Most people think dry and dehydrated skin are the same. In reality, they're completely different concerns that require distinct care. Knowing the difference can ensure you're choosing the right products to address your skin's needs with precision.
Understanding the Difference:
DRY SKIN |
DEHYDRATED SKIN |
| Flakiness or rough texture | Dull, lacklustre complexion |
| Premature fine lines and wrinkles due to lack of oil | Fine lines or wrinkles exaggerated by facial movements |
| Irritated or inflamed skin | Prone to sensitivity |
| Peeling | Tightness, or a shiny appearance lacking suppleness |
In this video, our founder unpacks how to identify whether your skin is dry or dehydrated—and why the distinction is essential for selecting the right products for your routine.
DEHYDRATION TEST
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Let's do the dehydration test. So grab your knuckle or the back of your hand and hold up the skin. See what happens. Does it snap back down or does it stay up? If your skin snaps back down, that means that you're quite adequately hydrated and your skin is nice and plump and full of moisture. If it stays up, it is a sign that your skin could be dehydrated.
So one of the common things that we see in the beauty industry is a common misconception between what dehydrated skin is and what dry skin is. So how do you know? How do you know if you've got dry skin? And how do you know if you have dehydrated skin?
DRY SKIN
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Because often the signs and symptoms can be quite similar and there can be mistaken for one or the other. So dry skin, what you might be seeing is skin that's prone to sensitivity, redness. You might also be seeing rough, flaky texture. I certainly had this a few years ago. The skin's more prone to dehydration. What you'll be noticing is skin that's more prone to fine lines and wrinkles because of the lack of moisture, plump hydration within the skin. And you might also notice a tightness, a feeling of discomfort.
COLLAGEN PROTECT
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So what dry skin is really crying out for is a really high quality, very lightweight oil. Not an oil that's occlusive that's gonna make the skin break out, but a really nourishing protective, antioxidant-rich oil. So in our collagen protect age defying oil, we have the superstars, we've got sea buckthorn in there, chia seed oil, marola fruit. We've got seaweed in there. We have grape seed oil in there. This is a very, very antioxidant rich oil that's known for its skin-protective hydration. We've also got Italian certified coffee bean seed extract in there.
Now this brings beautiful, fresh oxygen to the skin, helping to clarify what dehydrated skin tends to lack is that plump, that bounce, that springiness to it. What the skin type requires is a really great insertion of hyaluronic acid and peptides and really skin-hydrating properties.
A powerful concentration of multi-active golden kelp,
dual-action fatty acids and 20 dynamic botanicals
to restore collagen, repair the skin barrier
and deliver deeply hydrated skin.
COLLAGEN JELLY
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So within our Collagen Jelly Peptide Serum, which you all know by now is my ride or die, cannot live without that product. We've got incredible product in there that helps to draw moisture into skin. And not only that, it's there to lock it in place.
So we've got beet amino acids, multi molecular weight, hyaluronic acids. These work on different layers of the skin to really pull water and bind water into the skin cells and then lock it in place. Preventing transdermal water loss and providing dehydrated skin with really great luminosity that really does last a day.
Delivers cushiony collagen hydration in a 100% clinically
proven active and clean formulation. Multi-tasking multi-molecular
weight hyaluronic acid and collagen peptide jelly-serum
visibly plumps and firms the skin.
