What Is Your Skin’s Main Ingredient?

What Is Your Skin’s Main Ingredient?

Do you know what your skin’s main ingredient is? If you said “more skin,” well, you’re just being silly!

The skin’s main ingredient as with everything else in the body is water. That’s right, everything in the body is made up of some 60%-95% water and the skin is no exception. Water molecules make up the vast majority of the body, and with good reason. Think of how many things on the body need a degree of moisture. Our eyes definitely need moisture and one of the reasons we blink so often is that our eyelids cover the eyes with moisture every time they do. Our muscles need moisture in order to expand and contract so that we can move, reach, stretch, and so on. All of our vital organs need water and hydration, as does the blood. (Here’s where you can find more detailed information on skin care and skin lightening.)

And so it goes with the skin. Think of what your skin would look like if it wasn’t hydrated or moisturized - it might resemble a big piece of flattened beef jerky! Tough leather is the texture it is because it doesn’t have moisture any longer, and if our skin wasn’t adequately hydrated it too would be about the same texture as leather.

Our skin being adequately hydrated allows it to expand and contract as we move. Every time you sit down you’re stretching your skin along your backside so that your legs can bend that way. When you reach for something your skin needs to stretch as far as your arm can go; when you curl your fingers around something your skin curls with it.

So what’s the point in all of this? Simply put, if the skin is made up of mostly water you can better understand how important it is to hydrate yourself in order to have healthy and radiant skin. (Here’s where you can find more detailed information on best skin care products.)

When we drink water the body uses it for everything else - the eyes, heart, muscles, other vital organs and so on - before it sends it to the skin, so the skin is last in line to get any moisture or hydration at all! This means that you need to not just drink water but drink enough so that you’re supporting all the systems and components of your body so that there’s enough left over for the skin as well.

So if you want healthy and radiant skin, drink up!

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