Description

What is Barrier Calming Cream?

SkinMedica Barrier Calming Cream is a restorative, noncomedogenic facial cream that helps soothe and fortify your delicate skin barrier to optimize renewal. Its intensely hydrating formula calms visible redness and irritation while delivering deep moisture, making it ideal for normal-to-dry, sensitive skin. If your skin feels dry, flaky, or reactive—especially while using retinol or after professional treatments—this cream helps restore comfort and balance.

Why is SkinMedica Barrier Calming Cream better than other moisturizers?

Barrier support and soothing hydration in one step
Barrier Calming Cream does more than moisturize—it works to rebuild your skin’s protective barrier. A nourishing Calcium-Strengthening Complex and Botanical Calming Complex team up to reinforce the barrier, quiet visible redness, and flood the skin with lasting hydration.

Clinically proven to reduce dryness and redness
In studies, Barrier Calming Cream delivered a 30% reduction in skin dryness after 4 weeks. When paired with retinol, participants saw a 40% reduction in dryness and a 31% reduction in visible redness after 6 weeks, so your skin feels calmer and more comfortable over time.

Your partner for retinol tolerance
Retinol delivers impressive results, but the adjustment period can leave skin dry and irritated. Barrier Calming Cream is clinically proven to help support your skin’s retinol tolerance by improving hydration and visible redness. In fact, 90% of participants said it rebalanced and calmed their skin after just 3 days of retinol use.

Formulated for sensitive skin
This gentle, noncomedogenic formula is cruelty-free, hypoallergenic, and pH-balanced. It’s made without parabens, fragrance, dyes, silicones, mineral oil, phthalates, and hormones—so it’s well suited to skin that reacts easily.

Multi-benefit simplicity
Instead of juggling separate products for hydration, calming, and barrier repair, Barrier Calming Cream delivers all three in a single, streamlined step—perfect for anyone who wants meaningful results from an easy-to-follow routine.

What’s Inside SkinMedica Barrier Calming Cream?

Barrier Calming Cream combines barrier-supporting lipids, soothing botanicals, and hydrating actives in a rich, comforting base:

Key technologies and complexes

• Calcium-Strengthening Complex – A nourishing blend of calcium and essential skin lipids (including phospholipids, sphingolipids, glycolipids, and glycosphingolipids) that work to restore and fortify the skin barrier.
• Botanical Calming Complex – A blend of soothing botanical extracts—such as coriander seed oil, willow bark, oat kernel, cucumber, and tomato fruit extracts—that help calm skin and reduce the look of redness while delivering deep hydration.

Hydration, vitamins, and soothing ingredients

• Humectants and conditioners: glycerin, panthenol (pro-vitamin B5), niacinamide, and glyceryl glucoside attract water and help comfort dry, tight skin.
• Antioxidant vitamins: ascorbyl palmitate (vitamin C), tocopheryl acetate and tocopherol (vitamin E), and retinyl palmitate (vitamin A) help support smoother, healthier-looking skin.
• Calming actives: bisabolol and stearyl glycyrrhetinate help soothe the look of irritated, sensitized skin.

What are the clinical results?

Barrier Calming Cream is backed by clinical testing:

• 30% reduction in skin dryness after 4 weeks of use.
• 40% reduction in dryness after 6 weeks when used with retinol.
• 31% reduction in visible redness after 6 weeks when used with retinol.
• 90% of participants agreed it rebalanced and calmed their skin after 3 days of use with retinol.
• 100% of participants agreed it reduced irritation and replenished their skin barrier when using Retinol Complex 0.5.

Clinical claims based on data on file at SkinMedica. Results reflect study participants and may vary from person to person.

How should I use SkinMedica Barrier Calming Cream?

Always follow your provider’s instructions and the product directions.

How to apply

When:
Apply twice daily (AM and PM) after cleansing, toning, and applying your treatment products.

Where:
Apply to your entire face, extending to the neck and décolleté if desired.

How:
Dispense one pump and gently massage all over your face until absorbed. In the morning, follow with a broad-spectrum SPF.

Insider tip
Pair Barrier Calming Cream with retinol or professional treatments to help improve tolerability and reduce dryness. For extra hydration on the go, layer with HA⁵® Hydra Collagen Facial Mist with Vegan Collagen.

A complete barrier protection routine

1. HA⁵® Hydra Collagen Hydrating Foaming Cleanser with Vegan Collagen
2. TNS® Advanced+ Serum
3. HA⁵® Hydra Collagen Hydrator with Vegan Collagen
4. Barrier Calming Cream
5. Essential Defense Everyday Clear™ Broad Spectrum SPF 47 Sunscreen

What’s the difference between Dermal Repair Cream and Barrier Calming Cream?

SkinMedica Barrier Calming Cream is formulated primarily to soothe irritation, strengthen the skin barrier, and improve skin tolerance to retinol, making it especially suitable for sensitive or reactive skin. In contrast, SkinMedica Dermal Repair Cream is an ultra-rich moisturizer designed to provide intense hydration and replenish dry skin. Barrier Calming Cream features essential lipids, niacinamide, calcium, vitamin E, and willow bark. Dermal Repair Cream includes hyaluronic acid, squalane, and antioxidant vitamins C and E. Choose Barrier Calming Cream for barrier support and calming, especially alongside retinol, and Dermal Repair Cream for richer moisturization and smoothing for normal-to-dry skin.

What are SkinMedica products?

SkinMedica is clinically proven skincare products designed to optimize your skin’s health and appearance. Discover a transformative skincare experience with SkinMedica.

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