Taking good care of one’s skin is more than just a matter of appearance. Did you know having strong, healthy skin can help you avoid diseases? We’ll show you how! The skin, as you may know, is our body’s largest organ and serves a variety of tasks.
External aggressions, infections, allergies, and poisons are all protected by the skin.
Maintains body temperature, protecting us from both extremes of cold and heat. Hydration helps in preventing dehydration and water loss.
It helps us to relate to the external environment thanks to sensory receptors.
If the skin is not healthy and in the right state to be able to fulfil these functions, certain diseases are more likely to appear. And when you already suffer from a chronic skin disease (atopic dermatitis) keeping your skin in good condition is even more important.
To maintain your skin to be healthful, you must take proper care of it every day and stick to a routine for both the body and the face. These behaviours will assist you in maintaining it in the finest possible shape.
Body routine
On many occasions, the skin of the body is forgotten within daily care. Do we wash? And it is. However, we do not take care of how or with what. In addition, the shower is the only step we take, forgetting to apply a product afterwards to moisturise and nourish the skin.
Hygiene
It is very important that for daily hygiene you use a product that cleanses your skin without attacking it. Soaps, in addition to removing dirt, impurities, sweat, dead cells, etc., also remove part of the sebum that forms part of the structure of the outermost part of the skin.
For this reason, you should not use cleaning products that contain active detergents, but rather opt for the so-called syndet or “soap-free” soaps that are much more gentle on the skin, providing extra-gentle cleaning and providing a sensation of extra hydration.
In addition, the products you use must maintain the pH of the skin at its proper levels. Classic and natural soaps, in general, have a basic pH, so when using them they raise the pH.
For the skin, a shower is preferable to a bath, and if it is not very long, better. It is also important that the temperature of the water is not too high, better to be a little warmer than very hot.
Hydration
During skin cleansing, even using a very mild product, part of the surface lipids and the protective acid mantle are always removed, so it is necessary to apply a nourishing and moisturising product after cleansing to help restore skin. balance as soon as possible.
As with soaps, we will look for products that, in addition to meeting the skin’s water and lipid needs, are not aggressive, repair the skin barrier, reinforce the saprophytic flora and calm irritation, in addition to maintaining the pH in adequate acid levels and that do not contain irritating active ingredients.
Face routine
The skin of the face is thinner than that of the body and is continuously exposed to the environment, which is why it requires even more continuous and delicate care.
