Colin’s Beauty Pages

Welcome to the new year and my first post of 2008.  I would have posted sooner but in the haze of Christmas I forgot my password and had to dig through piles of papers to retreive it.

 The groggy head has now cleared and I feel the need to address the issue of detoxification following the holiday excesses.

Well I don’t think that there are many cosmetics that have any serious effect on toxins in the body.  The body deals with toxins using the liver rather than the skin.  Products like those tea bag things that you put on your feet overnight are simply ridiculous.  So lets leave internal detoxification to the nutritionists and the liver - remembering while we are at it that nutritionists only have a few hundred years of scientific data to go on whereas the liver is the product of billions of years of evolution.  It wouldn’t have got this far if it weren’t pretty good at its job.

So does the skin need a detox regime?  Probably not.  The skin is continually renewing itself.  Dead skin cells fall from the surface and are replaced from below.  The best way to detox it then is probably to simply stay alive.  Lets hope that that at least is a resolution we can all keep in 2008.