Skin Care : Fascinating Facts

Ayurveda reveals a lot of interesting and fascinating facts that enhance our knowledge about the living body, its components and day to day naturopathy ways that help cure and prevent ailments.

Following are few such facts:

• Skin is the largest organ in the body serving many functions essential to life.
  

• Skin is considered to be an important expression of beauty.
  

• Skin and its appendages, hair and nails together, make or mar the natural, physical beauty of a person.
  

• Skin is considered as a major sex organ as its feel is sensually vital.
  

• Skin protects the body and maintains body fluids and chemicals.
  

• The regulation of body temperature by controlling the inflow and outflow of heat is also the function of ayurveda.
  

• Skin also acts as an excretory organ that eliminates in form of sweat a major portion of calories provided to the body by the digestive system that is utilized in physical work.
  

• Skin determines whether a person is thin or stout or even overweight.
  

• Skin acts as a deterrent against toxins, germs and other hazards. This is the main reason why 'burn' patients with extensive skin damage suffer from several infections and loss of body fluids