Products for Dry Skin
April 15th, 2008Dry skin is produced by 2 factors. One is the damage to the skin’s protective barrier which produces excessive water loss through the skin. The other is a great reduction in the concentration of the skin’s water-holding sugar and protein molecules, the complex proteoglycans and glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) molecules.
Many skin moisturizers and emollient products sold by the major skin care producers delay the healing process of irritated and flawed skin and make the situation worse by impeding natural skin repair. New computer instruments have shown that several popular moisturizers augment skin damage in ways similar to skin irritants. Nor are skin barrier products an answer, such as those containing petrolatum and lanolin.
What our skin requires is to protect its surface and to heal the skin from within, by putting the skin in a situation in which innate skin repair can happen.
Most if not all the popular moisturizers and emollients currently sold by the major skin care brands contain elevated concentrations of detergents and detergent-like chemicals, despite many years of solid evidence that such detergents degrade the skin’s innate protective function and damage the skin. Also, several of the dyes and optical diffusers used to give the look of healthy skin are damaging to skin.
Nature Treats Dry Skin Issues
Lipids and fats in the skin confer the epidermal barrier to transcutaneous water loss. These lipids in the external skin area called the stratum corneum are disposed in layers called lamellae. The lower skin layers have more typical fats such as triglycerides and phospholipids while the external layers contain more ceramides, cholesterol and free fatty acids.
Waxes and oils seal the skin’s surface and avoid exaggerated water loss. Cosmetic moisturizers loosen the skin’s protective barrier and hydrate (wet) the skin proteins but possess the long-term effect of damaging the skin.
A skin-care product is only as good as what it contains and how those ingredients can help your skin work better. In fact, moisturizers (or any skin-care product claiming to possess an effect on skin repair, wrinkles or sagging skin) should absolutely contain an elegant mix of antioxidants, cell-communicating ingredients, and intercellular elements as they help skin keep a normal level of hydration, build collagen and avoid cellular harm.
Not the popular dry skin products that have been in the market since the 1920’s, when the cosmetic industry started to sell oil/water/detergent products for moisturizing instead of the vegetable oils that had been employed for thousands of years. This was similar to the fallacious campaigns, we may all recall, that intended to stop mothers from breast feeding their babies and encouraged their replacement with artificial infant formulas sold for profit.
A new skin care product is our latest answer to erase scars and alleviate all kind of skin ailments. Made with natural ingredients, it guarantees no allergic reactions and no adverse side effects.
- Nancy Hall
