Medicine
Skin Barrier Function and Topical Corticosteroid Potency Selection
Quick fact
A steroid cream that is 'super-potent' on the face can cause irreversible skin thinning, but on the thick skin of the palms it might be barely effective.
Why this is interesting
Your skin looks like a wall, but sometimes it lets in medicine like a sieve. Why does the same cream work wonders on one person's eczema but fail on another's?