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Originally posted by SikStyles
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Originally posted by wacky
Anywho, just taking a shower is bad, because the skin creates oils. Those oils protect it from germs and such. Thing is, when you take a shower, you get rid of those oils and you're at higher risk of getting bad stuff eating you up
well sometimes these oils are bad because dirt gets caught in it and goes into skin pores causing blackheads and acne..thats why those acne treatments control oil outlet and clean dirty oil from ur skin..
i dont know, i just think it works that way..anyway people, keep taking shower/baths
Errm... small but important correction/addition is at place here...
The oil the skin produces is VERY important. As Wacky has said, it protects the skin and your whole body. She has a very and important point and is totally correct.
However, SikStyles has a point also, only it isn't explained well.
It is not the "dirty" oil that gets into the skin pores or whatever. It is the dirt itself, this can (emphasize on "can", thus not "will") produce blackheads.
Acne is something entirly different and is almost never caused by dirt. It is caused by (masculine) hormones... Acne products do not control the oil outlet of the skin (well, some do, but those are only temporary solutions), they should control the hormone production*.
When people say that taking a shower is bad for your natural skin oil, they are absolutely perfectly correct!!! However they also mean taking a shower and washing with
soap.
It is the soap which attacks and destroys the natural body oils. Water alone will not destroy the natural oils. You can perfectly take a shower once a day without washing with soap (or whatever you or the industry wanna call it; like "showergel") and it will perfectly be healthy; it will also take away all the dirt and smells as good as with soap.
However when you take a shower every day and you wash with soap you really
are destroying your skin (and this is not a laughable fact or something like the OP's post)....
This is exactly the same with washing hair!!!!! Washing you hear every day or every 2 days (with shampoo) is very bad and destroys the skin on your head (and the hair also btw, unless you have a very specialized and expensive shampoo product). If you really want to keep it clean AND healthy, it is far better to wash it with water alone and only once a week with soap.
* Both boys and girls have these masculine hormones. And they are produced the most in puberty. But girls produce less of those hormones. This is the reason why girls get relative less acne then boys. Also girls who start taking the pill will get less acne because the pill also controls hormone production...
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