Structure of the Skin

Skin is the shield and foundation of your physical beauty. How can a building be strong if the foundation is weak. If you wish to preserve your health and beauty, you must ensure regular upkeep of beauty. Children have a very soft skin. There is a physical change due to hormones when you enter your youth and you start having problems like Blackheads, acne and pimples.With the aging process, wrinkles, blemishes appear on your body. The knowledge of the texture and functions of skin is necessary to have these problems eradicated.

Texture : The skin mainly has two layers i.e. epidermis and dermis. The upper layer is called epidermis and the lower one dermis. You have skin disease like Blackheads, acne etc. on epidermis but their cause is from dermis. Since it is the lower layer so its bad effects cause skin disease.

Epidermis keeps changing. It has four parts. The inner layer (the lowest one) which is joined with the dermis where its cells grow when upper cells are dead and discarded. The lower ones replace them. This is an ongoing process. All the dead cells slowly come on the outer side and automatically fall off they can be discarded by physical cleanliness too. So cleaning of the body is very necessary. The skin looks dirty and lifeless due to dead cells. Such a kind of skin is susceptible to disease immediately. Keep your skin clean with sea salt, besan (gramflour), and unripe papaya once in a month. Dead cells are also removed by rubbing complexion brush and a puff. Never use a complexion brush if you have pimples on your face. This will scratch the pimples and also further spoil your face.

Skin is very hard in the old age. The reason is that the dead skin is not discarded of its own. It gets accumulated as an upper layer. When dead skin is not discarded there is no formation of new cells. So, the skin becomes hard. Oil glands, (sebaceous glands) are not operative too at that stage so they don't retain moisture and the skin becomes dry and will have wrinkl es.

The dermis has two kinds of glands (1) glands which produce perspiration and (2) glands which produce oils. The glands producing perspiration keep the temperature of your body normal and oil glands produce oil which conics out from the pores and spreads on the body. When this process does not take place on some parts of body, they took dull.

Germs are produced if there is a blockage in the pores and you have diseases like Blackheads, acne.