AccuFixCosmetics AccuPair Skin Barrier Repair Cream

A skin barrier repair cream/moisturiser that is especially ideal for sensitive skin types. It nourishes dry, dehydrated, and irritated skin, giving back to it what it lacks with ingredients such as glycerin, cold-pressed, organic sunflower oil, and shea butter. It’s gentle enough to be suitable for toddlers.

How to Use

Massage a pea-sized amount into damp skin after cleansing. Use morning and evening or as frequently as desired.

Key Ingredients

Organic, Cold-Pressed Sunflower Seed Oil

• Linoleic acid is an essential fatty acid that can help maintain the skin’s barrier function and prevent excessive water loss through the skin.
• Studies have also shown that the sebum of acne patients tends to be deficient in this essential fatty acid.
• Sunflower oil is very rich in linoleic acid, which makes it an exceptional oil for people with acne-prone skin, dry skin, and even eczema or dermatitis. Linoleic acid also benefits the skin by helping strengthen cell membranes and shows antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activity.
• Several studies have also suggested that sunflower oil has anti-inflammatory properties, making it a great option for people with sensitive skin.

Shea Butter

• Shea butter is the fat extracted from the kernels of the shea tree and helps to soften and moisturise skin.
• It consists of triglycerides with oleic, stearic, linoleic, and palmitic fatty acids as their primary constituents, alongside a high percentage of unsaponifiable compounds such as triterpenes, tocopherol, phenols, and sterol, which possess potent anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties.
• Triterpenes are a group of compounds that partake in a wide range of biological reactions, can enhance tissue repair, and also have anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer properties. They are present in abundance in shea butter.
• The triterpenes in shea butter also exert an anti-ageing effect by deactivating enzymes that break down collagen.
• Shea butter’s ability to moisturise, alongside its anti-inflammatory and skin barrier repair effects, makes it highly beneficial for dry skin and conditions such as dermatitis and psoriasis.

Panthenol

• Panthenol is the alcohol form of pantothenic acid, or vitamin B5.
• It readily penetrates into the skin, where it is converted to pantothenic acid.
• Pantothenic acid is highly hygroscopic, effectively holding on to water, making it a popular humectant in cosmetic formulas to moisturise and hydrate the skin. It also helps maintain the integrity of the skin’s barrier and reduces the rate of transepidermal water loss through the skin.
• It can also improve the process of wound healing.