Take Care of Your Skin Daily
You're not about to compromise when it comes to caring for your skin and your family's skin. And we're ready to meet this challenge! For more than 75 years, our research teams have developed unique and globally recognised knowledge of the physiology of babies' skin from birth.
Yes, babies' skin is soft, but more than anything it is fragile and still developing. This is what our EV.E.I.L.S. programme (EValuation of Early Infant Life / focus on Skin) reveals — a first-of-its-kind scientific study on a global scale, which made three major discoveries about the development of infants' and toddlers' skin.
Immature skin
A skin barrier that is still fragile. Babies' skin is more permeable and less well armed against external stressors. Its precious and unique cellular capital for life is present from birth, but it is particularly vulnerable during the first two years. It is therefore essential to protect it from the very first days.
Baby skin dehydrates more quickly
At birth, it is less able to absorb and retain water, so it becomes dehydrated more easily and faster than adult skin.
4 baby skin types
There are 4 skin types with different characteristics: normal, dry, very sensitive and eczema-prone skin. This discovery has enabled us to guide the design of Mustela products with specific active ingredients perfectly suited to each skin type.
The different skin types
Normal Skin
This is the famous "baby skin" we so often hear about — supple, soft and comfortable. And yet it is permeable to external agents (pollution, bacteria, pollen) and constantly becomes dehydrated. During the first two years, it is essential to moisturise and protect it every day.
Dry Skin
Eczema-Prone Skin
Very Sensitive Skin
Mustela has filed 14 patents and published 86 scientific publications for the EV.E.I.L.S. programme since 2006
An innovative research methodology on reconstituted skin
Unique to our brand, we have reconstructed patented models of baby skin at various ages under the name Stelaskin®.
Thanks to this innovation, we can conduct in-depth studies of different skin types, gain a better understanding of the effects of certain skin stressors, and evaluate and test our future products on these reconstituted skin models.
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