Products for Dry Skin

Dry skin is caused by two factors. One is the damage to the skin's defensive barrier which produces excessive water loss through the skin. The other is an important diminution in the concentration of the skin's water-retaining sugar and protein molecules, the intricate proteoglycans and glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) molecules.
Many skin moisturizers and emollient products sold by the major skin care producers delay the healing process of irritated and flawed skin and make the situation worse by impeding natural skin repair. New computer instruments have demonstrated that many popular moisturizers augment skin damage in ways similar to skin irritants. Nor are skin barrier creams an answer, such as those containing petrolatum and lanolin.
What our skin requires 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 happen.
Most if not all the famous moisturizers and emollients currently sold by the major skin care producers contain elevated concentrations of detergents and detergent-like chemicals, despite many years of solid evidence that such detergents degrade the skin's innate defensive function and harm the skin. Also, many of the dyes and optical diffusers used to give the look of healthy skin are harming to skin.
Nature Treats Dry Skin Issues
Lipids and fats in the skin provide the epidermal defense to transcutaneous water loss. These lipids in the upper skin area called the stratum corneum are disposed in layers called lamellae. The lower skin layers have more typical fats such as triglycerides and phospholipids while the upper layers contain more ceramides, cholesterol and free fatty acids.
Waxes and oils seal the skin's surface and avoid excess water loss. Cosmetic moisturizers eliminate the skin's defensive barrier and hydrate (wet) the skin proteins but have the long-term effect of harming the skin.
A skin-care product is only as good as what it contains and how those ingredients can help your skin function 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 ingredients, and intercellular elements as they help skin keep a normal level of hydration, build collagen and avoid cellular harm.
Not the famous dry skin creams that have been in the market since the 1920's, when the cosmetic industry started to promote oil/water/detergent creams for moisturizing instead of the vegetable oils that had been employed for thousands of years. This was similar to the fallacious campaigns, we may all recall, that aimed to stop women from breast feeding their babies and promoted their replacement with artificial infant formulas sold for profit.

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