5 K-Beauty Products That Protect & Repair Your Skin Barrier To Look 10 Years Younger
February 28, 2018 by Lisa Cupido
We love a good skincare trend, especially when it doesn’t resemble a trend at all because it’s so effective. Using the best products to protect and repair your skin barrier is so much more than a Korean beauty trend — it’s a genius way to correct any bad skincare habits to ensure that the skin stays hydrated, healthy, and less prone to signs of anti-aging like wrinkles, fine lines, and sun spots.
Generally speaking, one of the key differences between Korean beauty and other beauty focuses is that K-beauty doesn’t believe in torturing your skin to get results. Whereas many of us are all on board when it comes to using retinol and Retin-A, it’s more potent cousin that requires a prescription, K-beauty’s emphasis on repairing and protecting the skin barrier requires products that soothe and heal and won’t irritate your skin for the greater good of preventing wrinkles and dryness.
The barrier creams, emulsions, wipes, and sprays on this list all work overtime to deliver moisture with ingredients that are designed to lock in that moisture and leave you with smooth skin that can hold its own on cold days or in pollution and other environmental triggers. Here are five of the best.