Dry skin is an extremely common condition that can affect anyone regardless of age, gender or skin type. People experience dry skin when the outer layer of the dermis lacks sufficient water. The outermost layer of skin, or the stratum corneum, keeps out germs, irritants and allergens and is also responsible for minimizing water loss. When this outermost layer becomes too dry it loses its ability to protect as well as maintain moisture, causing water loss and leaving your skin defenseless to environmental factors. It is important to treat this condition by moisturizing dry skin in order to protect your skin's health and appearance.

What is Dry Skin?

The normal water content of the stratum corneum lies between ten and thirty percent. This moisture gives the skin its smooth and flexible texture. This moisture is naturally drawn by the skin from its external environment as well as inner layers of skin and natural oils created by skin glands. The skin constantly loses moisture to the atmosphere through the process of evaporation, however, the rate is extremely slow and the moisture is effectively replaced. When water is not replaced sufficiently enough to make up for the water that is lost, and the water content of the stratum corneum drops below ten percent is when you find yourself with dry skin. At this point it is time to proactively find another form of moisturizer in order to treat and protect your skin from further damage.

Causes

Many factors can cause the depletion of water from the outermost layer of skin. These can include cold dry air, long hot showers, and severe soaps and cleansers. When in contact with these factors, even those who have higher tendencies genetically toward dry skin experience heightened symptoms and problems. Hot showers and harsh soaps strip skin of its natural oils while cold dry air and low humidity environments in general do not provide atmospheric moisture and dry out the stratum corneum. Water content falls as the damaged stra
tum corneum pulls water to the surface of the skin where it is evaporated. It is helpful to avoid these factors as well as treat with additional moisturizers in order to soothe dry skin.

Symptoms

Usual symptoms of dry skin can include redness itching, flaking, scaling and cracking. Dry skin can appear rough and dehydrated and normal lines of the skin came become more noticeable. Dry skin may turn red and itch which can cause white scales or flaking. In more severe cases, the skin can crack and break open, sometimes due to scratching, in areas that are damaged to a deeper level. Therefore, the need to treat and hydrate skin is vital as to avoid these damaging symptoms.

Treatment - Dry Skin Relief

So how do you treat this common condition? What is the best product to use? The choices of products for moisturizing dry skin can appear endless, yet very few are effective enough to fulfill the vital steps of dry skin treatment. A successful moisturizer most repairs the stratum corneum in order to truly provide relief from dry skin. The treatment needs to reverse water deficit by preventing water loss and providing moisture to reestablish sufficient water content. And finally it should restore the skin's ability to attract water as well as maintain and redistribute its moisture. These critical steps of dry skin treatment must be addressed by any product that hopes to restore skin to its hydrated and healthy state.

BIO SKIN BALM not only addresses these steps in repairing the skin barrier, restoring water content, decreasing water loss and reviving skin, but it does this in an all natural manner. BIO SKIN BALM boasts a combination of highly active organic extracts and biological proteins and fibroblasts that have been proven to restore the skin's flexibility as well as its capacity to retain moisture. With the use of all natural skin care products you can begin moisturizing dry skin now with the realistic expectation of full recovery and restored vibrance. BIO SKIN BALM as a dry skin care product could not be a better option in bringing natural relief, beauty and future prevention to those who suffer from dry skin.