Healthy Skin

Taking Care Of our Skin

What Is Skin?

Skin is a thin layer of tissue forming a natural outer covering of the body of a person or animal.  Skin is the soft outer covering of vertebrates.  In mammals, the skin is the largest organ of the body.  Skin also varies from location to location an organism.  Skin located under the eyes and around the eyelids are the thinnest skin in the body.  Skin is very thick and hard on animals.  Skin is not a strong barrier to passage of chemicals.  Some mammals have some hair on their skin, even marine mammals which appear to be hairless.  Severely damaged skin may heal by scar tissues.  Skin of a different nature exists in amphibians, reptiles, and birds.  Without skin, all of the things in the inside of our bodies, would literally just fall out.   

Why Is Skin Important?

Skin is important because it keeps the germs away.  It also keeps the things inside human bodies, inside the human body.  Skin is very important to the human body because it protects everything in the inside of our body.  Skin protects all of our veins, blood vessels, arteries, and tissue.  Skin is also a waterproof covering that keeps you cool in the hot, and moderates your temperature.  The three layers of the skin are the epidermis, dermis and subcutaneous layer.   It's important to protect your skin from the sun; so you do not get skin cancer.  If you protect your skin, you will have less wrinkles and less freckles and beauty marks.  If the functions of the skin are not performed properly, it adversely affects the functioning of lungs, heart, stomach, liver and nervous systems in general.

How Do We Take Care Of Our Skin?

In order to take care of and respect your skin, first and foremost make sure to choose products specially designed for your skin type. Your skin is a living organ that constantly regenerates itself.  If your skin has a strong tendency toward dehydration, lacks oil, and has few breakouts if any at all, it is considered dry.  In more extreme cases, dry skin lacks and can be extremely sensitive to the sun, wind, and cold temperatures.  Wash your face once a day with a rich, creamy cleanser and warm water.  Some parts of your face ( eye contour, lips, etc ) have particularly fine, fragile skin.  Taking care of sensitive skin begins with make-up removal.  Sometimes, it may seem like your skin is impossible to manage, especially when you wake up and find a huge zit on your nose or a cold sore at the corner of your mouth.  

What Happens If We Don’t Take Care Of Our Skin?

What's the deal with washing our faces? Mothers seem to think it's important, but children (and some adults) don't really see what the big deal is.   As it turns out, our mothers' opinions on this matter are supported by doctors and researchers who unanimously agree that we should, in fact, wash our faces daily.   Not only that, but some of our mothers were actually sugar-coating the situation, because not only should we wash our faces daily, we should do it twice: once in the morning and again in the evening.  That seems like a lot of work, so why should we do it?  Because the world is gross and dirty. Your own skin is covered in a layer of dead skin cells, bacteria, pollutants, viruses and dirt.  Washing our faces not only gets rid of various antigens (tiny unwanted foreign invaders), it also provides our skin much-needed hydration.  If you don't look after your skin you won’t see a dramatic change now.  But when you're older you'll see the damage caused by not taking care of your skin.   Light can cause skin disease.  Not keeping skin hydrated can cause dryness.  Not washing skin cause spots, etc.

It is so important to take care of our skin.  Take care of your skin.