Treatment for Dry Skin with Rose Hip Oil

Dry Skin Treatment with Rose Hip Oil

Treatment for Dry Skin

Dry skin has a low level of sebum and can be prone to sensitivity. The skin has a parched look caused by its inability to retain moisture. It usually feels "tight" and uncomfortable after washing unless some type of moisturizer or skin cream is applied. Chapping and cracking are signs of extremely dry, dehydrated skin.
Dryness is exacerbated by wind, extremes of temperature and air-conditioning, all of which cause the skin to flake, chap and feel tight. This type of skin is tightly drawn over bones. It looks dull, especially on the cheeks and around the eyes. There may be tiny expression lines on these spots and at the comers of the mouth.

Causes of Dry Skin

• The oil glands do not supply enough lubrication to the skin. As a result, the skin becomes dehydrated.

• Skin gets exposed to the elements especially in winter.

• Dry skin could be due to a genetic condition.

• Poor diet. Nutritional deficiencies, especially deficiencies of vitamin A and the B vitamins, can also contribute to dry skin.

• Environmental factors such as exposure to sun, wind, cold, chemicals, or cosmetics, or excessive bathing with harsh soaps.

• Conditions such as dermatitis, eczema, psoriasis, or seborrhea.

• Dry Skin Could Also Be From:
    * Dry skin can be a sign of an underactive thyroid.
  
    * Serious skin complications can arise for people with diabetes.
  
    * Certain drugs, including diuretics, antispasmodics, and antihistamines, can contribute to dry skin.

Remedy Dry Skin

Moisturize your skin after cleansing to keep it from drying out. Use rose hip oil. Apply a few drops of oil on your skin and gently massage it into your skin with your fingers. It wil absob quickly. Avoid solid, waxy moisturizing creams.

Use a humidifier (or even a pan of water placed near a radiator) to humidify your environment, especially in winter. This helps to reduce the amount of moisture lost from the skin through evaporation.

Stay out of overheated rooms; avoid sudden changes in temperature; protect yourself from wind and sun. Remember, your face is fragile.

If you don't have a good, strong moisturizer on your face on a cold, windy winter day, don't go out! Cold will cause any moisture on your skin to evaporate. The wind will just accelerate the process.

At night, use rose hip oil. Remove residue with a spray of mineral water. Follow up with rose hip oil applied at least a half-hour before retiring. If you lie down immediately after applying the rose hip oil, it will "puff-up" delicate tissues around the eyes.

Rose Hip Oil Effects

Rose Hip Oil has been shown to retard the signs of premature aging, to immediately relieve dry skin, and provide excellent results in the treatment of burns, of dermatitis that results from radiotherapy, of scars and unsightly spots on skin.

Used routinely it provides a soothing and healing effect on Dry Skin, Atopic Eczema, Irritant Contact Dermatitis, Infantile Seborrheic Eczema, Varicose Eczema, Discoid Eczema.

The active element in Rose Hip Oil is Trans-Retinoic Acid.

Molecular Formula C20H28O2

Pharmacological effects and classification: Regenerative and distinctive anti-inflammatory effects, improves the blood irrigation. Increases the epidermis regeneration and the capacity to produce new tissue as a consequence of an acceleration of the differentiation of the keratin. Furthermore, the increment of the blood flow and the changes in the microvascularization produces an intense angiogenesis that finally improves irrigation.

Rose hip oil is a skin food-- a natural substances that can do as much good on your skin as does inside your body. These days, words like pure, organic, and natural are the yardstick more and more of us are using to measure the wholesomeness of the foods we put on our dinner plates, it's only natural to live by the same rules when buying products to put on our skin.

"The skin is under constant assault from chemicals in the environment, chlorine in the water, overexposure to the sun, stress, and countless other factors". And the healthiest way to bring it back into balance is by caring for it with herbs, essential oils, foods, vitamins, and other natural substances that soothe and nourish it.

Diet Recommendations for Dry Skin

• Eat a balanced diet that includes vegetables, fruits, grains, seeds, and nuts. Eat quality protein from vegetable sources. Increase your intake of raw foods.

• Eat foods such as garlic, onions, eggs, and asparagus that are high in sulfur, which helps to keep the skin smooth and youthful.

• Consume plenty of yellow and orange vegetables. These are high in beta-carotene, an antioxidant. Carrots are especially good.

• Unrefined, cold-pressed flax seed oil used daily on salads and baked potatoes, or mixed into any dishes which do not require heating to high temperatures will make dry skin moist and supple. Flax seed oil contains the essential fatty acids omega-3 alpha linolenic acid and omega-6 linoleic acid. These are converted in the body into hormone, like substances called Prostaglandins, which support skin health.

• Cantaloupes, carrots and apricots are heating foods for dry skin because they are rich in the vitamins A and C, both important for a supple, smooth skin. Eat them whole or take as fresh juices. Eat foods rich in pantothenic acid (vitamin B5), such as quark, raw. milk cheese, natural plain yogurt, kefir, leafy green vegetables, nutritional yeast and wheat germ. Pantothenic acid is need for the synthesis of fats and oils used by the skin.

• Drink at least 2 quarts of quality water every day to keep the skin well hydrated.

• Avoid fried foods, animal fats, and heat-processed vegetable oils. Use cold- pressed oils only. Heating oils leads to the production of free radicals, which have a destructive effect on the skin.

• Do not drink soft drinks or eat sugar, chocolate, potato chips, or other junk foods.

• Avoid alcohol and caffeine. These substances have a diuretic effect, causing the body and skin cells to lose fluids and essential minerals.