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While dry flaky skin may not be physically irritiating, it can certainly be emotionally harmful. To comprehend this, take the example of a situation where the dryness and flakiness happens to show up on the face, as it commonly does. Now just imagine the effects of walking around this way. Normally, no one will question you about your skin condition. What people will do, in an effort to ‘appear polite’, is to make their own conclusions about the issue – which could be anything from lack of cleanliness to having a serious skin disease to being an effect of too much stress and anything in between. Yet whatever a person assumes becomes their reality, and they may even start spreading it around.
So why does this impact some people and not others? Dry flaky skin is chiefly caused by a lack of natural oil (sebum) in the skin and the solution for it must lie in taking care of restoring it again. This lack of sebum could also be as an outcome of the damage to the glands in the skin which are responsible for its development – which brings us to the first remedy for dry flaky skin – which is the use of aloe vera skin products.
The use of aloe vera skin products – and most notably the cream – not only directly infuses some oil to the skin but goes as far as curing the underlying tissue responsible for creation of the skin’s natural oil, thus taking care of the problem from its center.
Another possible cause of dry flaky skin could be lack of the essential elements from which the skin makes sebum – and this brings us to yet another possible treatment for dry flaky skin, which is proper food choices. Proper nutrition in this regard does not mean filling up on oily food but instead, taking foods which contain the nutrients that the skin uses to make sebum, most notably Sulphur – an element which is abundant in everyday foods like onions and garlic. These are easy to use foods which you can embrace in lieu of spices in your recipes.
Use of harsh soaps and very hot bathing water is yet another common reason you could be having dry flaky skin. The remedy to this is straightforward – choosing cooler bathing water, milder soaps, and maybe using Aloe Vera skin products to help repair the damage that the strong soaps had already inflicted on you.
As a short term remedy, you can also select a dry skin lotion. Using lotion is a temporary treatment for dry skin relief but it won’t get the tissues responsible for the production of sebum to generate the oil, but it will certainly help with the embarrassment and discomfort.
Erica Polaris is a prolific resarcher and writer of skin care health and natural health products. She shares her research on dry flaky skin at her website which includes great tips and recommendations.
- Erica Polaris
