Emollients

EMOLLIENTS

  • Emollients are bland oily materials that soften skin
  • Decrease transepidermal water loss and thus helpful in dry skin and cracked skin
  • Examples
    • Vegetable oils: Almond oil, Cotton seed oil, Olive oil, Peanut oil, Coco butter
    • Animal oils: Lard, Lanolin, Spermaceti (from sperm whale)
    • Petroleum products: Liquid paraffin, paraffin
Last modified: Thursday, 26 April 2012, 5:51 AM