A dermatologist explains how over-moisturizing damages your skin barrier through a process called maceration, which causes inflammation. She debunks the "glass skin" trend and describes what happens when you use too much moisturizer.
If your skin looks like this or, or this, or even this, you might have something that I like to call micro macerated skin. I'm a board certified dermatologist who's here to tell you that glass skin is never happening for you or for me. And the reason people end up looking like this with an inflamed skin barrier, which is probably what you're used to hearing, is because of micromaceration, meaning it's been over moisturized. Everyone thinks that moisture is the essence of beauty and we gotta moisturize as much as we possibly can. But the reality is in environments that are too moist, our skin breaks down. And medically this is known as maceration. When you have a full breakdown of your skin, full on maceration.
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