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Save Skin By Treating Your Skin With Care

Posted on 12. Nov, 2009 by Cheri Cheesecake in Women's Health

The skin is the largest organ of the body. It has the most important job of protecting all internal organs, not only by holding them in place but keeping infections out. The skin has not only such an important duty but it also has the ability to heal and repair when needed. It is also known that your skin is the first signal that can indicate that something may be happening on the inside of your body. These should be enough reason to take the best care possible of your skin.

Now that you know the basic reasons why your skin is such an important organ, you really need to take a deeper look into how much exposure and damage that happens daily to it. With each new day, your skin is exposed to many environmental elements such as sun, wind, heat, cold, smog and water. Now you might be thinking that these elements do not sound so bad but in fact they can be very bad for your skin. They will dry out your skin by removing natural moisture, oils and replacing them with toxins.

You may know already that your skin is made up of billions of skin cells but what you may not realize is that as your body is making up new skin cells you also lose skin cells. It’s natural to lose dead skins but when you expose your skin to damage like UV rays you speed up the death of skin cells and you damage deep skin cells which result in the skin sagging and ultimately develops into wrinkles.

Turn on the television today and you are bombarded with infomercials and commercials for skin care products that promise to erase wrinkles or get rid of acne. Although there are many great products out there that do work very well, there are many more products that do not work. Many of these products now contain herbs where even 50 years ago it wasn’t really common to find natural herbs in facial cleansers and moisturizers.

We are not the first generations to use herbal products on our skin. in fact it was discovered that the Egyptians in 3000 BC first used fenugreek and roses on their skin to ward off wrinkles. A common herb found in many skin care products is Aloe Vera. Aloe Vera is a very much loved herb because it has anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial and immune-stimulating properties.

Many people have a general idea that you should take care of your skin and they do so by occasionally lathering up with a sunscreen or washing their face with soap and water. Washing with soap and water is much to harsh on the skin. You need to use a product that is gentle enough for your face. I am not going to go over how important sunscreen use is but you should be using a daily sunscreen on your face and neck. It can be in the form of a daily moisturizer that contains SPF, a tinted moisturizer with SPF, makeup such as cover-up that uses SPF or sunscreen alone.

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