Talk:Moisturizer

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Moisturizers are also in use for food, medications, or other uses in cosmetics. Cacycle 15:12, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)


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[edit] cellulitis or cellulite in this sentence?

the addition of vitamins (A, B, C, D and E), [...]add to the moisturizer the capability to treat several skin conditions such as cellulitis, (or Cellulite??)

[edit] Structure

  • This article seems a mess:
    • too much description of terms used, which have their own WP entries
    • Moisturizers do not "impart" hydration to skin, they provide barrier preventing loss of the skin's own water
    • Mechanism of action is mostly about the physiology of the skin, not the Occlusive, Humectant or Keratolytic actions
    • Composition is muddled by not having the major categorisation being Occlusive, Humectant or Keratolytic
    • Cosmetic (de-wrinkle, anti-aging) neads clearer separation.
  • Moisturisation is almost synonymous with Emollient which whilst a much tighter format is rather a stub.
    • I was initially tempted to just merge the two together, but they are not quite the same thing.
    • Could I suggest a partial mix, puting the physiology and more factual bits under 'Emolient' (a more medical term) and leave the more cosmetic parts (Vitamin A, cellulite etc) under 'moisturiser'.

Please add comments below and I'll then try a consensus edit (its a transfer/rewrite of the two articles) - pages could always be reverted, but I would rather not tread on the toes of previous editors and get it about right the 1st time. -David Ruben 18:14, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

"Could I suggest a partial mix, etc etc..." Agree, since you seem fairly knowledgable on this theme. Dr Gangrene 19:25, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

  • I will tidy this up a bit as well. Correct a few bits and move things between here and the related pages (lotion,emollient Skin cream for starters. My plan is to make this page the cosmetic (non drug) page, in contrast to the cream (phamacetical) page. By the way emollient is not a synonym for moisturiser. Emollient is one of the ingrediants in a moisturizer. And moisturizers do impart moisture to the skin because as well as containing barrier ingredients, they contain humectants such as glycerine.Obina 23:18, 27 December 2005 (UTC)


  • I think including a *brief* description for many of the terms associated with moisturizers is in fact beneficial. If a reader has no understanding of these then he has no hope of following the discussion. True, one could look up the terms at their own wiki pages, but this is tedious, time-consuming, and often provides more information than desired for an overview of a topic such as moisturizers. tekito, February 18 2005

[edit] Mechanism of action

This part of the article does not actually discuss how exactly the moisturizers work, only where the water is kept and how we lose it (NOT how moisturizers help to keep it inside). This seems to be oddly off-topic.

I'm no expert on the field, so I won't make any changes in this section, but maybe some better versed in the cosmetic industry should make some amends there?

[edit] Make it a stub?

Should somebody make this article a stub? It seems fairly incomplete to me... Uzaiyaro 12:10, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

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