Estrogen, Smoking and the Skin
Smokers have bad skin. That is something that you can observe if you know one. You don’t really need to have a scientific proof of the fact – but I have just come across some interesting research about it reported in the IFSCC magazine.
It won’t come as a surprise to anyone in possession of a menstrual cycle that there is an effect of the time of the month on the condition of the skin. This has now been quantified by some dutch workers who were able to work out an equation showing that there is a direct relationship between estrogen levels and the level of moisturisation of the skin.
They produce a graph plotting moisturisation level against estrogen level showing the link beyond all doubt. When we look at the condition of someone’s skin we are actually looking at the effect of the level of their sex hormones.
Smoking reduces the level of estrogen so it will also lead to your skin being drier. There are quite a lot of reasons not to smoke, and I suppose that dry skin is not the most serious. But it is another reason to give up smoking.
Reference
Evidence for the Existence of a Body-Brain Connection for Skin Moisturisation IFSCC Magazine vol 10, no 3 2007
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