Skin-Identical Hydrators

Summary

Skin-identical hydrators, sugars like those the skin makes itself, used in our formulas to hold water. Its source is a review of these sugars in skin, which describes their water-binding role rather than testing a product on skin.

Water in the formula

Skin-Identical Hydrators sits in our formulas for one job: holding water in the skin. We file it under Hydration in this glossary for the job we use it for, and the evidence section below says how far its source goes.

Water in the matrix

The mechanism is the one stated in the summary above, and we have deliberately not extended it. Where a supplier or a competitor would reach for a bigger promise, the sentence we publish stops where the research stops.

Water in the evidence

Our source is a peer reviewed observational or laboratory study, recorded as Wang 2021 PMID 34548803 (review). You can read it yourself at PubMed 34548803. We grade that as background on how these sugars work in skin.

Water and its limits

The research behind Skin-Identical Hydrators studies the ingredient, not the finished Opuliss product it sits in. It is not a trial of our formula, and we will not present it as one.

Cosmetic claims describe how skin looks and feels. Nothing here is a medical claim, and nothing here treats a condition.