Take Care of the Skin

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Apr 12, 1906

Take Care of the Skin

WE should remember the skin is not only a covering for the body, but a most important depurating surface as well; that is, it serves a very important part in the work of carrying out of the body certain impurities of a very poisonous character. When the skin ceases to act, serious symptoms soon make their appearance. Experiments have been made with animals, in which the varnishing of the skin resulted in producing death in a few hours. If frequent bathing is neglected, especially in summer-time, when a large amount of poisonous matter is eliminated through the skin, this very important eliminative organ becomes clogged, or rather, so covered over with impurities that its work is necessarily interfered with. A daily, or at least a tri-weekly, bath will be found to add much to the comfort, as well as to the cleanliness and health, of the person.

The skin also breathes. A dirty skin necessarily breathes bad air, and unquestionably absorbs back into the system impurities which are allowed to accumulate upon it.—Selected.