Background

There are many factors related to informed and intelligent skin care.

Very few people understand the unseen challenges to their unique type of skin due to harmful environmental challenges and genetic weaknesses. Only a few people have the know-how of how to keep their skin healthy and vibrant. Or how to assist their skin to rejuvenating naturally, timeously, and in a preventative way.

The condition and or appearance of any person skin is key to their general health. It is in all cases the first line of barrier of defence to their health. A healthy skin is also closely related to many people’s mental wellbeing and self-esteem.

The importance of appearance, and mental wellbeing, and being the first line of defence in health, made skin care a multi-billion Dollar industry.

A healthy, vibrant, and happy skin does not make money. A skin in need of care, does.

Successful skin care?

Know your skin and know your skin’s enemies.

The skin is the body’s first line of defence.

· A healthy skin protects humans and animals from environmental stressors, irritants, allergens, bacteria, viruses, and other harmful pathogens and microbes.

· Environmental factors can also leave the human skin dry, fragile, sensitive, and susceptible to infected scratches, sores, burns, sun’s UV-rays.

· An unhealthy skin is also susceptible to own produced free radicals, (cell waste), factory fumes, petrochemical smoke, pesticides, dust, insecticides, and many endocrine disruptive household cleaning chemicals.

· An unhealthy skin is also prone to insect bites and the proteins in their saliva.

Internal and external factors

· There are many factors – both internal and external – that will cause damage to the natural skin. A compromised skin barrier is hypersensitive and prone to irritation.

· The African sun, several medications, harsh environmental conditions, and free radical exposure, demands more focus on the health of the human skin.

· The goal in skin care is to look younger. That can only be achieved by informed skin care, natural skin care products and mindful skin management.

Internal (endogenous) factors

Internal factors of note that is detrimental to healthy sustainable skin health, includes stress factors of sorts, critical skin care mineral and vitamin shortages, constipation, low water

intake, chemical enhanced and or disrupted hormones, leaky gut, endocrine factors, insulin resistance, high sugar diets, diabetes, cancer, medication, and genetic factors.

Internal factors show in external conditions

Skin conditions such as “Atopic Dermatitis, Psoriasis and Ichthyosis “are also skin types considerably predicted by genetics.

Hormones

Changes in hormones can affect the skin and may cause acne. Pregnancy can cause hyperpigmentation and affect the skin’s moisture balance.

Hormones, and the changes in their levels

Have a significant impact on skin:

· Hormonal changes can trigger the acne of puberty.

· During pregnancy, hormones can encourage the increased production of melanin, a form of hyperpigmentation, also known as “melasma.”

· Female oestrogen levels decline as part of the biological ageing process, especially after the menopause.

· Oestrogen has a beneficial effect on the moisture balance of skin.

· Its decline leads to structural changes and the age-related atrophy of skin.

The role of genetics

Genetics determines the skin types to normal, dry, oily or a combination skin. It also determines the natural biological ageing of skin.

Harms to a healthy skin

It is safe to say that a healthy skin requires comprehensive protection against many “not visible to the eye” factors.

In many cases, in the bigger scheme of things, harm to the skin is unavoidable.

· Cancer treatments leaves the skin dry and dehydrated. It also leaves the skin more susceptible to unnatural (apoptosis) cell death.

· Various medications have specified side effects, preventing skin cells to rejuvenate naturally, and timeously.

· Sun protection to these patients is almost non-negotiable and crucial for their skin and general wellbeing.

Biological ageing of the skin is illustrated by:

· A deterioration or lack of cell regeneration

· Inadequate cell renewal.

· Dropped sebaceous and sweat gland secretions.

· Lack of collagen production results in the deterioration of the human body’s connective tissue.

· A lack of collagen triggers the skin to be less able to rehydrate skin cells and, to absorb enough water, resulting in the loss of skin flexibility and firmness.

· Disintegration of elasticity in muscles and tendons

· Poor skin fibre and reduced skin elasticity.

Ecohealth skin care

Biological skin ageing is different from premature skin ageing.

“Premature skin ageing is caused by external factors and are factors that can be managed and controlled by human preventative actions.”

One factor unknown to many

Is the importance of the skin protein called “Filaggrin?” People who are born with a lack of this protein, found naturally in the skin, will have a weaker barrier function in protecting their skin.

This factor is the reason why Ecohealth choose to develop a colostrum-based, UV-protective layer as a basis in the Ecohealth Sunscreen SPF50 Factor. The skin is an important living biome. A habitat for millions of beneficial bacteria.

The skin is mildly acidic, with a pH of between 4.7 and 5.75. With a poor skin barrier, various skin related illnesses can be triggered and aggravated by internal and external factors.

The market is loaded with harmful and aggressive skin cleansers.

· Aggressive cleansers, such as sodium lauryl sulphate and moisturising products, with an alkaline pH, overtax skin’s natural neutralising capability.

· Aggressive chemicals and skin peelings can damage skin’s pH balance

· Actively damage internal cell structures.

· Also impair the barrier functions of the outermost layer of the epidermis.

· Destroy natural biotic skin flora. Probiotic life to keep the human skin young and healthy and, to safeguard the skin against environmental factors.

A sensitive skin

· Is characterised by a weakened protective barrier

· A disturbed pH-balance and

· And a lack of natural protective probiotic bacteria on the skin

· Is prone to the many detrimental effects of harsh chemical products.

As a result

The skin can dry out and become hypersensitive. Becomes more susceptible to skin infections and skin flare-ups of diseases, such as atopic dermatitis or rosacea.

Why colostrum with Ecohealth’s SPF 50 Sunblock

Colostrum is known for its may anti-aging and antioxidant components. Apart from suppling all the possible natural food to skin cells to replenish and heal in abundance, it also removes dangerous free oxygen radicals, metabolic waste from damaged skin that can stimulate infection.

Sun induced skin damage inhibits the normal metabolism of nutrients the skin requires. Resulting in high levels of reactive oxygen species (ROC), which in return cause oxidative stress in tissues.

Colostrum, in the Ecohealth Protective Skin Care SPF 50, can prevent rapid aging because of UV-Rays and environmental factors detrimental to damaged skin. It will also prevent damage to skin DNA and cell structures.

Antioxidants

Apart from containing several powerful antioxidants, it contains glutathione, the most powerful antioxidant known, and its chemical persecutors to protect skin health and skin wellbeing.