Barrier Pro^™ Essential Moisturizer

What it is: Replenish hydration and help support improved skin health and appearance with this clinically-tested moisturizer.

Who it's for: Ideal or all skin types.

What it does: Developed in collaboration with skin health professionals, Colorescience Barrier Pro™ Essential Moisturizer helps strengthen the skin’s protective barrier, support and balance the microbiome, and refine texture with an expertly formulated, patent-pending ingredient blend, resulting in a more plumped, vibrant, healthy and youthful appearance. The emollient cream melts into skin and immediately envelops and nourishes with soothing moisture. It improves skin's ability to attract and retain hydration, while nourishing dry, patchy or flaky skin. It supports good bacteria for a stable, balanced microbiome to promote skin integrity and quality, resulting in improved appearance of smooth and supple skin.

Bring back a better barrier. Step back from the reactive cycle of damage and repair and evolve to maintain barrier health every day with Colorescience Barrier Pro™ collection. The Essential Moisturizer goes beyond hydration and provides complementary barrier health by supporting the skin's microbiome balance, replenishing skin and preparing it to better defend itself with improved response to environmental aggressors. The result is plumper, smoother, stronger and healthier, more youthful-looking skin.

Key ingredients:

- + Tri-molecular hyaluronic acid: a combination of three different molecular weight fractions of natural hyaluronic acid produced throughfermentation. Multiple molecule weights enable penetration at various layers of the skin, providing hydration on the surface and into the layers of the epidermis

- Prickly pear cactus extract: rich in antioxidants (flavonoids), polysaccharides, vitamins and minerals which help to soothe, hydrate and protect sensitive skin

- Apple fruit extract: humectant that provides emollient moisturization to soften skin and hydrate to support skin barrier health

- Snow mushroom extract: significantly more hydrating than hyaluronic acid. Proven to provide immediate hydration and improve skin’s ability to retain moisture. Also provides antioxidant support to defend against premature skin aging

- Goji berry extract: powerful antioxidant rich in phytonutrients, vitamins & trace minerals and composed of complex peptidoglycans (PGNs) that acts as a prebiotic by feeding the good bacteria

- Lactobacillus ferment: probiotic-like ferment created from probiotic bacteria, lactobacillus plantarum. Favors the beneficial bacteria while discouraging harmful bacteria. Under patented technology, rich in peptidoglycans (PGNs) and lipotechoic acid (LTA) which induce beta-defensins

- Squalane: high purity sugarcane-derived emollient helps reduce the appearance of wrinkles & fine lines while promoting skin brightness, moisturizing and barrier health. Provides postbiotic benefits to the skin’s microflora by creating an environment to promote diversity

- Crystalide™: time-release bio-harmonical peptide that utilizes lipid carrier technology to exert holistic and optimized activity within the layers of skin to the surface. Increases moisturization and harmonizes skin's maturation and renewal process to smooth and even the skin's surface

- Vital ET™: this bio-available form of vitamin E, combining tocopherol phosphate with disodium lauryliminodipropianate, provides antioxidant

support while helping to calm skin both prior to and following UV exposure.

- Hydrolyzed pea protein: improves skin adaptive responses to increase protection from indoor and outdoor light damage

How to use: Apply 1-2 pumps of the moisturizer to face, neck and décolleté prior to application of sunscreen. Don’t forget 1 pump for the back of hands! Use in the AM and PM.