What is the difference between moisturising and nourishing?
The skin is made up of a hydro-lipidic film whose "water/fat" balance must be maintained. It is a real protective barrier and it allows to keep the skin supple and well hydrated.
Two different actions : HYDRATE and NOURISH
👊🏼 To combat dehydrated skin:
Moisturizing the skin means providing it with water. Aloe vera is a key ingredient for this, as is glycerin, which is widely used in cosmetics, or hyaluronic acid (which retains up to 1000x its weight in water!).
👊🏼Tofight dry skin:
Nourishing the skin means providing it with lipids, good fat.
This allows it to be more supple, better protected against external aggressions and to limit water evaporation. Your best allies to nourish your skin are vegetable oils (to be chosen according to your other needs) but also vegetable butters like shea butter for example.
How to recognize if you have dehydrated or dry skin?
- Lack of hydration is often characterized by tightness, discomfort and redness. Often the complexion is dull, there is a lack of suppleness and small fine lines appear at the end of the day.
This is a very common problem, which is not the case with lack of nutrition.
- Dry skin is skin that does not produce enough lipids and may lack sebum (oily skin is often not affected by this problem). It can present areas of desquamation, be irritated, taut and also be more sensitive to heat and cold.
TO REMEMBER:
👉 Nourishing helps maintain hydration.
👉 If you don't have dry skin, moisturizing with a cream that already contains nourishing oils (example: Glowy Hours with borage oil and All I need with sunflower oil) can be enough to retain water, without necessarily going through a second step of nutrition.
TIPS:
- after your moisturizer, you can apply a nourishing vegetable oil to maintain the water supply and protect your skin.
- In winter, you can use a moisturizing serum and apply a richer, more nourishing cream right after.
