Shielding Lotion is a Skin Care Product,
Uniting Properties of Skin Treatment and Protectant.

Skin Structure:
When Protection Literally Means Treatment

Our skin is a natural protective shield that saves delicate interior organs and tissues from such environmental factors as sun, dirt and bacteria, regulates body temperature, prevents moisture loss. However, our skin, when left without proper care and treatment, still can become infected with bacteria, viruses and fungi; it can become irritated when exposed to chemicals or harsh weather.

The outermost layer of our skin, epidermis, is only about as thick as a sheet of fine paper, but it is what provides your skin with all of its barrier properties. It mostly consists of cells called keratinocytes, which form different sub-layers, stacking on top of each other. The epidermis is constantly renewing itself, as its cells develop at the bottom and rise to the top, where they exfoliate from the surface of the skin as dead cells. Cells of the outermost layer of epidermis are coated with humectants to keep them moist and flexible and surrounded by special lipids to control moisture loss. The outermost layer of the skin is also covered with a thin pellicle of sebum that lubricates your skin keeping it healthy.

Daily exposure to household irritants, chemicals, DIY materials, regular washings with hot water and soap, harsh weather as direct sunrays, heat, cold or wind, all these factors can remove natural oils from the surface of the skin leaving its deeper layers unprotected. With the natural oil stripped from the outer layer of skin, its natural moisture (water) quickly evaporates from the surface of the skin, turning it dry, irritated, and itchy. Dry cracked skin easily gets infected, the inflammation of the skin can, in its turn, become a base for such serious skin diseases as psoriasis and eczema.

Shielding Lotion:
How Does It Work?

Shielding lotion is an absolutely new concept in skin care. It's a skin care product that works with the body's own defenses, helping your skin act effectively to restore its moisture balance and protective abilities.

Shielding lotion seals the skin like a protective glove without clogging the pores and allowing the skin to breathe and perspire naturally. It bonds with the dead cells of the outemost layer of the skin, forming what works like an invisible shield that disallows irritating substances to penetrate the skin and prevents loss of skin's own natural oils and moisture. Acting this way, shielding lotion keeps delicate living cells of the skin protected and deeply moisturized that lets the skin the possibility to heal itself and restore its protective abilities.

Doctors recommend shielding lotion as a dry skin treatment, as a part of psoriasis and eczema treatment. Shielding lotion is able to provide protection from most gardening and household irritants, materials as glues, paints, paper, fabric, yarn and clay used in arts and crafts, is also helpful in gardening when you are working with dirt, grime, fertilizers and pesticides. Shielding lotions protect the skin from irritating influence of water and latex that can result in contact dermatitis (this disease is frequent amongst medical professionals).

One of the most winning features of shielding lotions is that they literally become part of your skin and do not wash or rub off when you wash your hands or touch something. The protection stays on even if you are swimming or taking a bath. The lotion comes off naturally as your skin exfoliates and just needs to be reapplied every 4 to 12 hours for continual protection.

Use of the Moisture Replacement Systems Weaken Your Skin's Own Protective Abilities. When the skin loses its ability to protect the body from pollutants, toxins and irritants, we are left exposed to all that bad stuff. Skin needs the natural oils and moisture it produces to be healthy, but with the stresses our skin is exposed to, these factors are often not present. Hand and skin lotions only replace natural oils with artificial ones. These only offer temporary relief that does little to heal the skin. Regular use of lotions can actually cause the skin to produce less natural oils.		Skin Care Using Gloves In A Bottle Shielding Lotion Helps Your Skin Start Working Properly Instead of attempting to replace natural oils, Gloves In A Bottle forms a web or bond with the dead skin cells that works like an invisible pair of gloves. This invisible pair of gloves helps reduce the natural oil and moisture loss allowing the skin to heal itself. Gloves In A Bottle helps the outer layer of skin to keep its natural oils and moisturizers that protect the deeper layers of skin, leaving the skin soft and supple.
PROFESSIONAL DERMATOLOGISTS find shielding lotions great for treating dry skin Daily use of conventional lotions (artificial moisturizers) can cause your skin to produce less natural moisture where it is really needed - below the outer layer of skin. And this is the only place moisture can resolve a dry skin condition. "When the skin gets this 'negative message' from artificial moisturizers, it can make it more difficult for the skin to heal," says Dr. Zogg. Research into this problem has produced a completely new type of lotion, called a shielding lotion, that's getting remarkable results. "A shielding lotion is far superior for treating dry, itchy skin because it bonds with the outer layer of the skin and replaces the protective barrier, keeping the irritants out and your own natural oils and moisture in," explains Dr. Helton.