How Can Natural Skin Care Improve your Health?

Have you ever thought about what your skin does for you and how important it is to your health?

Having a daily regime and taking care of your skin can improve your health dramatically. The sole function of the skin is to protect you from the outside world. It behaves like a raincoat, acting as a factory producing vitamin D, sweat, hormones, oils, wax, pigments, all substances that we need. The skin eliminates and absorbs at the same time. It is a two way membrane that eliminates a number of harmful substances resulting from the metabolic activities of the intestines and liver.

The skin is a vary intricate micro anatomical structure, the skin is about as thick as a few sheets of paper. Within one square inch there are 650 sweat glands, 65 hair follicles, 19 yards of capillaries, 78 yards of nerves, and thousands of sensory cells, nerve endings and Langerhans cells for immunological protection. Also containing melanocyte cells and the tyrosinase enzyme responsible for producing the melanin, giving your skin its color.

Clearly the skin is a major factor in our health. It is very complex and we are still learning more and more about it everyday. By having a daily skin care regime we can help our skin in its natural processes of turning over skin cells and ridding itself of dead skin cells.

It is vital that the skin care products you use for your daily skin care regime are made up of natural and organic ingredients. Some scientists estimate that as much as 60% of what you apply to your skin reaches the bloodstream. As you can see the skin is very important to our overall health and by using all natural skin care products you can reduce your chemical exposure improving your overall health.