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Lipids, Glorious Lipids: Learn About the Lipid Barrier and Keeping your Skin Healthy

I spend my Sundays from 4-7 talking to people at the Elephant Pharmacy in Berkeley about skin issues. I love doing this because it is the one day out of the week that I actually get to have face time with my many customers, and I am always enriched by the experience and gratified by how much I learn from them. Last Sunday I saw quite a range of skin problems; one young woman with severe adult acne, another young woman with combination skin (breakouts on her forehead and clear everywhere else), another young woman with congested skin (consisting of tiny blackheads that pretty much covered her face) a woman in her 30"s with intermittent eczema, an older woman with very dry skin, and finally someone who thought she had rosacea. I was struck by a common denominator in these varying skin concerns-the problem that I am coming to believe underlies most of the benign skin abnormalities I see. It has to do with what is called the "lipid barrier" of the skin, and what happens when it is compromised.


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Want to Know About the Best Natural Skin Care Cream

The best natural skin care cream is one that contains plant extracts, vegetable oils (not mineral oils), vitamins, antioxidants and amino acid proteins. Taking care of you skinò€™s health is the first step toward looking and feeling better.

Itò€™s a lifelong process. Itò€™s never too early or too late to start. The best skin creams can undo at least some of the damage done by years of neglect and exposure.

You have literally thousands of companies to choose from. There are a few ò€œsignsò€ that help you identify the good ones. One is a proud signer of the ò€œCompact for Safe Cosmeticsò€.

You see safe and naturally occurring substances are not synonymous. A company can say that it has the best natural skin care cream and still include petroleum-based compounds.

While petroleum is a naturally occurring substance, it is not all that safe. It has never been very good for you skinò€™s health, because it clogs the pores and strips it of its own oils, so it compounds dryness issues. If excessive oiliness is a problem already, it just makes the face and body feel greasier.

So, the best skin creams will not contain mineral oils, liquid paraffin, petrolatum or paraffin wax. Instead, they will contain olive and palm oil, jojoba and Babassu wax.

For many years, cosmetic companies have had separate lines of products for oily, dry and combination skin-types. The best natural skin care cream is beneficial for any skin-type.

You may know sebaceous glands secrete an oily substance called ò€œsebumò€. Sebum waterproofs your skin and prevents it from becoming dry, brittle and cracked. It also inhibits the growth of microorganisms.

Typically, if your skin feels too oily or too dry, it is either from over cleansing or under cleansing. Products that are not the best skin creams can increase either condition. There are certain health problems, such as acne, in which the sebaceous glands secrete too much sebum and prescription drugs are used to reduce the production.

But, there is a wax derived from the jojoba seed that ò€œbalancesò€ sebum production. Thatò€™s why the best natural skin care cream will contain jojoba wax, because it works for any skin-type to balance sebum production in either direction.

If you are concerned about fine lines and wrinkles, the best skin creams to choose contain a patented compound called Functional Keratin. Keratin is one of the protein building blocks for new cells. A number of companies had a type of de-naturalized keratin to their products, but the best natural skin care cream is ò€œFunctionalò€.

De-naturalized keratin cannot be used by the skinò€™s cells to produce new ones. Functional Keratin can. There is a unique manufacturing process that makes keratin soluble, without denaturalizing it. Functional Keratin is one of the best skin creams because it increases elasticity and encourages the production of new skin-cells.

It may be a little difficult to find the best natural skin care cream. But, if you want younger looking, healthier looking skin, donò€™t give up the search.






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