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What is dry skin?

Updated on December 09, 2025
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A baby's dry skin tends to peel , feels rough to the touch, and is less soft. It needs to be protected and deeply nourished with appropriate skincare products.

Understanding your baby's dry skin


Your baby's skin is like all baby skin, so beautiful and perfect in appearance, but in fact it hides a great fragility.

The baby's skin has a Immature skin barrier . Very fragile and vulnerable to daily aggressions, a baby's skin will only reach a first stage of maturity around the age of 2.

Between 0 and 2 years old, a baby's skin is still unable to maintain a good level of hydration. yet essential for the proper functioning of skin cells.

The baby's skin has a Unexpected wealth: a unique stem cell reserve which allows it to regenerate throughout life. This cellular capital, which is at its maximum at birth, is extremely vulnerable and fragile between 0 and 2 years old.

The specificities of baby skin compared to adult skin have been scientifically proven thanks to a Mustela research program of more than 10 years on children's skin from the first days of life, unprecedented on a global scale.

Dry skin compared to normal skin

The baby's dry skin has a deficient lipid barrier and is more dehydrated than normal skin.
It requires very special attention.

Mustela researchers have discovered and scientifically demonstrated that dry baby skin is a structural skin type appearing in the first few days of an infant's life.

Addressing the needs of your baby's dry skin

To best meet the specific needs of your baby's dry skin, Mustela researchers have developed specific active ingredients: Avocado Perseose and a dermo-nutritive complex.

A true ally for babies' skin, Avocado Perseose acts like a shield, capable of both supporting the development of the skin barrier , and maintain hydration of the epidermis and especially of protect the precious cellular capital facing the aggressions of everyday life.
Because dry skin needs to be The skin is more protected and hydrated daily thanks to the dermo-nutritive complex. nourished your baby's dry skin in depth, restoring and protecting its hydrolipidic film.


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A patented natural protective active ingredient derived from Mustela's expertise, which works in perfect harmony with baby's skin, combining maximum tolerance and clinically proven effectiveness.

dermo-nutrition complex

Dermo-nutritive complex that deeply hydrates and nourishes dry skin.

Discover the Mustela dry skin range for babies and children

Discover the Mustela baby and child dry skin range , a full range For your baby's daily bathing, hygiene, and care. Mustela's dry skin range is designed for deeply hydrate, protect The fragile and delicate skin of infants, babies, and children, day after day. Hypoallergenic products with rich textures and with a unique fragrance, tested under dermatological and pediatric control, which combine efficiency And tolerance so that your baby's dry skin recovers candy And comfort .

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Avocado Perseose , a natural protective active ingredient present in all products in the new Mustela baby-child range.

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Dermo-nutritive complex present in all products in the Mustela baby-child dry skin range.

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