Science Talk 1

During this social/physical distancing time, people have started many new things. This is also a perfect time to start Skin Sobering. Why? Like quitting anything that your body has depended on for a long time, you will go through a withdrawal period, detox time, when your skin is not going to look nice. Just like quitting smoking, for the first month or longer, you will feel worse than while you were smoking.

In normal times when people have to go out and face the world, it's almost impossible to endure any length of time for your skin to look ‘recovering’ – going bad before getting good. But you are staying home, so you can practice Skin Sobering. And when everything is said and done, you will have better skin, more time freed up from skin care routine, and money saved from skin care products.

Skin is an excretory organ. It ‘poops’ out waste. It is not designed to ‘eat’, absorb, or take in nutrients. All of the skin’s nutrients come from within. So putting products on your skin defies your body’s natural metabolism and functioning.

Cleansers and skin care products destroy the following of you skin, slowing and surely. I’ll explain each point in subsequent blogs:

1. Symbiotic Bacteria – your microbiome and normal flora

2. Natural Moisturizing Factor (NMF) – skin’s moisture barrier, the ‘bricks & mortar’ (corneocytes & lipids/proteins) located in the stratum corneum – or the Horny Layer

3. Stratum Corneum - the outermost horny layer– what people see as your ‘skin’, the layer that some women devote their life to exfoliate and improve

4. The skin’s natural metabolism

5. Critical functions of skin’s sebum (lipid/oil)