Results from the study showed that hydration had increased from the use of the Clinique Dramatically Different Moisturiser and the Nivea Soft Moisture but not from the Embryolisse Lait-Crème Concentré. Cherry Healey used these results to make an unqualified leap and conclude that your skin health is determined only with hydration (or Trans Epidermal Water Loss to give the correct term) however skin health doesn’t just factor on one point but several others too. What Cherry Healey failed to mention was how factors such as weather, diet, hormones and the participants’ skin type, where our skin’s condition naturally fluctuates, would greatly affect the outcome.

By law, skincare manufacturers must sort the list of ingredients by weight in descending order. As you can see above from the three moisturisers selected by the study, the bulk of what makes up the formulations are low value fillers & comodegenic petrochemicals, with only two or three natural ingredients found much further down the list, indicating the amounts used are typically very, very low.

The 3 Moisturisers are very similar in composition, what the study tested were near identical products – is it surprising that the results were the same too?