Your skin is the human body’s largest organ. It is part of the integumentary system acting as a physical barrier to the rest of the organs that make up the person of you. Your integumentary system consists of your skin, hair, nails, and glands. These organs and structures are your first line of defense against bacteria and to protect you from injury and sunlight. This body system works in conjunction with your other body systems to keep you in balance.

Good skin care is essential to a healthy body. If anyone tells you they don’t like getting “all dolled up” as if skin care is only about personal “looks,” remind them that good skin care health is important for overall health and wellbeing. Everyone’s skin needs protection and hydration, including men. This is not simply a women’s thing, putting on makeup to hide yourself. Without your skin, you would simply evaporate.

Did you know adults have about eight pounds of skin, which is twenty-two square feet, or two square meters jacketing the human body? Skin is amazing. It waterproofs, provides an insulating shield, guards your body against temperature extremes, damaging sunlight, and harmful chemicals. Skin also releases antibacterial substances and prevents infections.

Did you also know that surgeons use a combination engineered from cow-tendon collagen, shark cartilage, and silicone, including a skin substitute known as Integra, to help close burn wounds until new skin grows in?

It is not just for good looks that skin care regimes include cleansing, toning, masking, hydrating, sun protection, and the outer layer of foundation. These steps do more than simply help people to look good.

www.Melaleuce.com promotes heathy skin care:

“Your Layers of Defense

• “Epidermis: The outermost and thinnest layer of the skin—the epidermis contains no blood vessels but has many small nerve endings. While thin, it is made up of five layers. The outermost layer is what you see.
  
  “Stratum Corneum: This is the layer most affected by skin care products. Its scale-like cells are continually being shed and replaced. These cells combine with fats and oils produced by the skin to create a protective water-resistant layer. The complex of lipids between the cells is known as the barrier function, which keeps the skin moist by preventing water evaporation and guarding against outside irritants.

• “Dermis: The dermis is the inner layer of the skin that is 25 times thicker than the epidermis. Within this layer lies numerous blood vessels, lymph vessels, nerves, sweat glands, oil glands, and hair follicles. This layer supplies the skin with all of its oxygen and nutrients.”

Healthy skin, even with arms, legs, and the entire body usually hidden under clothes benefits from intensive skin therapy, such as Melaleuca’s Renew Intensive Skin Therapy. This is a clinically proven moisturizing lotion that heals and prevents even the driest skin. It also provides immediate and long-lasting relief, and leaves skin softer and healthier.

Check out www.melaleuca.com. If you need someone to help you get started, I am here. Just email me at linhourihan@yahoo.com. It is the best health and wellness online store I have found.

Yes, I buy products from Melaleuca, The Wellness Company , because they do not use harsh chemicals, are planet healthy as well and are conscious of being healthy for people to use on their bodies, ingest in their vitamins, drink fair trade coffees, and other energy foods and snack foods and drinks. I like investing in products such as these, which other companies are starting to mimic these days.

The Melaleuca website says, “The skin gets its strength, form, and flexibility from 2 specific structures that make up 70% of the dermis layer of the skin.

“Collagen: Fibrous protein that gives the skin form and strength. When healthy they allow the skin to stretch and contract. If weak, the skin will lose its tone and suppleness. Collagen fibers become weak due to age, lack of moisture, environmental damage, weight changes and lack of nutrition.

“Elastin: Fibrous protein that forms elastic tissue. Elastin is interwoven into collagen fibers and gives the skin its flexibility and elasticity. Elastin is weakened in the same way collagen is weakened.

“Your Skin Needs Nourishment from the Outside and Inside!

“To keep the body healthy, people must ensure that what they eat helps regulate hydration, oil production, and overall function of the body’s cellular network.

• “Vitamin A aids in the proper function of skin cell turnover and has been shown to improve the skin’s thickness and elasticity.
• “Vitamin C aids in the skin’s ability to repair itself and promotes cell repair and firmness.
• “Vitamin D helps the body absorb and use calcium while supporting rapid skin healing.
• “Vitamin E supports the protective role of the skin.

“Skin Health Needs You. Here Are the Ways to Protect Yourself:

“Sleep, exercise, nutrition, hydration, hygiene, topical care, sun care, less blue light.

“Skin Facts that Could Change Your Approach:

• Issues That Affect Your Skin
• You’re Not As Clean As You Think
• Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes
• Skin Care for Men vs. Women
• Here Comes the Sun
• Your Skin Care Routine is ”
  • All photos from www.melaleuca.com.

I also get my vitamins from Melaleuca since they provide good health from the inside out, which are building blocks for hair, nails, digestion, eyes, heart, and joint health as well. I recently took the packaging to show my primary care health physician to see if they were not enough, or too much of what I needed. She told me they were well-balanced and complete.

I am using the Renew Intensive Skin Therapy product to make a point, but all of their products, especially the Sei Bella Facial Skincare line are made with this attention to detail. Renew body lotion is fast-absorbing, long-lasting relief, going beyond temporary moisturization, delivering long-lasting relief from dry, rough, or irritated skin and uncomfortable chronic skin conditions. By helping your skin attract and retain more moisture, Renew Lotion heals, protects, and prevents even the driest skin.

The Sei Bella line of products rival the best-selling skin care and cosmetics companies in this market. Check out: https://www.melaleuca.com/search?searchTerm=sei%20bella.

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