What is the 411 About our Skin?
Author: Joseph ConstantYour facial skin can be your best friend believe it or not. It is your comrade. Your skin is also you protector. Your skin takes all types of abuse either from extreme exposure of sunlight in the summer to the cold, blistering winds of the winter. Yet it is quick and ready to forgive. Your skin is a talented yet complex creation that you just cannot be duplicated by human beings so easily; not to say that it never will.
Our skin blocks out the harsh external environment, especially germs and bacteria, while it protects our vital organs. It helps to maintain our body temperature by preventing heat from escaping too quickly, which would lead to harm or even death. Our skin is versatile and sensitive. It reacts to stress, pain, illness, pleasure, happiness, and to light and dark, hot and cold. It stretches and shrinks, wrinkles and unwrinkles. It needs small but regular, consistent, and thorough attention if we want it to show us at our very best. For all of our skin's strength and versatility, today it is under attack. It is constantly bombarded and attacked by both natural and unnatural stresses that we may not even be aware of.
Believe it or not, where you live has a direct effect on your skin, mainly on your face. This is because you face is almost always exposed to the elements. Here is some background information on our face. Our face includes the upper and lower portion of our skin known as the epidermis. This layer is what we touch with our hands and see when we look in front of the mirror. Another name for this layer is the stratum corneum. Even though everyone has this outer skin layer, the thickness of the covering differs from person to person. African-Americans have more layers to their epidermis than do whites. Even among black people, the number of layers varies. It is easy to understand why our face reacts differently to the forces attacking it than others who are battling those same forces.
The outermost portion of the epidermis consists of dead cells. Many times after washing our face and drying our face with a towel, we may notice flaking skin on our forehead. Our face removes this outermost layer of skin in pieces. As the outer layer is taken off, an under layer takes its place. This is a renewing process that occurs as the cells multiply and divide. Each outer layer falls away when it has absorbed all the stress that it can manage; then the under layer takes its place. While this surface action is going on, the under layer is protected. The under layer is protected, waiting to supply your face with cells. Did you know that geography and climate have an effect on the outer layer of our skin?
If you live in a warm region like California, your skin will be affected differently than if you live in the east coast, in a climate that has four varying seasons. There is a difference in the amount of the sun and ultraviolet rays that will attack your skin, based on where you are located.
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