Moisturizers: An Essential Part of Skin Care

Who doesn’t want to look good?Looking young and beautiful is the dream of every human being.A beautiful skin helps you a lot in looking beautiful.Mainitaning the health of the skin mainly involves protecting the skin from sun,retaining the moisture content of the skin and having a healthy balanced diet.

A sunscreen lotion can help you out in protecting your skin from sun.Water can hydrate your skin from inside.Hence everyone should drink plenty of water if they need a beautiful skin.Next comes moisturiser in the picture. A moisturiser is a substance which restores moisture to the skin.Regular moisturisation of the skin is very essential for maintaing your skin soft,smooth,healthy and young forever. Now moisturisers are available in markets as cosmetics.You can very well use those moisturisers

Who should use it?

“I have a very oily skin.My skin never becomes dry.Do I need to use a moisturiser?”If this is your question,then the answer is definitely “Yes”.But be careful while choosing it.Prefer a moisturiser which is free of oil.Apply only once.You can apply moisturisers for dry skinned babies also.Specific moisturising lotions are available in markets for babies.For any baby above six months,you can apply moisturiser after consulting a doctor(If your baby’s skin is very dry).

What does a moisturiser do exactly?

They reduce the evaporation of water content from the skin and hydrates it.Since the exposed parts like face and hands are more prone to dehydration,they become dry.Moisturizers fill the spaces in the skin hence avoiding transepidermal water loss.the humectants present in the moisturisers will absorb moisture from air.The emollients try to soothe the skin.Hence regular use of moisturisers is always necessary.

Moisturizers Constituents

Most of the moisturisers contain the natural oils ,lipids and sterols which are necessary for hydrating the skin.A quality moisturiser will essentially contain humectants(substances which can absorb moisture from the environment and hence retaining the moisture content of the substance in which they are present).They also contain some substances called emollients for smoothing the rough skin.The higher the spreading value,the better the quality of the emollient.They are occlusive in nature(prevents transepidermal water loss and hence retaining the best source of water to the skin. In commercial products,either honey or glycerin or fuller’s earth will be the most essential ingredient.