What is Ectoin?
Ectoin is an amino acid derivative that acts as a high-end, clinically proven active ingredient to help protect skin from dehydration and various external stressors such as free radicals, air pollution, and climate concerns and promote skin barrier improvements. It is suitable for all skin types including sensitive skin.
What Does Ectoin Do For Your Skin?
A better question might be: “What doesn’t ectoin do?” This skin barrier super ingredient is a gentle, hydrating, and anti-inflammatory superstar that can help address a wide variety of skin concerns. Ectoin prevents transdermal water-loss and alleviates the effects of environmental skin stressors such as free radicals and UVA-induced cell damage.
These properties make it an ideal ingredient for sensitive skin. Its potential to reduce irritation allows for it to be successfully combined with other actives, harnessing their benefits while reducing the likelihood of skin irritation. By supporting the skin’s barrier and regeneration process, Ectoin both protects the skin and improves the skin, making it a key-player in a variety of use-cases like dryness, psoriasis, eczema, post-suncare, dermatitis, and post-shave care.
Benefits of Ectoin
We formulated our ectoin cream, Reactive Skin Solutions, with a potent amount of ectoin. At a 5% level, ectoin works to:
- Provide long-term hydration and stabilize the skin barrier
- Relieve and calm dehydrated and irritated skin
- Reduce skin sensitivity and visual redness
- Protect the skin against environmental stressors
- Help reduce topical symptoms like scaling and roughness
Which Skin Types Can Use Ectoin?
Ectoin is suitable for all skin types, and it’s especially great for dry, sensitive skin. It can be used daily and long-term, which makes it a reliable tool to hydrate and soothe you and your family’s skin.
Is Ectoin Better Than Hyaluronic Acid?
Hyaluronic acid and ectoin both work to improve overall hydration but ectoin offers the added benefit of calming inflammation making it a fantastic supporting ingredient in hybrid formulas. When used in combination with other humectants, ectoin serves to make the formula more impactful by targeting areas most in need of hydration. You will find it combined with glycerin and polyglutamic acid in our Multi-Quench Plumping Hydration Serum for an ultra-dose of moisture.
Ectoin’s multifaceted ability to hydrate while calming inflammation and supporting the skin’s natural barrier make it key in products made for sensitive skin as well as in best-of-both products that treat and soothe. At elevated levels it can be classified as a medical device in the EU addressing dermatitis and psoriasis.
