Natural Skin Care: An Introduction
Tuesday, June 8th, 2010
Beautiful skin is a expression of your life-style. It comes as a result of developing good eating habits, getting daily exercise and sufficient sleep, and by using a correct skin-cleansing system.
Your skin plays a very important purpose within your body. Thus, it’s important that you learn how to care for it so that it will stay healthy in spite of the climate you live in or your age.
In order to correctly care for your skin, it is important that you know something about its structure and purpose. With this insight, you will be better equipped to make decisions concerning how and why to care for your skin.
Skin is an unbelievably large and complex organ which is continually renewing itself. The ordinary square inch of skin has 650 sweat glands, 20 blood vessels, 60,000 pigment skin cells, and more than 1000 nerve endings. It is just 2 millimeters thick. However, it does a wonderful job shielding you from the outside world, keeping your body at a constant temperature, absorbing the sun’s energy and converting it into vitamins, protecting you from UV rays, storing fats and water, getting rid of wastes, and sending sensations.
Did you know that women use an average of 12 personal care products everyday? And men aren’t far behind. They make use of about seven in their daily routine. These products include soap, body scrub, lotion, face cleanser, toner, night cream, shave cream, after-shave lotion, sunscreen, makeup, and deodorant. Every substance you apply to your skin is able to either penetrate or affect its surface. So it is necessary to know what is coming into contact with it.
Numerous skin care products, even the professed natural ones, can contain unhealthy and irritating ingredients. Many persons have suffered allergic reactions or other problems because their use of these products.
But the good news is if your skin can absorb possible irritating or damaging substances, then so it can absorb extremely beneficial natural ingredients, which promote beauty and wellness. This is what this blog is all about.
This post is based upon:
Stephanie Tourles. Organic Body Care Recipes. North Adams, MA: Storey Publishing, LLC, 2007
Stephanie Tourles. The Herbal Body Book: A Natural Approach to Healthier Hair, Skin, and Nails. North Adams, MA: Storey Publishing, LLC, 1994
