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WHAT IS SKIN SEBUM?

April 26, 2017sebum skin

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WHAT IS SKIN SEBUM?

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A thin sebum film on the skin surface, secreted by sebaceous glands, is an extremely important front-line protective component of our skin. One of the sebums main functions is in helping to maintain skins and tissues moisture balance. Correct skin moisture level and good sebum balance result in a healthy looking skin with a natural waxy surface. Such skin is soft, supple and young-looking. On the contrary, a skin with poor sebum balance looks dull and ash-dry, with many tiny wrinkles covering the entire skin surface. KEEP THE SEBUM, KEEP LOOKING YOUNG More severe cases of sebum imbalance can result in excess skin surface scale. These can form due to either dry waxy sebum (seborrhea sicca) or due to excessively oily sebum (seborrhea oleosa). Skin inflammation (seborrheic dermatitis) is an extreme and direct manifestation of severe sebum imbalance. Unfortunately all these conditions are relatively common in our modern lifestyle. Often our skin glands can not generate enough of this preci