1 likePreventive corneotherapy, a term coined in the 1990s by Albert Kligman, M.D., Ph.D., is becoming one of the most important principles of treatment in advanced skin care. The object of corneotherapy, topical delivery of active concentrates through the skin, is skin barrier homeostasis. The ultimate development in the quest for understanding the stratum corneum is corneotherapy, focusing therapy toward correcting the defective horny layers.
Preventive corneotherapy, a term coined in the 1990s by Albert Kligman, M.D., Ph.D., is becoming one of the most important principles of treatment in advanced skin care. The object of corneotherapy, topical delivery of active concentrates through the skin, is skin barrier homeostasis. The ultimate development in the quest for understanding the stratum corneum is corneotherapy, focusing therapy toward correcting the defective horny layers.
Dr. Kligman, a corneobiologist, explains, \"Whenever you see inflamed skin, regardless of cause, the stratum corneum is leaky and permeable. But, if you repair the stratum corneum that tells the underlying tissues that they don\'t have to keep reacting like there\'s danger in the environment.\" Peter Elias, M.D., the world\'s leading corneobiologist, has also endorsed this outside-in therapy, according to Kligman.
\"Constant formation of the well-differentiated outermost layer of the epidermis and its orderly desquamation are necessar ...
