Winter is creeping in, in which case the drop in temperature and humidity can really zap your skin and it can feel a little ...

[41] It results from cutaneous injury by water absorption in the stratum corneum of the skin and it is seen more often in street homeless due to improper footwear, prolonged exposure to moisture ...

"Hydrating your face is about attracting water to the skin, especially to the top layer, or moisture barrier called the stratum corneum. Moisturising your skin is about re-introducing lipids and ...

“The key benefit of glycerin is that it hydrates the outer layer of the skin called the stratum corneum,” says Dr Nasir. “It works by improving the skin’s barrier function and forms a ...

If your skin’s been playing up recently ... ‘acid mantle’ basically describes the acidic nature of the stratum corneum (the outermost layer of the skin),” explains founder and medical ...

You have full access to this article via your institution. Other methods to mechanically disrupt the stratum corneum, such as skin stripping with tapes or glues 18, are painful and poorly ...

Seemingly paradoxically, the barrier function of skin mediated by the stratum corneum is vitally dependent on the `planned cell death' of upper level KCs. Thus, in order totreat cutaneous ...

Cornified scales of reptiles increased their capacity to live in terrestrial environments. The stratum corneum is very thin, with little keratin. Skin is used for gas exchange. Thick keratin layer ...

The stratum corneum of the vulvar epithelium—which can only be compared with facial skin— is the thinnest compared with all other anatomical locations of the human skin (2), which makes the ...