
Ceramides are great for barrier repair and a little rare to find in formulations that aren’t heavy creams. In addition to those two great ingredients, Great Barrier Relief has several other great oils (in particular safflower seed and rosehip oils, good news for the acne-prone), Olivem 1000 (moisturizing, repairing, and soothing), several other good moisturizing and soothing ingredients, and Ceramide NP.
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Besides the Tamanu Oil, Great Barrier Relief also contains skincare superstar Niacinamide, which has a wide range of benefits for your skin including boosting collagen production, evening skin tone, and regulating oil production. One of the top ingredients is Tamanu Oil, a neat oil with strong healing and antioxidant abilities. Great Barrier Relief has a ton of great ingredients in it that help to shore up the skin barrier. That’s where Krave’s Great Barrier Relief comes in. Feeding the skin something nice and nutritious can help mitigate the damage, whether it came about from anti-acne products, too-harsh cleansers, sun damage, general neglect, or whatever. It breaks out in acne, overproduces or underproduces oil, becomes really sensitive or reactive, etc. When you damage the skin barrier, basically, your skin freaks out. That means a lot of “anti-acne” measures can backfire pretty dramatically. While exfoliation (especially with BHA, or salicylic acid) can help, too much of those acids and especially the harsh, oil-stripping formulas they come in ( especially those scrubs) damages the skin barrier. To a lot of people with acne, this will come as a surprise: the common wisdom is that acne requires exfoliation, and lots of it.

I’ve found myself recommending Great Barrier Relief (and a number of oils and other similar products) especially to people with acne lately.

And a compromised skin barrier means compromised skin health overall. Damaging the skin barrier is really easy: too much sun, too much scrubbing, too many exfoliating acids, environmental pollutants, and other factors can all lead to a compromised skin barrier. The skin barrier is the very top layer of your skin, which basically functions to keep bad stuff out and good stuff in. How could one skincare product address so many different issues? Great Barrier Relief’s raison d’etre is repairing the skin barrier.
