October 5, 2007

What Causes Dry Skin?

This question has troubled many. If you have dry skin, did you do something wrong? Is it harsh climate? Bad skin care products? Well the experts have put their heads together to give you a list of things thought to be responsible for causing your skin to go from normal to dry. What are these things?

As you travel along the road of life, your body goes through certain specific changes that modifies the way it processes nutrients, repairs itself, and fights foreign bodies. So it should go without saying that the again process has something to do with the relative dryness of your skin. It is said that as you age, your sebaceous glands go through a change. Your sebaceous glands secrete oils that keep your skin soft and moisturized. As you age, the numbers of available sebaceous glands in your body that provide oil begin to decrease in number. This is a natural process, but it leads to your skin not getting the oil it needs, thus developing a drier nature than it had when you were an infant.
Also as you age, different processes are taking place. Your skin begins to develop an inability to retain its liquid contents. […]

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