The ‘Outside’ Job of Skin Care

Daily Health Tip: The ‘Outside’ Job of Skin Care

Your skin is much more than an outer surface for the world to see — it’s the largest organ of your body! Plus, it has a number of amazing responsibilities that you probably don’t think about on a daily basis:

• Protects your internal organs from injury and infection.
• Helps detoxify wastes through perspiration.
• Provides an important line of immune defense against infections — your healthy skin creates a barrier to viruses and bacteria.
• Protects you against extreme changes in temperature, through its thermoregulatory effect of controlling heat flow between you and your environment.
• Produces and stores vitamin D, which is important to your immune system.
  Rich in receptors, it allows you to sense conditions around you — like hard/soft and hot/cold — and send information to your brain so you can react to it for self-preservation.
• Protects your body from sunburns.
• Protects you from dehydration.

The loss of any of these functions will compromise your best health — and can accelerate signs of normal aging. Put simply, your skin plays a major role in your health, so take care of it with natural & organic skin and body care.