Cleansing Dry Skin

Cleansing with water or detergents removes lipids and natural moisturising factors like Urea from the skin. Using hot water makes this worse. Prolonged contact with water even for healthy skin causes it to lose important lipids. It takes several hours for the skin to regenerate and recover its natural condition. Frequent cleansing overtaxes the skin's own moisture balance, making it dryer and more sensitive. To avoid making your skin condition worse, cleanse only as often as necessary or as little as possible. If you have dry skin, avoid conventional bath and shower products. Instead, gentle products to help prevent washing out the skin’s own natural moisturising factors. 

Eucerin® Skin Research developed special cleansing and shower products with lipid-replenishing components.  Daily cleansing and showering can put a strain on the skin and the maintainance of its natural barrier function so we recommend Dry Skin Relief Shower & Bath Therapy for use as a body wash or a bath additive.  It intensively replenishes lipids to soothe skin and help relieve the itching associated with dry skin.

Dry Scalp

Just like dry skin, a dry scalp has a reduced concentration of lipids and natural moisturising factors.  Symptoms of dry scalp include:

• Feeling of tightness
• Itching
• Redness
• Skin flaking

The dry scalp does not produce enough oil (sebum), but even frequent hair washing can result in a dry scalp or skin flaking.  Normally, lipids from the scalp envelop the hair to keep it supple and shiny.  Without enough lipids, hair appears dry, brittle and may have split ends – all of which make it difficult to style.  UV light, hot hair drying, and chemical treatments, like colouring and perms also add stress to a dry scalp. 

Cleansing Dry Scalp and Hair

Washing hair daily with conventional shampoos removes not only dust and dirt, but also essential lipids and moisturising factors.  This could dry the scalp further resulting in redness and skin flaking.  To avoid this, we recommend Dry Scalp Relief Shampoo with 5% Urea and skin’s own lipids along with itch-relieving polidocanol to sooth the scalp. It makes even dry, damaged hair shiny and supple.