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Understanding Our Skin: Self Care

The skin is the body's largest organ that acts as a barrier to protect the internal environment while allowing the body to interact with the outside world. It is resilient yet sensitive. Proper self care is important to maintain healthy skin, which includes washing gently with mild products and moisturizing after bathing. Choosing cosmetics suited to one's skin type and taking care during shaving can prevent damage. Moisturizing is critical for good skin health as it helps maintain the skin barrier and keeps skin soft, allowing it to tan better. A quality moisturizer adds moisture and oils, with more oil needed for severely dry skin, and should contain vitamins like E and C that act as antioxidants.

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Understanding Our Skin: Self Care

The skin is the body's largest organ that acts as a barrier to protect the internal environment while allowing the body to interact with the outside world. It is resilient yet sensitive. Proper self care is important to maintain healthy skin, which includes washing gently with mild products and moisturizing after bathing. Choosing cosmetics suited to one's skin type and taking care during shaving can prevent damage. Moisturizing is critical for good skin health as it helps maintain the skin barrier and keeps skin soft, allowing it to tan better. A quality moisturizer adds moisture and oils, with more oil needed for severely dry skin, and should contain vitamins like E and C that act as antioxidants.

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Understanding Our Skin

Your skin is your body’s largest organ and it plays a vital role in maintaining your
health and wellness. It’s wonderfully resilient and can survive a great deal of
punishment. The skin is the body’s boundary layer, tough enough to resist all sorts of
environmental assaults, yet sensitive enough to feel the slightest touch. The skin creates the first line of
defense against possible invasion of bacteria and germs, while maintaining the body’s internal
environment within a few degrees of normal throughout our lifetime.

Self Care
When washing your face, use tepid (never hot) water and a washcloth or sponge to remove dead cells.
Use a mild soap. You may need to clean oily skin two or three times a day. In general, avoid
washing your body with very hot water or strong soaps  bathing can dry your skin. If you have dry
skin, use soap only on your face, underarms, genital areas, hands and feet. After bathing, pat (rather
than wipe) your skin dry, then immediately lubricate it with an oil or a cream.

Your Skin is Priceless


Match cosmetics to your skin type: An oil base is suitable for dry skin, and a water base is suitable
for oily skin.
· For women, remove eye makeup before facial cleaning. Use cotton balls to avoid damaging the
delicate tissue around your eyes.
· Shaving can be hard on a man’s skin. If you shave with a blade razor, always us a sharp blade.
Soften your beard by applying a warm washcloth for a few seconds; then use

Moisturize
Moisture is critical to good skin health because it helps maintain a good skin barrier and creates a
flexible, pliable skin that is soft to touch. Moist skin will tan better and more evenly.

Moisturize with Oil


A good moisturizer not only will add moisture to the skin, but also add some oils to the skin. People
with severe dry skin require a moisturizer with more oils than a person with slightly dry skin.

Moisturize with Vitamins


A good moisturizer will help replace the vitamins skin needs. Vitamin E, or tocopheryl acitate, is a
potent antioxidant that should be found in a good moisturizer. Vitamin C acts in
concert with vitamin E in a healthy antioxidant system.

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