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fungirlz · 11-21-2002, 07:24 AM

Good Morning Everyone:
We felt we needed to understand the structure and Components of our skin to really fully understand the ingredients of a product and why or why not it may work for us or our guests.

Let’s look at the structure of our skin for a bit…
With-in one square inch of our skin ranging from 1mm to about 4 mm in thickness there are about 650 sweat glads..about 65 hair folicals..about 19 yards of capillaries,78 yards of nerves near a thousand nerve endings and sesory cells and our Langerhan cells that are for immunological protection…and if that is not enough the skin also contains our melanoncye cells along with our tyrosinase enzymes that are responsible for producing the melanin that gives us our freckles and pigmentation.
All of this is found in one square inch of our skin about the thickness of a few sheets of paper!!! Ok.. go ahead and say it.. WOW!!!!
This has always fascinated me to no end.

Housed in this complex structure are two types of glands .. our oil glands and our sweat glands.. the ducts of our oil glands open into the upper part of our hair follicles.. most of the time there is only one oil gland per follicle but at times there could be more..
Oil glands are found in almost every part of our skin but mostly the number is high on the face chest and back.. the soles of our feet and our palms of our hands have none. The sebum is our lubrication and helps prevent moisture loss. If an individual has a lack of oil secretion their skin will be dry. ( We talked about this before)…

Sweat glands are all over the entire body. We have many many sweat glands on our forehead, under our arms and on the soles of our feet..

Dirt or cloggs in our pores occur in our hair follicles.. remember the glad begins as a coiled duct through the epidermis..and exits through the follical...
Some people think sweating is a way of cleansing our skin.. Not true.. Some think going into a Sauna cleans the pores.. not true…

The skins pH is known as the protective mantle..it is formed by many things..
Natural perspiration and oils. The pH of our skin should be between a 4.4 and a 5.6.

Now how do products help enhance the “beauty” and function of our skin??

[ This Message was edited by: fungirlz on 2002-11-21 06:29 ]

11-21-2002, 07:24 AM	#17 (permalink)
fungirlz Join Date: Jan 17 2002 Posts: 4,753 Rep Power: 8	Good Morning Everyone: We felt we needed to understand the structure and Components of our skin to really fully understand the ingredients of a product and why or why not it may work for us or our guests. Let’s look at the structure of our skin for a bit… With-in one square inch of our skin ranging from 1mm to about 4 mm in thickness there are about 650 sweat glads..about 65 hair folicals..about 19 yards of capillaries,78 yards of nerves near a thousand nerve endings and sesory cells and our Langerhan cells that are for immunological protection…and if that is not enough the skin also contains our melanoncye cells along with our tyrosinase enzymes that are responsible for producing the melanin that gives us our freckles and pigmentation. All of this is found in one square inch of our skin about the thickness of a few sheets of paper!!! Ok.. go ahead and say it.. WOW!!!! This has always fascinated me to no end. Housed in this complex structure are two types of glands .. our oil glands and our sweat glands.. the ducts of our oil glands open into the upper part of our hair follicles.. most of the time there is only one oil gland per follicle but at times there could be more.. Oil glands are found in almost every part of our skin but mostly the number is high on the face chest and back.. the soles of our feet and our palms of our hands have none. The sebum is our lubrication and helps prevent moisture loss. If an individual has a lack of oil secretion their skin will be dry. ( We talked about this before)… Sweat glands are all over the entire body. We have many many sweat glands on our forehead, under our arms and on the soles of our feet.. Dirt or cloggs in our pores occur in our hair follicles.. remember the glad begins as a coiled duct through the epidermis..and exits through the follical... Some people think sweating is a way of cleansing our skin.. Not true.. Some think going into a Sauna cleans the pores.. not true… The skins pH is known as the protective mantle..it is formed by many things.. Natural perspiration and oils. The pH of our skin should be between a 4.4 and a 5.6. Now how do products help enhance the “beauty” and function of our skin?? [ This Message was edited by: fungirlz on 2002-11-21 06:29 ]