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So - what is skin?

Your skin is very important!
Skin is a miracle overcoat. It's soft, flexible, washable, strong, waterproof, and repairs itself from small cuts, bangs and burns.
It covers and protects everything inside your body. It's the largest organ of your body and holds your insides together

Your skin:

• Protects your body. Your skin doesn't just cover you. It does much more. It functions as a protective coating. Along with a layer of fat underneath, it insulates you against weather, wear and tear. Unless it has a break in it, your skin keeps your body's fluids in and keeps water and bacteria out. It does this by manufacturing waxes and oils that act as a natural waterproofing agent and protect against germs. They also make your skin soft and pliable.

• Helps control your temperature. Your blood vessels, hair, and sweat glands, which are contained in the dermis, cooperate to keep your body at just the right temperature (around 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit or 37 degrees Celsius). If you become hot, your blood vessels release some of your body's heat by bringing warm blood closer to the surface of your skin. (You may sometimes become red.) Also, sweat glands release body heat into the air, the sweat evaporates from your skin, and you cool down. To keep your body from losing heat, your blood vessels narrow and keep the warm blood away from the skin's surface. You might get goose bumps on your skin. Special tiny muscles pull on your hairs so they stand up straight and trap a layer of insulating air.

   

• Provides you with your sense of touch. Skin is made of many thin sheets of layers of flat, stacked cells in which are blood vessels, hair follicles, glands, nerves, and sensory receptors. The nerve endings in your dermis work with your brain and nervous system, so that your brain can tell you how things feel when you touch them.

Remember to look after your skin!

Your skin likes to be clean. Be kind to the skin you're in!

Establish a daily skincare system that involves cleansing, moisturizing and protecting your skin. It’s important to maintain a balanced diet rich in vitamins, minerals and antioxidants, which fight off free radicals in the environment. Free radicals are unstable molecules that attack cells in our bodies and speed up aging. Together these will help the skin stay moist and healthy, repair itself and produce the enzymes that stabilize collagen production.
Also make sure you keep drinking plenty of water in order to retain further moisture in your skin. Get enough sleep. A few good nights’ sleep restores your complexion. Use a good night cream because research has shown that the temperature of skin rises at night, so that nutrients are better absorbed.

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Remember to be kind to the skin you're in!

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