Hygiene and skin care
Hygiene and skin care
Skin supports its own ecosystems of microorganisms, including yeasts and bacteria, which can not be removed by the cleaning. According to estimates of the number of bacteria on the surface of a square inch (6.5 cm square) from human skin in 50 million but this figure varies on average 20 square feet (1.9 m2), human skin. Oily surfaces, such as the face, may contain more than 500 million bacteria per square inch (6.5 cm ²). Although many of them, all the bacteria on the skin surface will be the appropriate volume of the size of peas. In general, micro-organisms keep each other in check and are part of a healthy skin. When the balance is disturbed, there May proliferation and infection, such as when antibiotics kill microbes, so that in the proliferation of yeast. The skin is continuous with the interior of the epithelium lining the body orifices, each of which supports its own complement of microbes.
Cleaning the skin properly is very important, because unclean skin favors the development of pathogenic organisms. Dead cells that continually slough off of the epidermis mix with the secretions of sweat and sebaceous glands and the dust on the skin that forms a layer on the surface dirty. If not washed, the suspension of the sweat and sebaceous secretions mixed with dirt and dead skin decomposed by bacterial flora, the stench. Functions of the skin is disrupted when too dirty to be more easily damaged, the release of antibacterial compounds decreases, and dirty skin more vulnerable to developing infections.
Cosmetics on the skin should be used with caution because it can cause allergic reactions. Each season requires suitable clothing in order to facilitate the evaporation of sweat. Sunlight, water and air play an important role in maintaining healthy skin.
Oily skin is caused by over active sebaceous glands, which produce a substance called sebum, the skin of the skin in good physical health lubricant.When produced excessive sebum, it becomes heavy and thick texture. Oily skin, characterized by shininess, blemishes and buttons. [1] the types of oily skin are not always bad, since such skin is less prone to wrinkling, or signs of aging [1], because the oil is needed to help keep moisture locked in ‘epidermis (skin layer of ultra-peripheral).
Negative aspects of the type of oily skin, oily skin is very prone to clogged pores, black, and the accumulation of cells on the skin surface of dead skin. [1] oily skin can be dyed and the rough texture and tend to have large visible pores everywhere except around the eyes and neck.
The goal of treating oily skin is to remove excess surface sebum without complete removal of degreasing treatment of the skin may raise lipids.Severe over secretion of sebum, which is contrary to the objective the method cleansing.A clean oily skin is to clean the face with a cleanser made specifically for natural oily skin. If cleaners pH 4.5 – 5.5, because the skin around the pH value of 5.4. Gel cleaning the most effective on oily skin. (See: surfactant) have oily skin, very few products contain natural oils. They should not contain waxes or agents of lipid synthesis that could aggravate the oily condition of the skin. Tonic lotion should also be natural and have a pH of 4,5-5,5 and specially formulated to help balance and hydrate the skin greasy. Some cleaning products that are lower than the concentration of hydroxy acids that remove dead cells from the upper corneum.Those should be used regularly to work adequately. A lightweight moisturizer May be included in a hydroxy acid product to prevent drying due cleanser.People with oily skin should use a moisturizer with humectants and clay containing bentonite clay mask twice a week.