How it works
- Keeps your skin looking hydrated and dewy
- Helps bind water to the skin
- Protects skin from dryness
How to use it
Beginner: Add one tube to 4oz your favorite water-based cream, serum or spray, mix well
Quick Tips
Add NMF to your favorite hand and body lotion for a total hydation boost that will last. Hand and Body Lotion, Body Cream
Ingredients
Water, Sodium PCA, Sodium Lactate, Arginine, Aspartic Acid, Pyroglutamic Acid, Glycerin, Glycine, Alanine, Sodium Hyaluronate, Hydrolyzed Collagen, Serine, Valine, Proline, Threonine, Isoleucine, Histidine, Phenylalanine
Research
Robinson M, Visscher M, Laruffa A, Wickett R. Natural moisturizing factors (NMF) in the stratum corneum (SC).(2010) I. Effects of lipid extraction and soaking. J Cosmet Sci.61:13-22. PMID: 20211113.
Gunnarsson, M., Mojumdar, E. H., Topgaard, D., & Sparr, E. (2021). Extraction of natural moisturizing factor from the stratum corneum and its implication on skin molecular mobility. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. doi:10.1016/j.jcis.2021.07.012
E. Candi, R. Schmidt, G. Melino (2005) The cornified envelope: a model of cell death in the skin. Nat. Rev. Mol. Cell Biol., 6: 328-340, doi:10.1038/nrm1619
I.R. Scott, C.R. Harding, J.G. Barrett (1982) Histidine-rich protein of the keratohyalin granules: Source of the free amino acids, urocanic acid and pyrrolidone carboxylic acid in the stratum corneum, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) – General Subjects 719: 110–117. doi: 10.1016/0304-4165(82)90314-2.
