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If your skin is dry, you need to replace the moisture that has been removed from the layers.
Daily moisturising is essential to maintain the skin's natural humidity, a good moisturiser puts water back into the skin, but what is more important is keeping it there. Using moisturisers can help form a barrier against moisture loss, keeping the skin supple and protected again.
You can often resolve the problem of dry skin by using an emollient. Emollients are skin moisturisers and they generally work in one of two ways:
Occlusion agents - provide an impermeable layer on top of the skin to prevent water loss. This allows the skin to replenish the epidermis. While they are effective, these emollients are often paraffin-based which means that they are thick and greasy to touch.
Humectants - these are often lighter, cream-based agents which pull water from deeper skin layers of the dermis into the more superficial epidermis. Good examples of humectants are glycerin and colloidal oatmeal. These agents are lighter and are well tolerated by people.
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