Ingredients In Skin Moisturizers

Ingredients In Skin Moisturizers

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Dry skin is caused by 2 factors. One is the damage to the skin's defensive barrier which yields excessive water loss through the skin. The other is a great diminution in the concentration of the skin's water-holding sugar and protein molecules, the complex proteoglycans and glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) molecules.

Many skin moisturizers and emollient products offered by the major skin care companies delay the healing of irritated and flawed skin and make the situation worse by inhibiting biological skin repair. New computer instruments have shown that many popular moisturizers augment skin damage in ways similar to skin irritants. Nor are skin barrier products an answer, like those containing petrolatum and lanolin.

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

Most if not all the famous moisturizers and emollients currently offered by the main skin care producers contain high concentrations of detergents and detergent-like chemicals, despite many years of sound evidence that such detergents degrade the skin's natural defensive function and harm the skin. Also, many of the dyes and optical diffusers used to give the appearance of healthy skin are damaging to skin.

Dry Skin Treated Naturally

Lipids and fats in the skin confer the epidermal barrier to transcutaneous water loss. These lipids in the upper skin area named the stratum corneum are disposed in layers named lamellae. The lower skin layers have more typical fats like triglycerides and phospholipids while the upper layers contain more ceramides, cholesterol and free fatty acids.

Waxes and oils seal the skin's surface and prevent excess water loss. Cosmetic moisturizers eliminate the skin's defensive barrier and hydrate (wet) the skin proteins but have the long-term effect of damaging the skin.

A skin-care product is only as effective as what it contains and how those ingredients can help your skin work better. In fact, moisturizers (or any skin-care product claiming to have an effect on skin repair, wrinkles or sagging skin) must absolutely contain an elegant combination of antioxidants, cell-communicating components, and intercellular elements as they help skin keep a normal level of hydration, build collagen and prevent cellular harm.

Not the famous dry skin products that have been in the market since the 1920's, when the cosmetic industry begun to promote oil/water/detergent products for moisturizing instead of the herbal oils that had been used for thousands of years. This was similar to the fallacious campaigns, we may all remember, that aimed to stop women from breast feeding their babies and encouraged their replacement with artificial infant formulas sold for profit.


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