GLA Atipica

GLA Atipica: multi-tasking cosmeceutical comfort for dry, reactive, sensitised and intolerant skin types. Gerard’s famous line now comes with a new look and range of hypoallergenic and dermatologically tested products, improved and redesigned to:

• deeply hydrate
• restore the hydrolipidic barrier
• strengthen the skin’s defences from external aggressions
• minimise irritations, redness, flaking and itching
• repair damaged skin

WHAT ARE THE FEATURES OF THIS SKIN TYPE? It is generally hypersensitive, easily reddened, itching, flaking, irritated and extremely dry. It is usually thin and is common in skin’s phenotypes 1 and 2 (fair skin), but also in children, elderly and men, especially after shaving. This skin has lost its self-protective functions and its health condition can worsen into pathological diseases, of medical competence, such as couperose, psoriasis and dermatitis. This skin is intolerant and reactive: it is easily affected by external factors (sudden changes of temperature, especially cold, wind, smog, UVA-UVB rays, parabens and allergenes) and internal factors (constitutional factors, stress, frenetic life style). All these factors together change the skin’s protective hydrolipic film, compromising its natural immunologic ability and promoting the formation of free radicals, and therefore oxidation and cell’s aging. The main factor to restore, and from which the line was named, is GLA (Gamma-Linolenic Acid), found in Borage and Perilla oil, an essential fatty acid rich in Omega 6: a fundamental element for the regenerating processes of the cell’s membranes and for the renewal of the cutaneous tissues, to reduce inflammatory reactions and strengthen the skin’s immune defences.