Does Our Skin....Eat?

 

If you read any of my previous posts, you will know that I do things a little differently here. I will never claim to be an expert. Except in regards to my own body. Then again, even there, I'm still learning.  Here I ask you the questions to get you thinking...for yourself. Because I believe that you are your best expert.

Today I have some questions for you about your skin.

We are told that skin is our largest organ.

We are 'told' by the beauty industry that it's okay to put dyes and other chemicals on our skin because skin is simply a barrier that protects us from the environment, and it doesn't accept or penetrate agents deeper into our bloodstream or other organs. After all, these dyes and chemicals are legal, right? 

We are also told....

1) That vaccines delivered through the skin will be the way of the future. ....

2) That there is a term called transdermal Drug Delivery (TDD), a painless method of delivering drugs systemically by applying a drug formulation onto intact and healthy skin. 

And there was once a time when....

3)A substance called “Hexachlorophene was widely used as a topical antiseptic for the prevention of staphylococcal infection in the newborn. For 20 years it was common practice for infants to be bathed in it. Tragic confirmation that chlorophene is neurotoxic came when a French manufacturer accidently marketed a batch of baby talcum powder that contained 6-3% hexachlorophene (it should have contained none). Altogether 204 infants were poisoned with an illness characterised by a severe ulcerating nappy rash, fever, convulsions, and coma, of whom 36 died.”

What is an organ, you may ask?

In biology, an organ (from the Latin "organum" meaning an instrument or tool) is a collection of tissues that structurally form a functional unit specialized to perform a particular function. 

My questions for you:

1) Is the function of the skin organ, simply to protect us from 'things' entering as we've all been lead to believe by the general cosmetic industry, or is it also another body 'portal' for 'things' to actually 'enter'....?

2) If it's both, can we simiilarly 'feed' our body nutrients through the skin? If so, what should we feed the body through the skin? What should we NOT feed the body through the skin?

3) What do you put on your skin, every day? 

 

STUDIES & RESOURCES:

(The studies below are nowhere near an exhaustive list. Always continue your own research and read the papers within each paper below.)

1) Vaccines Delivered via Dissolvable Skin Patches

2) Transdermal Drug Delivery: Innovative Pharmaceutical Developments Based on Disruption of the Barrier Properties of the stratum corneum 

3) Drug absorbtion through the skin: a mixed blessing.

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These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA. I am not a doctor. I am simply sharing my opinions and studies as a clinical herbalist, researcher, and fellow human being on health topics and methods. Always take my opinions, thoughts, and advice with a grain of salt. Try them on for size but always by your own consent. And continue to research on your own. Remember: your health is your own. 

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