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Title: Simple Steps To Help Your Dry Skin
Author: Louise Forrest
Article:
Normal skin is kept supple by the skins natural production of
natural oils and water held within the cells. Oily skin is the
result of your skins oil glands working overtime. So, what is
dry skin?
Your skins natural oils create an effective barrier to keep
moisture in the skin and toxins away. When this barrier is
broken, moisture cannot be held within the skin as efficiently.
Age brings a natural breakdown to this barrier because our oil
glands do not produce as effectively as they once did, so aging
skin tends to be drier than more youthful skin.
Extremely youthful skin (like that of babies and young children)
is also prone to dry skin because the oil glands in this skin
have not been fully developed. Genetics also play a part in the
moisture level of your skin as can environmental factors like:
air conditioning, central heating, chemicals, detergents,
excessive water contact, soaps, sun, and wind. Of course, there
are many other environmental factors that affect your skins dry
tendencies, but these are the most common.
Dry skin is best alleviated through routine use of good organic
moisturizers or emollients. Lotions are usually not very
effective because they contain alcohols and actually result in
drier skin. Because many man made chemicals have a tendency to
irritate the skin and often cause further dying, we recommend
that you use certified organic moisturizers or moisturizers that
you have made at home, using organically grown ingredients.
Buying organic ingredients keeps toxic chemicals like pesticides
and man made fertilizers away from your skin. You may want to
check out some of the recipes we have in our Organic Skin Care
section. You should use moisturizers at least twice a day
(sometimes more often) and always apply moisturizer after
contact with water. This should be applied to damp skin in order
to help trap moisture and alleviate dryness.
Another good way to help your skin is to soak for 15 to 20
minutes in a warm bath that has 2 cups of magnesium sulfate in
it and apply a good moisturizer. The magnesium sulfate does
wonders for skins rejuvenative abilities and dead skin cells are
easily removed after such a soak. Magnesium sulfide also draws
toxins out of the skin, helping keep the skin free of irritants.
These characteristics combined with a good moisturizer create an
excellent combination for relief of dry skin. Soaking like this
3 times per week will help keep your skin free of toxins and
dead skin cell build up.
You should always use mild, non irritating cleansers. Harsh
soaps will only further dry your skin. For extremely dry skin,
you may need to use emollient soap substitutes, which cleanse
the skin without use of detergents. Do not be surprised to find
that your emollient substitute for soap does not lather. Because
of the lack of detergent in these, they will not lather but they
do cleanse the skin.
Bath oils are very useful in helping dry skin; bubble baths are
not. Bubble baths use detergent to create the bubbles and
detergents have a drying effect on the skin. Bath oils are an
excellent way to trap moisture from your bath close to your
skin, helping to alleviate dryness. When you get out of a bath
with bath oil, smooth your damp skin all over, then pat dry so
that you do not rub the oil off of the skin.
Take care with fragranced oils, natural fragrance is generally
non irritating, but many man made fragrances are irritating do
to man made chemicals in them. One example of a natural
fragrance which can be used in bath oils is lavender essential
oil, which is also very relaxing. However, essential oils are
actually concentrated extracts of a plants natural juices, they
are not necessarily oils, so the use of essential oils should be
for fragrance, not as a bath oil alone.
When choosing products, remember that thicker is generally
better for dry skin. Thicker products are generally able to stay
on the skin for longer periods of time, allowing a slow
absorption of conditioning agents into your skin. Moisturizers
and emollients should always be in a cream or ointment form for
severe dry skin.
By taking care in choosing skin care products, you can give your
dry skin some relief, but you should also consider your diet in
order to replenish fluids from the inside. Everything that we
have given you here is a form of relief to dry skin, but none of
it is permanent. To experience long lasting relief, you will
need to do it from the inside through the foods you eat and the
amount of water you take into your body.
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