Even a moderately flawed stratum corneum is a very unpleasant quality which often detrimentally affects the quality of life. An abnormal stratum corneum is dry, coarse, scaly, fragile, damaged, and many times prickly, provoking burning, initiating an itch-scratch vicious loop for which external rosacea solutions supply little relief. Superimposed on the typical symptoms of rosacea (inflammation, broken capillaries, papules or pustules) this irritated xerotic (dehydrated) skin feels and functions even worse as compared to if it were dry on its own.
Dehydrated skin in rosacea has many different unconnected causes, and is the premise of a vast skincare industry geared toward managing dry, rough skin features by making the surface layers soft, supple, and comfortable, agreeable to both sight and feel. Greater than 90% of adult women use ”moisturizers” every day for decades, extending into old age, when xerosis is both equally commonplace and acute.
A great deal of what we now understand about the consequences of faulty stratum corneum in rosacea derives from the far-reaching investigations of experts working for large, international aesthetic and skincare companies (who I would like to add receive inadequate encouragement and recognition from health care academicians). These companies have manufactured an amazing variety of beneficial products or services, including a small set of rosacea-specific moisturizers, such as this Rosacea Treatment Clinic Rosacea Cream, that bring relief from dehydrated, draw-out skin, regardless of the origins in rosacea.
Additionally, there exists an unpleasant number of genetic and congenital skin disorders in which derangements of the stratum corneum are considerably more acute and that may occur in conjunction with rosacea. Each of these unfortunates are sheathed in thick, fissured, extremely rough and scaly, aesthetically displeasing integuments which severely restrict daily activities, calling for enormous efforts to provide anything at all resembling a normal life.

It is apparent then that giant pharmaceutical enterprises and medical scholars have heavily to attempting to fully grasp the pathogenesis of these distressing disorders in rosacea. The payoff has been the development of a few systemic medications which can help balance and somewhat normalize this grossly dysfunctional stratum corneum, drastically enhancing the overall quality of life.