The skin is protected from external aggressions by the hydrolipidic film. This film allows the skin to retain its natural hydration by retaining water within the epidermis. However, with irritating factors such as pollution, perspiration, dust or extreme temperatures, the hydrolipidic film tends to fade. If you put on makeup and remove makeup every day, your skin can get very dry if you don’t use a face moisturizer.

A moisturizer helps to nourish this hydrolipidic film and keep it in good condition, for a protected and healthy skin. Without face moisturizer, the epidermis cells dry out and become whiter, which makes the complexion dull, your skin no longer reflects light. Moisturizing your skin well is therefore the guarantee of having a healthy glow.

Moisturizing your skin with a moisturizing face cream is also the first step to take to slow down skin aging. Indeed, dry skin is damaged more easily and wrinkles and spots appear much earlier than on hydrated skin. So of course we cannot stop time, but good hydration will prevent premature aging. 

A moisturizer, in concrete terms, is a cosmetic composed of an aqueous phase and a fatty phase. The aqueous phase provides water to the skin. The fatty phase, for its part, reinforces the hydrolipidic film, which will retain water in the skin. Clearly, water nourishes the skin, oil protects it.

The composition of a face moisturizer varies depending on the type of skin to which it is intended. Creams for combination to oily skin will have a light, mostly aqueous composition with little oil. Conversely, a dry skin moisturizer will be richer, with a more oily phase, to protect the skin and prevent dehydration.

For the record, the first moisturizer as we know it today was born in 1905. Since then, the moisturizer has evolved well with formulas with active ingredients adapted to skin types, protection UV, or even specific shades to make cream and foundation at the same time. There are also more or less concentrated derivatives of moisturizer, such as emulsions or serums. 

Depending on your skin type, you must of course choose a suitable moisturizer, but also find the right amount. Should it be applied morning and evening? In a thick layer or a thin layer? Look at the directions on your tube of moisturizer, but especially listen to your skin. If your skin is not sufficiently nourished, or conversely, too nourished, you will have to adapt the quantity or turn to another cream.

If you have problematic skin

You have to choose a range of acne treatment products. Beware of products that are too aggressive, instead choose gentle products that are both purifying and healing. Acne and blackheads are often the problem with oily skin, so choose products that are moisturizing but not too rich. Do not hesitate to seek advice from a pharmacy or from a dermatologist.

For combination to oily skin

We choose soft and light products, with a majority of water. You need a low-fat, astringent and purifying moisturizer to rebalance sebum production. Once again, beware of overly powerful products that may damage your skin.

For dry skin

You need a cream with a significant fatty phase, to retain water in the epidermis and protect it from external aggressions. So turn to rich and very nourishing formulas.

If you have sensitive skin

Pay attention to the composition of your cream. Choose a cream with a refined composition, from the sensitive skin ranges in drugstores. You need a cream that is as moisturizing as it is nourishing but with a very gentle formula, to prevent allergic reactions or irritations.

The choice of your face moisturizer is important, but it must be consistent with your entire beauty routine: you do not apply an oily skin cream after removing makeup with a dry skin milk. Your cosmetics must act in synergy, from cleanser to makeup to makeup remover.