Comments on: The Pros & Cons Of Using Glycerin In Your Skin Care Regime https://yourskinonline.com/the-pros-cons-of-using-glycerin-in-your-skin-care-regime/ Better Skin - Your Skin! Wed, 17 May 2023 13:31:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 By: Jana https://yourskinonline.com/the-pros-cons-of-using-glycerin-in-your-skin-care-regime/#comment-92041 Wed, 17 May 2023 13:31:40 +0000 https://yourskinonline.com/?p=3174#comment-92041 In reply to KAREN VAN DRASEK.

Karen, thank you for your comment! I finally found one confirmation to my suspicions about glycerine. I live in a usually very dry area and even more so in the winter when we have the heaters on. I was ill a couple years ago with an stomach bug where I got dehydrated rapidly and I got the most severe cramps in my calves, just where I had applied lotion. My thoughts were that if glycerine pulls moisture from the air, it would also pull it from our skin.

]]> By: KAREN VAN DRASEK https://yourskinonline.com/the-pros-cons-of-using-glycerin-in-your-skin-care-regime/#comment-13850 Wed, 24 Apr 2019 05:38:01 +0000 https://yourskinonline.com/?p=3174#comment-13850 Your statement is contradictory regarding the humidity level scenario, i.e., “One of its biggest drawbacks is that its only effective as a moisturizer when the humidity in the air is less than 65%. When it’s humid, glycerin will suck the moisture from the dermis, AKA the inner layer of the skin.”
This is a complete opposite from what they state on other websites. When the humidity is low (less than 65%), that is when it is NOT effective, since it draws moisture from the dermis, i.e., “In a dry environment, there is a process called ‘osmosis’ where the air will look for moisture wherever it can get it. Since glycerin pulls water from the deeper layers of the skin, when there isn’t moisture in the environment, it will come out of the skin and evaporate into the air.”

]]>