Panthenol is incredible good if your skin is irritated, inflammed and damage, I recommend this cream when you have a bad reaction or overexfoliate. I abused my glycolic cream (really good cream, but stupidly ambitious user jaja) and my chin breakouts horribly. I put this over a madecassoside cream (APIEU´s) and my skin recovers in three days. It calms the burning sensation and keep my skin moisturize and protected. Even without these conditions, is a very good occlusive sleeping mask for dry skin AND oily skin, is really heavy but not comedogenic, so don´t be afraid, it´s specially good at night in cold, dry weather.