Thursday, July 27, 2006

Treat Your Skin Naturally With Natural Skin Care Treatments

Naturally, your skin is vital to your health. It helps regulate your body temperature, it absorbs and eliminates chemicals and acts as a protective barrier to often-harmful elements. Many of us may think good skin care means simply keeping it clean and moisturized, but skin requires much better treatment than that to be healthy.

Basically, good skin care begins with a healthy diet, hydration and sufficient rest. It is also essential to protect skin from the sun, harsh weather and toxins. As skin ages, regardless of environmental factors, it continually loses collagen; the main supportive protein of connective tissues, resulting in diminished elasticity and functionality.

Of course, there’s also the “beauty” factor of maintaining healthy skin. The importance of appearances is evident in our society, now more than ever.
Consequentially, the cosmetics market holds a plethora of skin care products designed to reduce the ill effects of aging and environment on the skin, as well as to remedy many common skin disorders. Among the most popular of these products are natural skin care treatments.

Why natural, as opposed to synthetic products? Well, the skin absorbs chemicals, whether they are natural or not. Natural nutrients are more easily utilized and eliminated by the body than synthetic chemicals.

With synthetics there is also a chance there may be toxins involved with the processing of them. Natural skin care treatments, on the other hand, are generally made up of herbal extracts, essential oils, and fruit extracts that contain naturally occurring substances.

Undoubtedly, having healthy skin means making healthy choices. Given the increasingly hostile environment our skin is exposed to, our longevity and value of appearances, maintaining a good skin care regime is certainly a good choice to make. Using only natural skin care treatments in your daily skin care regime is an even better one. By Jerrick Foo

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