Barrier Restoration: The Clinical Dermatology Guide to Lipid Repair

The stratum corneum — your skin’s outermost wall — is built of corneocyte bricks held together by a lipid mortar of ceramides, cholesterol, and free fatty acids. Over-exfoliation, harsh cleansers, and climate stress erode that mortar, and the result is the tight, stinging, unpredictable skin so many people misdiagnose as ‘sensitive’. Repair follows a strict […]