For skin that can stand up to rough conditions, heal quickly and recover from flare-ups easily, you may need to focus on more than moisturizing . Instead, thinking about supporting your skin's resilience may be a helpful way to build — and stick to — a healthy, effective skin care routine.

Skin resilience, meaning the skin's ability to bounce back, is a concept that's popped up more and more on social media. And while skin resilience isn't an actual medical term, it does allude to concepts that dermatologists discuss with patients all the time, explains Dr. Nada Elbuluk, professor of clinical dermatology at the USC Keck School of Medicine, tells TODAY.com.

And it's a phrase that may help people better understand the maintenance of their skin so that it can "withstand stressors, like in

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