. Peptides can be added to boost elastin and nourish collagen production on many levels. Using proper levels of proven ingredients synergistically combined with years of experience will ultimately deliver the kind of hydration needed to keep your skin healthy, hydrated and youthful looking. In addition, make sure you products are free of bad ingredients that can damage or slow down results.

Buying any products in the future purchase wisely. Learn more about our list of bad ingredients. www.Skinfit.com