Some common misconceptions about skin and its Health

Some common misconceptions about skin and its Health

November 20, 2013

There are hundreds or even thousands of evidences throughout the world that proves that people, even highly educated ones are at great misconception in understanding the true nature of our skin. People of all age groups, especially women are so much desperate for having a skin of highest tone, that they get attracted very easily towards the products advertised in a beautiful way. In this article we will be throwing a light on the misconceptions about the skin and will be providing the guidance along the way:

Sunlight – harmful or beneficial:

The importance of the due exposure of the body to daylight or sunlight cannot be too strongly insisted on. Light and warmth are powerful agents in the economy of our being. The former especially is an operative agent on which health, vigor, and even beauty itself, depend. Withdraw the light of the sun from the organic world, and all its various beings and objects would fall short of and gradually lose those charms which make it so attractable. So powerful is daylight, so necessary to our well-being, that even its partial exclusion, or its insufficient admission to our apartments, soon bring with it the feeble health, the liability to the attacks of diseases. Though longer exposures are never advised, but to some extent, everyone should enjoy the blessings of light and warmth for at least 30-45 minutes daily.

Best method to keep our skin clean and healthy is – “Let’s check”:

You might be thinking that it must be baths and ablutions. To some extent you are true, but there are things which you may not be aware of. To most of us, washing the skin seems to be a really simple matter, not to be learned from someone else, but do you know, most of the times, it is only these types of small ignorances that eventually bring something alarming with them. Some of us regard the use of soap and water applied in the form of lather with the hands, and afterwards thoroughly removed from the skin by smooth diapers being highly advertised these days. This is probably okay when the skin is not materially dirty, or its pores or surface is unobstructed or not loaded with the residual solid matter of the perspiration. But when skin gets loaded with these residuals then something more than simple friction with the smooth hand is generally required. In such cases the use of a piece of flannel or serge, doubled and spread across the hand will be most ready and effective. Friction with this—first with soap, and afterwards with water to wash the soap off—will be found to cleanse the skin more thoroughly and quickly than any other method. It also helps in removing the worn-out portion of its surface thus imparting a healthy glow and hue that is most refreshing and agreeable. This effect will be increased by wiping the skin surface thoroughly dry with a coarse and moderately rough, but not a stiff, towel, instead of with the fine, smooth diapers.

The choice of soaps:

The choice of soaps has considerable influence in promoting and maintaining this desideratum. These should invariably be selected of the finest kinds, and used sparingly, and never with cold water for the alkali which, more or less, mingles in the composition of all soaps and has an undoubted tendency to irritate a delicate skin; infrequent use of slightly warm water excites a gentle perspiration, thereby assisting the skin to throw off those natural secretions which, if allowed to remain, are likely to accumulate below the skin and produce roughness, pimples, and even eruptions of an obstinate and unpleasant character. Those soaps which ensure a moderate fairness and flexibility of the skin are the most desirable for regular use.

Paints and cosmetics:-

The use of paints has been very correctly characterized as “a species of corporeal hypocrisy as subversive of delicacy of mind as it is of the natural complexion,” and has been, of late years, discarded at the toilette of every lady.

The use of cosmetics has been common in all ages and in every land. Scripture itself records the painting of Jezebel; and Ezekiel, the prophet, speaks of the eye-painting common among the women; and Jeremiah, of rending the face with painting—a most expressive term for the destruction of beauty by such means. For the surest destroyers of real beauty are its simulators. The usurper destroys the rightful sovereign. That paint can ever deceive people, or really add beauty for more than the duration of an acted charade or play, when “distance lends enchantment to the view,” is a delusion; but it is one into which women of all times and nations have fallen—from the painted Indian squaw to the rouged and powdered denizen of London or Paris.

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