Healthy Skin = Healthy Body

The epidermis is the body’s largest organ. You wash, tone, moisturize and exfoliate. You bath regularly and keep it out of the sun. But, If your skincare program is limited to the outside, you are only treating half of the problem.

The epidermis is responsible for releasing poisons from the body and even limits the immune system’s ability to keep a body healthy. It renews itself, hydrates itself, and helps keep you healthy, but it can only do that if it is healthy.
It is not hard to take care of your skin.

Vitamin A repairs skin tissue. Dry flaky skin may not need moisturizer, but more vitamin A. Fruits and vegetables are loaded with the A vitamin. Add tomatoes, cantaloupes, watermelons, peaches, kiwis, oranges and blackberries to your diet.
Antioxidants not only prevent cancer, they protect the skin from sun, smoking, and pollution, which reduces the signs of aging and skin damage.

Vitamin C is found in citrus fruits like oranges, grapefruit, broccoli, bell peppers, Brussels sprouts and leafy greens. Foods with vitamin E are some vegetable oils, nuts, seeds, olives, spinach and asparagus.

Zinc heals the skin and improves the immune system as you age. It works whether taken internally or used topically.” Food that contains zinc includes oysters, lean meat and poultry.

Water is vitally important to the skin’s health. It can hydrate the skin restoring the translucent look of youth to various degrees. It helps the skin restore itself. Last, it helps the immune system.

Caffeinated and alcohol work opposite to water. They dehydrate the body, making the skin appear dull. Water and fiber eliminate toxic.

Smoking narrows the blood vessels in the outer layers of skin. This decreases blood flow, depleting the skin of oxygen and nutrients, including vitamin A. This increases damage to the fibers and collagen, which gives skin its strength and elasticity.
One often overlooked aspect of skin care is bathing. Long hot baths with strong soaps, and even perfumed soaps, removes the oils from the skin, and can contain solvents that damage the outer layer of the skin.
It may be nice to bath with a perfumed soap that foams when used, but this may be damaging your skin.

Shaving can damage the skin. Shaving cream contains chemicals that can damage the skin. Soft soaps, when used in combination with new, sharp blades, reduces skin damage. Damaged skin cannot heal itself, help the body’s immune system, aid in eliminating contaminants from the body, and rejuvenate itself.

One surprising revelation is that the sun can help improve skin care and the immune system. The sun reacts with the skin releasing vitamin D, which has been cited as a cancer-fighting agent. However, too much sun, or not protecting your skin from the sun can cause cancer.

Skin care is one of the most overlooked aspects of health and well-being. Most people are unaware that it is not just a protective layer covering the muscles, but it is an organ like the heart, and like the heart, damage will result in sever health problems.