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Products for Dry Skin

By Expert Author: Nancy Hall | Article Abstract
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Dry skin is caused by two factors. One is the damage to the skin's protective barrier which produces excessive water loss through the skin. The other is an important diminution in the concentration of the skin's water-retaining sugar and protein molecules, the complex proteoglycans and glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) molecules.

Many skin moisturizers and emollient solutions offered by the major skin care companies delay the healing process of irritated and damaged 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 creams an answer, like those containing petrolatum and lanolin.

What our skin needs is to protect its surface and to heal the skin from the inside out, by putting the skin in a situation in which innate skin repair can happen.

Most if not all the famous moisturizers and emollients currently offered by the main skin care producers contain elevated proportions of detergents and detergent-like chemicals, ignoring many years of solid evidence that such detergents degrade the skin's natural protective function and harm the skin. Also, several of the dyes and optical diffusers used to give the look of healthy skin are harming 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 arranged in layers called lamellae. The lower skin layers have more typical fats like triglycerides and phospholipids while the external layers have 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 harming 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 substances as they help skin keep a healthy level of hydration, build collagen and avoid cellular damage.

Not the famous dry skin creams that have been in the market since the 1920's, when the cosmetic industry started to sell oil/water/detergent creams for moisturizing instead of the herbal oils that had been employed for hundreds of years. This was similar to the fallacious campaigns, we may all recall, that aimed to stop mothers from breast feeding their babies and promoted their replacement with synthetic infant formulas sold for profit.
Nancy Hall

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A new skin care product is our latest answer to erase scars and alleviate all kind of skin conditions. Elaborated with natural ingredients, it guarantees no allergic reactions and no negative side effects.

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