Skin Care Tips for Oily Skin and Dry Skin Symptoms

Skin care routines and skin care tips for oily skin have significant importance in our daily life. We can never store any liquid in a container having holes in floor or base. Our body is made up over 70% of water and it looks quite strange that this huge amount of water is kept in such a container (skin) having millions of holes (pores) in it. Then why we don’t get dehydrated by losing water through millions of pores in our skin. 

Thin Oily layer of our Skin has significant importance. Photo by Skeeze

Allah Almighty with His great wisdom has placed a thin layer of oil in upper layers of our skin. As a result, water inside our body can’t pass through this oily layer and thus we don’t loose any significant water through our skin. Now, you can well imagine, what will happen if we loose this important oily layer of our skin? If you have dry skin, you are absolutely facing one or more of the following symptoms:

Dry Skin Symptoms

The main dry skin symptoms are:

In newborn babies, thick scales and crusts on scalp and redness on cheeks or other parts of body.

White patches on the face of youngsters, these are not due to lack of calcium.

After showering, taking bath or swimming, a feeling of tightness or tautness.

A loss of plumpness, skin appears shrunken or dehydrated, feels and looks rough rather than smooth.

Itching which sometimes may be intense.

Slight to severe flaking or scaling, fine lines or cracks, severe redness and deep cracks especially on soles/ palms which may bleed.

The toe webs become prickly, dry and rough due to mixing of chemicals in soaps and shampoos.

The nail cuticle is lost and skin around the nail becomes red swollen and painful due to the chemicals in soaps and detergents.