Healthy skin naturally repairs itself. But even healthy skin can experience flare-ups of dry skin, which is the skin's way of signalling that its normal moisturisation processes are under severe pressure. Vaseline Intensive Rescue Relief & Repair Balm's higher combination of moisturising ingredients works quickly to help relieve the symptoms of severe dryness. It promotes the ideal long-term environment for even severely dry skin to naturally repair itself within five days.
Key ingredients:
| Petrolatum – acts as an occlusive and locks moisture in |
30% |
| Glycerin – acts as a humectant helping skin repair itself |
12% |
| Dimethicone – works as an emollient ingredient and softens skin |
7.5% |
Ingredients
Water, Petrolatum, Glycerin, Cyclopentasiloxane, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Isopropyl Palmitate, Stearic Acid, Glycol Stearate, Sodium Hydroxypropyl Starch Phosphate, Peg-100 Stearate, Cetyl Alcohol, Glyceryl Stearate, Ethylene Brassylate, Disodium EDTA, Potassium Hydroxide, Phenoxyethanol, Methylparaben, Propylparaben
How it Works
Some parts of our skin suffer more than others, resulting in a flare up of dry skin which can become uncomfortable. . Elbows, knees and other areas can require intensive spot treatment and special care. Vaseline Intensive Rescue Relief & Repair Balm - the most powerful and efficacious product in the entire range - offers immediate relief through skin hydration and long-lasting moisture protection, ensuring that the skin stays hydrated.
Vaseline Intensive Rescue Relief & Repair Balm is formulated with an ideal balance of glycerin and occlusives (specifically, Vaseline petroleum jelly) which helps very dry skin to begin repairing itself within five days.
Instant Relief
Vaseline Intensive Rescue Relief & Repair Balm contains 12% glycerin, which is the ideal ingredient for the relief of dry and uncomfortable skin. Glycerin actively hydrates the cells pulling moisture deep into the stratum corneum while softening the skin and easing the tight feeling dry skin can cause. Moisture hydration is one of the core stages of relieving the skin of extremely dry spots.
Long-lasting Care
Vaseline Intensive Rescue Relief & Repair Balm is formulated with 30% Vaseline petroleum jelly. This high concentration of occlusives helps protect skin from further water loss, forming a protective barrier over the surface of the skin working much in the way of natural skin lipids by filling in the gaps between the cells to hold in the natural moisture of the skin, and helping create the ideal environment for dry skin to begin the natural repair process.
To measure the effectiveness of Vaseline Intensive Rescue Relief & Repair Balm, Vaseline scientists utilised a SKICON Skin Hygrometer to measure the hydration of the skin. After four days of continued use of Vaseline Intensive Rescue Relief & Repair Balm, the baseline line moisture level of the skin has been effectively raised this is due to the glycerin rich formulation combined with highly effective occlusives.
To follow up these results and to understand the patient relevance the Vaseline scientists measured skin's visual dryness grade after five days of use. A grade of 4 indicates severely dry skin, and any measurement between 0 and 1 indicates normal skin. After using Vaseline Intensive Rescue Relief & Repair Balm for five days, skin's mean visual dryness falls below 0.5 - the minimal level of dryness perceptibility. This means that the signs of very dry skin have improved and that skin looks more moisturised and healthy over time. The improvement of visible dryness is an important factor to any patient and will encourage the regular use of moisturising products for their dry skin.
The balm formulation was also tested using both Skicon and Corneometer tests under harsher conditions over a two week period and a two day regression phase. With less than two weeks of consistent use, the test shows that very dry skin once again becomes healthy through moisturisation Vaseline Intensive Rescue Relief & Repair Balm effectively delivers instant relief to the toughest areas of dry skin and skin flare-ups, and provides the ideal environment for even severely dry skin to repair itself within five days.
Vaseline Intensive Rescue Relief & Repair Balm effectively delivers instant relief and long-term repair to the toughest areas of dry skin and skin flare-ups, and provides the ideal environment for even severely dry skin to repair itself within 5 days.
Also to understand the efficacy of the Vaseline Relief & Repair balms formulation, we have tested against a well known UK dry skin brand E45.
Relief and Repair Balm - Performance
Over 24 hours, Vaseline Intensive Rescue Relief & Repair Balm delivers a higher level of moisture to the most difficult areas of dry skin. The Formulation contains the 3 main components needed for dry skin to repair itself, Humectants, Occlusives and Emollients. The combination of the three helps the Relief & Repair Balm outperform other dry skin lotions.
