The 500-Dalton Rule: How Skin-Barrier Science Is Quietly Redrawing the Skincare Market
There is a number that increasingly decides whether a skincare product does anything at all, and most shoppers have never heard of it: roughly 500 Daltons. It is the approximate molecular-weight ceiling below which a compound stands a real chance of crossing the skin’s outer barrier. Above it, an ingredient largely sits on the surface,…