Shoppers Say Their Skin Looks "Plump and Hydrated" Thanks to This 30%-Off Moisturizer

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So-called barrier creams became a beauty buzzword a few years ago, their popularity coinciding with increased awareness of the skin barrier and its role in a healthy complexion. Healing, soothing, and formulated to bolster barrier health, aptly named barrier creams can prove particularly ideal in the harsh winter months, when dryness, flakiness, and irritation — often a sign of skin barrier damage — abound.

Avène, the poster child for soothing skincare, boasts arguably the best barrier cream of all, the Avène Cicalfate+ Restorative Protective Cream. Shoppers, many of whom struggle with rosacea and eczema, are shocked by its healing powers. Celebrities like Hailey Bieber — who uses the barrier cream to “calm and heal” her skin when it’s “angry and irritated” — are equally enamored.

Just in time to face whipping winter winds, the Avène Cicalfate+ Restorative Protective Cream is 30 percent off when you use the code REFRESH at checkout.

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The Avène Cicalfate+ Restorative Protective Cream is a rich, thick, fragrance-free moisturizer that hydrates, soothes, and softens even the most sensitive, irritated skin. Formulated with the brand’s signature soothing spring water, it’s also loaded with ingredients proven to heal, protect and strengthen the all-important skin barrier.

The skin barrier, aka the stratum corneum, is the outermost layer of the skin, and functions as your body’s defense against pathogens, pollution, and other negative environmental elements. In doing so, the skin barrier keeps the whole body healthy. Moreover, a strong skin barrier is the foundation of a soft, smooth complexion, partially because it locks in hydration and prevents what’s known as transepidermal water loss. As dermatologist Dr. Stacy Chimento M.D., previously told InStyle, “Your skin barrier…keeps the water inside your body that would otherwise escape and evaporate.”

On the flip side, a skin barrier that’s compromised — from harsh temperatures, over exfoliation, or certain conditions such as eczema — can render skin flaky, tight, and irritated, in both look and feel.

Avène’s barrier cream is specifically formulated for compromised skin, though it’s safe for virtually anyone, including babies. The formula contains postbiotics to strengthen the skin’s microbiome — a collection of good bacteria that are crucial to barrier health — plus the brand’s signature thermal spring water, sourced from France and soothing on all skin.

The formula delivers immediate relief, calming redness, smoothing roughness, and alleviating dryness. Over time, it actually heals the skin barrier, in turn, lessening the severity of symptoms associated with barrier damage.

Shoppers swear by the cream. According to one, it’s made their “complexion much calmer and healthier.” Another, whose skin is “extremely temperamental, hypersensitive” and prone to flakiness, redness, and dermatitis, says it's “great for helping restore [their] skin barrier.” Plus, they add, it “eliminates” redness, even on the most delicate areas of skin. Finally, says, one, it makes skin "plump, healthy, and hydrated." And isn’t that the ultimate goal?

For an indisputably soothing, healing face cream that supermodels and countless shoppers swear by, shop the Avène Cicalfate+ Restorative Protective Cream while it’s still 30 percent off. 

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