Wednesday 9 July 2014

Scientific Skin Care News 15

Scientific Beauty News Letter

15. Natural Moisturizing Factors!
The structure of epidermis if is intact, it makes the skin healthy. When we talk about the intact structure of the epidermis, it is not just the intact cells, but many more factors along with the cells.

The components that actually make the epidermis stronger and beautiful are actually called Natural Moisturizing Factors (NMF). These are all the ingredients which balance the beauty and health of the skin.

The skin is blessed with the sebum and the epidermal lipids. These oily substances prevent the evaporation of the moisture from the skin and provide lubrication to the surface of the skin. This actually forms the intracellular matrix, which along with these skin lipids provide great surface texture and feel to the healthy skin.

This intracellular matrix actually makes the skins first line of defence against water loss. Let me tell you that the skin is neither completely protected with the skin lipids nor the Natural moisturizing factors, but it is the combination of the Lipids and the NMF, which provides perfect protection, feel, softness and beauty of the skin.

Whenever the lipid and/or the NMF content of the skin reduces, what we experience si surface roughness of the epidermis, Flaking, dryness and associated fine lines, and an uncomfortable feeling of skin tightness and pulling on the skin.

Longer the skin surface is damaged, more is the ageing, where dehydration plays a major role. Not only the overall functioning of the skin is impaired, but also the healing process of the skin is impaired.

What is this NMF actually. It represents the group of chemical substances which actually retains moisture in the epidermis and we are saved from the daily atmospheric drying.

NMF represents a complex group of substances, that includes the Ceramides, Amino Acids,  Cholesterol, Fatty acids, Hyaluronic acid, Triglycerides, Phospholipids, Urea, Linoleic acid, Glycerine, Mucopolysaccharides, and sodium pyrrolidone carboxylic acid.

The skin oils support the oer all retention of the moisture in the skin, and if you look for the outside source you will notice that some lipids have similar characteristics with the sebum of the body. These include the Apricot oil, Coconut oil, Soyabean Oil, Sweet Almond Oil, Lanolin, Lecithine, Olive Oil, sesame oil, and all these things can be extremely helpful in making the skin come out of dryness, dehydration and starts looking better.

All these ingredients, the lipids and the NMF are present in the  intracellular structure of the epidermis. When any of these ingredients are included in the skin products with proper scientific study, they help stabilizing the normal intracellular matrix and this provides better skin to us.

Such moisturizing support prevents the surface irritation from penetrating deeper into the skin, helps keeping the bacteria out, and supports the immune as well as healing system of the skin. Therefore when these natural moisturizing factors are selectively incorporated into the moisturizers, they help repairing the damage t the skin.

This process if is kept intact for long term in the life, the skin is saved, the dryness reduces, excess irritation reduces and the skin rejuvenates.


Credit : Rahul Phate’s

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