Cleansing and Care

Skin cleansing and care is essential to maintain healthy-looking skin. Unsuitable products (e.g. with neutral or even alkaline pH) may disturb the natural function of the skin. Even prolonged exposure to pure water weakens the skin`s barrier and makes it vulnerable. It is important to select the right products for daily cleansing and care. Eucerin" products contain active ingredients which reinforce the skins protective and regenerative functions. Special vitamins and botanical compounds, selected lipids and natural moisturizers can even normalize disturbed skin functions.

Basics of Cleansing

Today's active lifestyles often require frequent body cleansing. Whether after sports or a hard days work, we take showers to relax, refresh and reinvigorate. Cleansing is essential to maintain healthy skin, but using unsuitable cleansing products disturbs the skin's natural functions.

Basics of Skincare

Medical skin care restores the unity of medicine and cosmetics lost in the middle ages. During this time, the unity of health and beauty was sacrificed for the benefit of purely scientific considerations.

Soaps, Syndets and Surfactants

Sumarian clay tablets from 2500 BC found between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers document the early usage of soap. Soap, the product of a chemical reaction between natural fats and alkaline lye, has some disadvantages, especially for sensitive skin. Soap scum forms and surfactants are inactivated when used with hard water. Carbonate salts are deposited on the skin hindering the restoration of oils, which makes skin raw.

Body Parts with Special Needs

Although exogenous factors such as temperature, wind, UV exposure and the penetration of aggressive substances adversely effect the skin, some areas of the skin, like the hands and armpits, naturally need more care.