Cleansing of Fragile Skin
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Skin pH and the Acid Mantle
"Mild" Soaps Often Damage Skin
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Gentle Clean is a cleanser for skin that is sensitive, fragile, dry, itchy, damaged, or valuable. The cleanser was specifically formulated to clean the fragile skin of cancer patients after radiation or chemotherapy. Most cleansers cause damage to very fragile and damaged skin. Gentle Clean is a combination of an effective but very mild cleanser is especially appropriate for persons with dry skin, eczema, allergy-prone skin, psoriasis, diabetes or those recovering from cancer therapy. However, even if your skin is healthy but you consider your skin to be very valuable, this very mild cleanser will help clean and protect your skin.
Cleansing
of Fragile Skin
Ordering
Information
Skin
pH and the Acid Mantle
"Mild"
Soaps Often Damage Skin
Gentle Clean was developed as a cleaning agent for very sensitiveand damaged skin and has been field tested for four years. Nurses and physicians report that the cleanser works very well on sensitive and fragile skin such as which occurs with eczema, in the bedridden, or after cancer therapy. Some nurses and physicians have told us that they think the cleanser has healing properties but we believe that the very careful preparation of the product produces the good results.
Many soap and cleansers not only remove surface dirt and oils, but they actually damage the skin by destroying its natural protective "acid mantle", the skin's lipid and antioxidant barrier. This damage leads to the generation of more skin-damaging free radicals and creates a dry, flaky skin which stimulates the production of more oil.
Gentle Clean works well for skin cleaning during exfoliation for skin renewal. It is is a good cleaning system for persons as risk for skin damage such as those with eczema, psoriasis, or diabetes. Fragile skin can literally be dissolved by strong soaps.
The clear, translucent cleansing bars contain no harsh detergents, caustics, glycerin, or "flash" foaming agents. The pH of 7.8 is near neutrality in contrast to the very basic pH of most soap and skin cleansers.
Customers tell us that the bar is very effective at removing mascara and
other color cosmetics.
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"Skin pH" is a chemist's term meaning "Potential of Hydrogen" and is used
to measure the degree of acidity or alkalinity in the outer layers of the
skin. It is measured on a scale ranging from 0 to 14 where the center of
the scale, at 7, is neutrality (neither acid nor alkaline). A reading below
7 indicates that the substance being measured is acid and above 7 is alkaline.
The pH system works in
10-fold multiples and each pH unit represents a 10-fold difference in alkalinity.
For example, a soap with a pH of 10.5 has 10-times the alkalinity of a
soap of pH 9.5.
The acid mantle, the combination of sebum (oil) and perspiration, on the skin's surface protects the skin and renders the skin less vulnerable to damage and attack by environmental factors such as sun and wind and less prone to dehydration. Normal skin pH is somewhat acid and in the range of 4.2. to 5.6. It varies from one part of the body to another and, in general, the pH of a man's skin is lower (more acid) than that of a woman's.
The Acid Mantle - Anti-oxidant, Water Repellent, Bacterial Inhibitor, and Protein Hardener
The acid mantle protects skin in several ways:
Antioxidant - The lipids (fats) in the mantle are oxidized instead of the underlying skin. This is why "whiteheads" - which are un-oxidized sebum in pores - turn into "blackheads" as the sebum is oxidized. The fats in the mantle are sacrificially oxidized to protect the underlying skin from oxidation.
Water Repellent - The fats in the mantle repel water from the skin much as the oil on a duck's feathers repels water. This keeps water from loosening and damaging the skin's outer layers of hard protective proteins.
Bacterial Inhibition - The acid pH of the mantle inhibits bacterial growth on the skin. The acid pH especially inhibits the growth of foreign, pathogenic bacteria and fungi. Thus, the skin remains healthier, and has fewer blemishes.
Maintains Protein Hardness - The outer skin proteins are made of keratin, a very hard protein, that is also used in nature to make horns on animals. Keratin must be kept at an acid pH to maintain its hardness. More alkaline pHs soften and loosen the fibers of keratin and create gaps in the protective covering. This allows more allergens, irritants, and bacteria and viruses to penetrate into the skin. Acne, skin allergies and other skin problems become more severe when the skin become more alkaline.
"Mild"
Soaps Often Damage Skin
"Mild" soaps are often alkaline (pH 9.5-11), and remove the natural acid protection as well as extracting protective lipids (fats) from the skin. In addition, such soaps often have high levels of synthetic detergents which both strip away the mantle and loosen the protective keratin proteins. Irritated and eczematous skins tend to have a more alkaline pH, and washing with soap can increase this alkaline state and make the skin even more vulnerable to irritation and infection.
For irritated skin, use a soap such as Gentle Clean or a mild baby soap.
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