By: Baldeep Kour
Published: December 30, 2015
Facts about Skin Care
Present scenario in context of beauty has been totally changed in every aspect. Our ancestral herbal beauty products like Haldi & Chandan have been replaced by various chemical prone toxic & costly cosmetic products. Beauty aspect is not just limited to females or younger generations now but it has been expanded to all the age groups in males and females both. Everyone today is beauty conscious as beauty or personality has moved one step ahead of personal and social front till corporate level (Figure 1). But irony is that people are getting just beauty conscious but not at all health conscious. They need to know that a person’s beauty actually means beauty & health of the skin which is the largest organ of our body both in terms of weight & surface area. It is the skin that protects our body from the germs, bacteria & all other things spreading all around us. So, it is a kind of a protective shield (surakshakavach) for us. It also regulates our body temperature so that we can survive at various temperatures in various conditions.
But with increased use of market available beauty products, skin problems are also increasing at a higher pace. Due to change in lifestyle & less availability of time, people are getting habitual of these easy & less time consuming beautification procedures & many big corporate are taking advantage of this and selling many toxic products on the name of herbal extracts. Our hard earned money is getting wasted in these harmful products which only cause damage to the skin. In short term, they give your skin an instant shine but slowly they start showing their dark side or you can say its side effects. Early ageing of skin is a very common example of it. These products not just steal the natural nourishment & smoothness of the skin & make it dull & dry but can lead to various kinds of other skin diseases also.
Some of the skin diseases can be normal & easily curable with little care but it can be very dangerous & incurable also like skin cancer. Common skin problems we face are acnes, pimples, pigmentation, blemishes etc. Biggest Concern here is that most of the times we take them as normal infection & do home remedies to cure that. But delay in the treatment of these types of cases can lead to incurable or disastrous skin diseases.
Skin is the index of our body. Healthy skin represents healthy body. Any kind of skin problem indicates disturbance in some part of our body which need to diagnose properly to remove its root cause.
Major Causes of Skin Problems/Infections/Diseases
Change in lifestyle
It is the root cause behind any of our problem. Poor and hybrid dietary habits shift of all physical activeness & burden to our mind has caused unhealthiness, stress & hypertension. Biological clocks are not been followed for eating, sleeping. This uneven timing cause disturbance in body functioning because body follows its natural procedure. So, this creates digestion problem, & many other problems, and skin disease is on the top of that list.
Decreasing body’s Nutritional level
Due to poor diet, body suffers from nutritional loss. Lack of various essential nutrients like Vitamin A, B1, D, E weakens various major body parts like liver, heart & brain. Even absence of required amount of fat in the body causes dryness of skin which further generates many other skin problems.
Poor quality blood
Unhealthy lifestyle disturbs gastric functions inside the body due to which acid & toxin level start increasing in our blood & makes it acidic & impure. This hampers the pure & oxygenated blood supply to our skin & other organs which in turn causes so many skin problems like acne, eczema, blemishes, etc.
Disease attack
Disturbed lifestyle & dietary habits leads to various major diseases to our body like obesity, hypertension, diabetes, arthritis, piles, asthma which affects the whole body system. Skin is also a body part & even a major part. So, how it left untouched from diseases.
Hormonal problems
Our poor lifestyle, increased stress & anxiety majorly affect body hormones both in males & females which in turn leads to various gynaecological diseases like PCOD & menstrual problems in women & testicular disorders in males. These problems adversely affect our skin. Various infections & skin related diseases occur for which people go to skin specialist instead of curing those gynecological disorders. This way not just your skin remained affected but also your gynaecological problems remained uncured.
Age effect
Now days, pace of aging has become fast. Technology has reached a level that people have forget that body is a natural thing & will follow the nature’s rule of age. During teenage, our sex hormones become very active which leads to increased oil secretion from the body that causes pimples and acnes. As we reached the age of 40’s, activeness of these sex hormones becomes slower due to which dryness increases in the body. From that time, our skin starts getting wrinkles, patches & many other disorders. At that time, we must not immediately rush to skin specialist or chemical prone medication as it adversely affects our skin. It is the natural procedure. We can’t avoid it but we can lower down its pace by improving our lifestyle & dietary habits or use good herbs to maintain the internal strength of the body.
