Skin an outer accessories and most beautiful of the body, therefore it is always trying to maintain. Skin soft, smooth, and moist is the key to a fresh appearance. For women, the skin becomes the determining factor of beauty, so many ways endeavored to maintain the condition of the skin to keep healthy.
Sunlight, exposure to air conditioning, aging, unhealthy diet to be one of the factors that cause dry skin. These factors are also called eskternal factor. In addition to internal factors are also a big influence on skin condition. One time the skin can become dry and cracked skin, dry skin problem is often the case that obviously damage the beauty. Thus the necessary identification how to retain skin moisture and doesn't easily dry
Internal factors that affect the skin moisture is water. If the body is deprived of water the water inside the skin cells will be reduced. Durability and function of the enzyme was decreased, the structure of the stratum corneum less, so the skin becomes dry and rough.
Keep in mind about a third of the water in the body is under the skin. The deeper layers, the higher the water content. Therefore, if adequate supply of water in the body, water can be transported through the blood vessels to the upper skin layer. Air-water flow between cells through tiny channels known as aquaporin.
In a cell can consist of 200,000 aquaporin. The more numerous the more established channels for water transport in the cell so that moisture is maintained. That is why, despite our drinking water intake is sufficient but if the number of aquaporin in a little leather, dry and scaly skin will still be approached.
According Dr.Christopher mummert, group manager of regional development Beiersdorf AG Hamburg, skin moisturizing products on the market condition the skin in two ways, namely bind and keep the water on the skin surface, and form a barrier to reduce evaporation of water.
According to Mummert, the principle does not guarantee the water spread evenly in all cells of the skin because there is no channel that keeps water flowing between the cell membrane. In addition it requires the use of a moisturizer such as repetition, whereas Asians are easily irritated skin.
Retain moisture, according to Mummert, should not just on the skin layer above it, but in all layers of the epidermis. "The important thing is to multiply the actual aquaporin across the water that enters the cell so scattered in all directions so that more water is bound and more water flow to the skin area that is not balanced," he said at a media event education in Jakarta some time ago.
Starting from an understanding of aquaporin function of moisture which was first discovered by Professor Peter Agre in 2002, scientists at Beiersdorf, Germany, via Nivea products for 7 years doing research and found that Hydra IQ can increase aquaporin in the skin.
So, one easy way is to keep skin moisture with frequent drinking fresh water. It helps meet the needs of the body when the skin receives the hot sun or cold air causes dry skin and cracked. Use body lotion to keep the skin is a very good thing, make sure the body lotion is suitable for your skin.
