Our skin is a very delicate body organ. It gets irritated and can throw a temper any time at the slightest irritation that comes upon it. Each year, more than 50-70% of women say they suffer from dry sensitive skin. Why is our skin so intolerant? What can we do to alleviate ourselves from this skin misery?
The problem arises for dry sensitive people because the blood flows to their skin increases when the skin gets unbalanced. Our body creates a protein called histamine which is present in irritated areas. In most cases, the outer layer of our skin, the stratum corneum starts to weaken, resulting in water loss from the skin. Thus, that’s why you will feel your skin getting drier.
To care for dry sensitive skin types, you need to firstly make sure that your protect your skin’s barrier function from further disturbance. After that, you need to find some means to increase the skin’s defence against potential irritants from coming into contact with your skin.
You should also start monitoring for possible skin care products or foods that could be the resultant for your skin to get upset.
Here’s some tips for you to follow when it comes to caring for your dry sensitive skin.
- Choose only skin care products that are made especially for sensitive skin. Other normal products may be too harsh for your skin.
- Use gentle and mild skin cleansers than acidic solutions.
- Protect further damage of your skin’s strata corneum from UV rays by applying a sunblock.
- Do not use toners as it can strips your skin off essential oils which your skins needs.
- Use a gentle alpha hydroxyl acids product to help your skin to retain moisture.
Jerrick is the author of Dry Skin Care Guide.com – a self-help site for skin care sufferers.
http://www.dry-skin-care-guide.com/
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