La Roche Posay Cicaplast Balm b5 To The Rescue For My Freaked-Out Skin Barrier

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Cicaplast Balm b5 is almost everyone’s favorite right now, its everywhere on TikTok, living rent-free on your feed. You have definitely seen skinfluencers smearing this one all over their faces like it’s some white liquid gold whether they are slugging for that glass-skin glow, caressing a damaged skin barrier, soothing bug bites, or dealing inflamed, irritated skin. Chances are that you might have come across this once in a lifetime.

And let’s not forget the iconic sebaceous filaments hack using Cicaplast balm b5. But it’s not all smooth sailing with this cream. While Cicaplast baume b5 has worked wonders for a ton of people, for a select few, it was more of a “meh” than a miracle.

My review of Cicaplast balm b5

I can say with confidence that Cicaplast Baume B5 is the real deal. This cream is made for dry skin, no questions asked. So before you slather it on your face, you need to know whether you are team dry or team oily. Because if you have got super oily skin, this one might not be your jam and trust me, I will spill the tea on why in just a sec.

According to La Roche-Posay’s own words, Cicaplast Bal mB5 is a soothing cream that helps hydrate and repair cracked and irritated skin. It is a non-greasy skin protectant that relieves dryness and roughness while also helping protect the skin from the harsh effects of wind and cold.

Ingredients

The key components in this formula include Panthenol (provitamin B5) for deep hydration, Shea butter to provide intense moisture, dimethicone for a smooth, protective barrier, and madecassoside, known for its skin-soothing properties.

Now some of you might complain about getting blocked pores with it, and the reason for that could be shea butter from the ingredient list. Shea butter is packed with oleic acid, a fatty acid that can be a dream for dry skin but a bit of a nightmare for oily, acne-prone skin.

Cicaplast balm b5 is not for oily skin

Our skin naturally produces oleic acid, but dry skin folks don’t make enough of it, which is why they are always feeling parched. So when you slather on Cicaplast Baume B5, that shea butter steps in like a hydrating hero, balancing things out. But if your skin is already on oil overload, adding more oleic acid is basically an open invitation for clogged pores. So if you’ve been noticing blocked pores after using this, this could be one of the reasons for that.

If you still feel the urge to slather this on but you have oily skin (because let’s be honest, sometimes we just need that soothing goodness) or you want to keep Cicaplast Baume B5 in your skincare stash, especially for after a skin procedure when our face is basically begging for some extra TLC, I personally believe that’s totally fine. Just make sure you are keeping up with exfoliation (tiwce a week for oily skin) to prevent any unwanted pore-clogging drama. Because the last thing you need is to go from post-procedure glow to uninvited breakouts.

Cicaplast balm b5 for dry skin

If you ask me, I got La Roche-Posay for two reasons. First, for my poor damaged skin barrier. My skin gets irritated and inflamed so easily, like, one wrong move and it’s throwing a full-blown tantrum. No matter how careful we are with retinol, our skin will freak out at some point. Mine sure did. So I had to get my hands on Cicaplast baume b5 and see for myself if its really worth it.

The consistency of La Roche-Posay Cicaplast Baume B5 is thick, rich and balm like. It’s formulated to soothe dry and irritated skin and the moment I squeezed it out of the tube and applied it, I knew it was about to work some serious magic on my dry skin. TikTok had already brainwashed me with endless glowing reviews on how it healed everyone’s broken skin barrier so this was my moment of truth.

Application

The application was definitely effortless and for a thick balm like this, it spread surprisingly well without much effort. Of course, I went in for a second layer, because I had a damaged barrier and I wanted to caress my skin with its soothing properties. And I’m not even kidding, after application, it felt like I had just revived my skin.

The next morning, I woke up, cleansed my skin, and braced myself for that dreaded post-cleansing burning sensation, but it never came. I mean, what just happened? I was literally shook with the instant results. I honestly can’t think of another product that delivers such immediate therapeutic results.

For context, I use a gel cleanser that suits my current skin condition, and even with that, I still experienced that post-cleansing burning sensation. That was a giveaway that my skin barrier was not okay and that I needed to fix the damage.

The second reason I got La Roche-Posay Cicaplast Baume B5 was for my post-laser survival mode. Because I walk out of the clinic looking like a full-on red tomato and that’s when you know you need something to calm your irritated skin. And no doubt, La Roche-Posay delivers in that department as well. So when I said this stuff is the real deal here and we are talking some actual real results, I was genuinely not kidding.

Final verdict

This is an absolute must-have for every skincare nerd, especially for those who have extremely dry skin or have damaged skin barrier. No matter how careful we are in our skincare journey, obsessing over every ingredient, following the perfect skincare routine, we still somehow end up messing up our skin in the process.

Whether it’s from increased cell turnover thanks to retinol or going a little too hard with exfoliation, we all work our skin up at some point. And that’s exactly where Cicaplast Baume b5 steps in like a true MVP, hydrating the skin and healing a damaged barrier like it was born for this job.

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