Your baby’s skin is a protective covering against the outside world. It’s also a source of interaction, awakening and emotion connected with each of your baby’s senses. Since skin provides protection and aids sensory development, it needs specific care and your full attention from the time your baby is born. In order to give your baby’s skin the care it needs each day, you need to be able to recognize your baby’s skin type, fully understand the needs and use the right products for that skin type.
Recognizing normal baby skin
Normal baby skin is soft, supple and silky to the touch. It has no irregularities or obvious signs of dryness or sensitivity.
Understanding normal baby skin
Your baby’s skin is like all infant skin, which seems so beautiful and perfect but in fact it’s extremely delicate.
At birth, babies have an immature skin barrier. Your baby’s skin is highly delicate and vulnerable to daily outside attacks, and does not reach the first stage of maturity until the age of two.
Between birth and age two, a baby’s skin is not yet able to retain the proper level of moisture it needs for its cells to function properly.
A baby’s skin has an unsuspected source of strength at birth: a reserve of stem cells, unique for an entire lifetime, enabling skin to regenerate all the life, but extremely vulnerable and fragile until the age of 2.
The special nature of a baby’s skin compared to adult skin has been scientifically proven, thanks to an unprecedented Mustela research program spanning more than a decade that studied infant skin from the first days of life.
Addressing the needs of your baby’s normal skin
To fully address the needs of your baby’s normal skin, Mustela’s researchers have developed a natural active ingredient: Avocado Perseose. The perfect ally for babies’ skin, Avocado Perseose functions like a shield to protect it from outside attacks. It actively aids the development of the cutaneous barrier, helps maintain skin hydration level while protecting the skin’s cell reserves against everyday stresses.
A patented and protective natural active ingredient that’s the product of Mustela know-how, acting in perfect harmony with a baby’s skin and combining maximum tolerance with clinically proven effectiveness.
Moisturizing your baby’s skin from birth provides protection, sensory development and well-being, day after day. It’s a simple routine that’s scientifically proven to help your baby grow and develop properly.
Discover the line of Mustela baby-child normal skin products
Discover Mustela baby-child normal skin care products, a complete line of cleansing, hygiene and care products designed to protect the fragile, delicate skin of infants, babies and children day after day. Hypoallergenic products, tested under dermatological and pediatric supervision, that combine efficacy and tolerance with the pleasure of a unique scent.