Understanding Your Skin
Understanding your skin will help you to better treat your acne. Did you know that your skin is the largest organ of your body? Well it is and it serves as a big cover to enclose the rest of your body so that it doesn’t leak out. Everyone wants to have a beautiful and clear skin and so the onset of acne is a terrible distress.
Your skin is a very complex organ that is constantly changing every minute of the day. Your skin cells are in a constant equilibrium. This means when old cells die they are shed and replaced by new ones. Your skin reflects your general state of health, and protects you against the invasion of foreign infections and toxins. It also allows your body to pass the toxins that inevitably congregate inside it to be passed to the outside safely and efficiently. So, your skin is definitely worthy of a great deal of care and attention.
Why Is Your Skin Dry?
The true skin - the layer below the outer skin – contains lymphatics but the outer skin does not. The true skin, therefore, is 'the final destination for the lymph-express'; redundant and damaged protein ends up in the true skin.
This excessive protein attracts water from the lymph, the blood, from cells close by, and from the outer skin. Too much protein in the true skin therefore dehydrates the outer skin.
The same is true of moisturizers that moisturize too actively (those containing chemicals that force the true skin to hold more moisture). These 'miracle-see-your-wrinkles-disappear-in-one-night creams' contain substances with high water-attracting properties to make the face swell slightly. Thus the wrinkles will be less visible. Creams for dry skin function according the same principles. That is why women can get an even dryer skin by applying a cream 'for the dry skin' since these creams contain substances that cause accumulation of water in the true skin, attracting and drawing water from the outer skin.
They eventually make your skin sag and accelerate the aging process by causing dehydration of the outer skin. If the outer skin cells dehydrate, these cells die sooner. Of course new cells take their places, but there is a fixed limit to how many times any cells in our body can multiply. Therefore, dehydration also accelerates aging of the skin. The faster the outer skin cells have to regenerate, the more aging is accelerated and wrinkles prematurely appear. Just take a look at those people who forcefully maintain a tanned skin; they look so much older than they are. The same applies to people who scrub their skin too often, or who apply too harsh peelings.
When does my skin contain too much moisture?