Ingredients Beneficial to Baby Skin
The use of uniquely designed moisturizers and emollients for a baby’s everyday skincare regimen, is a simple strategy to ensure healthy development and protection of the skin barrier.
Appropriately formulated products can preserve, protect, and enhance the intact skin barrier by supplying water and lipids and inhibiting water loss. Using a skin care regimen with products containing occlusive, skin protectants, and hypoallergenic ingredients has been proven to help protect and keep the skin properly hydrated.
The following topical ingredients have shown to have excellent clinical benefits and improve quality of life after use. They have been clinically shown to provide relief from eczema by reducing itching and irritation, while demonstrating good tolerability and safety.
1. Colloidal Oatmeal: Hydrates skin and seals in moisture
Occlusive properties for locking in moisture
Humectant water binding and protection
Helps restore pH by maintaining healthy skin barrier
2. Avenathramides: Soothes and calms irritated skin
Antioxidative and anti-irritant properties
Reduced scratching-induced irritation
Helps prevent further disruption of skin barrier function
3. Oat Oil: Rich in essential lipids
Whole oat oil extract reduces transepidermal water loss (TEWL) by up to 56%
Can induce ceramide synthesis by keratinocytes to restore skin barrier
4. Ceramides: 50% of stratum corneum lipid mass
Essential for normal barrier function
Inhibit water loss and protect against potential pathogens
Experts in dermatology from across Europe recommend the use of liquid cleansers containing emollients vs. cleansing bars:
European Dermatology Forum
European Kenvue Health Professionals of Dermatology and Venereology
European Foundation of Allergy and Airways Diseases Patients Association
European Society of Pediatric Dermatology
Global Allergy and Asthma European Network