Skincare for Baby
3 Nourishing Ingredients For Your Baby’s Skin
When choosing the products to use on your little one, it’s important to understand a baby’s unique skin needs. One way to make sure you’re picking the best: Look for lipids, vitamins and moisturizers that help nurture and protect.
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
As a new mom or dad, you’re probably (understandably) wary about ingredients in products that could irritate your baby’s skin—like fragrances and parabens. As important as it is to avoid irritants, certain ingredients, like Ceramides, can benefit your baby’s delicate skin. Looking at product labels is important during the first years of your child’s life, as your little one’s skin is still building its protective skin barrier.1 Choosing products that nurture skin now can help your child have healthy skin for years to come. Here are three superstar ingredients you’ll want to prioritize.
Look for These 3 Ingredients to Promote a Strong Skin Barrier
- Ceramides: These naturally occurring lipids make up about 50% of the skin’s barrier2 which helps keep moisture inside the skin and help maintain the balance of the skin barrier. If baby’s skin is lacking Ceramides, their skin can become especially prone to dryness, which may lead to irritation and itching.
- Niacinamide: Also known as vitamin B3, Niacinamide helps calm skin.
- Hyaluronic Acid:Produced naturally by the body which attracts and retains water, much like a sponge. In skin products, it provides gentle hydration.
Ceramides: Helping keep moisture in skin
We all have Ceramides in our skin. In fact, they comprise up to 50% of the lipids in skin’s outermost layer. Lipids like Ceramides fill in the gaps between your skin cells so your skin can seal in moisture and keep impurities out.5 In the womb, babies have a ceramide-rich coating on their skin called the vernix caseosa, designed to protect their skin barrier as it develops.6 This is lost soon after birth, and it is common to see dryness and skin peeling as a result.7 Ceramide-rich moisturizers, such as CeraVe Baby Moisturizing Lotion and CeraVe Baby Moisturizing Cream, can help relieve dry skin and maintain the skin’s barrier.6
How CeraVe helps:
Developed with pediatric dermatologists, all CeraVe Baby products contain a blend of three essential Ceramides: Ceramides 1, 3, and 6-II, which are identical to those found naturally in baby’s skin. CeraVe Baby Wash & Shampoo leaves skin clean, nourished and soft without disrupting the barrier. CeraVe Baby Moisturizing Lotion and CeraVe Baby Moisturizing Cream both help to relieve dry skin by helping reduce moisture loss, increasing hydration and maintaining the skin barrier.
Hyaluronic Acid: Helping maintain skin’s moisture barrier
Hyaluronic Acid is produced naturally by the body found in skin. It helps maintain a proper moisture balance, giving skin its plump volume and smooth texture. Hyaluronic Acid attracts and retains water, much like a sponge. In topical skin products, it provides surface hydration without a heavy or greasy feel, and is suitable for sensitive baby skin. Hyaluronic Acid can draw moisture from the air and provide a layer of hydration on top of the skin, providing softness and smoothness.
How CeraVe helps:
Developed by pediatric dermatologists, CeraVe baby products contain Hyaluronic Acid, which helps to keep baby’s developing skin barrier moisturized. CeraVe Baby Moisturizing Lotion helps skin hold onto moisture all day. Plus, CeraVe Baby Moisturizing Cream is fragrance-free, paraben-free and dye-free, formulated to deliver up to 24 hours of moisture while providing baby with gentle hydration for healthy-looking skin.
Niacinamide: Helping calm skin
Niacinamide (also known as vitamin B3) plays an important role in calming the skin, while helping baby’s skin stay moisturized and protected.3
How CeraVe helps:
Niacinamide is considered a gentle ingredient and is typically well-tolerated by those with sensitive skin, including babies. CeraVe Baby Moisturizing Lotion features a lightweight formula with Niacinamide, which when used daily helps to hydrate and maintain your baby’s delicate skin as it reinforces the skin’s natural barrier.
Once you know the nourishing ingredients to look for (and why they matter), you’ll be able to keep your baby’s skin soft, smooth and healthy as your little one grows.
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References
- Schachner, Lawrence A., et al. “A Consensus About the Importance of Ceramide Containing Skincare for Normal and Sensitive Skin Conditions in Neonates and Infants.” Journal of drugs in dermatology: JDD 19.8 (2020): 769-776.
- Coderch, L., López, O., de la Maza, A. et al.Ceramides and Skin Function. Am J Clin Dermatol4, 107–129 (2003). https://doi.org/10.2165/00128071-200304020-00004.
- Tanno O, Ota Y, Kitamura N, Katsube T, Inoue S. (2000). Nicotinamide increases biosynthesis of ceramides as well as other stratum corneum lipids to improve the epidermal permeability. Br J Dermatol.143, 524–531
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- Telofski, L., Morello, .A, Mack Correa, M., Stamatas, G.. (2012). The Infant Skin Barrier: Can We Preserve, Protect, and Enhance the Barrier? Dermatology Research and Practice. 198789.
- Schachner, L., Andriessen, A., Benjamin, L., Bree, A., Lechman, P., Pinera-Lllano, A., Kircik, L.. (2020). “A Consensus About the Importance of Ceramide Containing Skincare for Normal and Sensitive Skin Conditions in Neonates and Infants.” Journal of Drugs in Dermatology 19 (8), 772.
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