skin class 101

SKIN:

Your skin is your largest eliminative organ and it receives some of the gases, liquids, and solids for elimination from inside. Proper washing and dietary nourishment is an absolute requirement for lasting good looks. Anything you put on your skin, you are probably eating!

That’s right, the skin absorbs as well as eliminates and if you would not put something in your mouth to eat, do not put it on your skin! In fact it can be worse by putting it on your skin as it will travel through the blood stream damaging tissues before it gets to your liver to be neutralized. Think about the medication patch craze. I’ve read that it only takes 1/400th of the oral dosage in a patch for hormone replacement to get the same effects as a single pill.

The best thing a person can do for skin health is to properly hydrate the body, wash it about every 24 hours with a organic castile (olive oil) soap and a textured cloth or sponge (face every 12) and only use products free of toxic substances upon the surface. Skin brushing can also help speed the detoxification from the skin.

Showering in tap water puts more toxic materials into the bloodstream than drinking it. The skin will absorb the chlorine from water in milliseconds and much damage occurs to many of your tissues before it gets to your liver. The average shower uses 30 to 50 gallons of water with the majority of these voluminous poisons entering you. Additionally, the warm or hot shower produces chlorine and fluorine gases (and many other harmful gases) that you breathe and go straight to the brain and many other parts before the liver can work to neutralize some of the poisons. Your shower/bath increases the toxic load intake by about 600% and potentially increases the damage from it by several thousand times. The EPA lists the shower water as the main source of bladder, kidney, and colon cancer. To get a better idea, think about this: When chlorine combines with decaying organic matter it forms what are called trihalomethanes (THM’s.) They are some of the single most toxic cancer causing substances known to man. Guess what? Our body is full of decaying organic matter and we are adding the chlorine in our shower to make the body a cancer factory! This fact is not factored in the EPA research stated above. Imagine how much higher the percentage would be if they did!

The first thing I would filter in the house is the shower, then the tap, then the main line to the house. The main line whole house filter will save a lot of money. Seldom will a plumber be needed anymore as the hot water tank, pipes, sinks, toilets, dishwashers, washing machines and faucets won’t fill with the harmful mineral deposits as before, saving many thousands of dollars over the years. Clothes and dishes will be cleaner and no longer be such a source of contamination to the body. Washing your hands and brushing your teeth will be a healthier experience. (See Pure Water in our Products/Online Store.)