When it comes to moisturizers, they can be too rich or too thick. Serious skin care goes well beyond cold cream and petroleum jelly, today’s skin care products are remedies for dry skin and are packed with sophisticated ingredients. Now, natural skin care companies think they have fixed final frontier, ten-ply cashmere of hydration: super rich, long-lasting, and ultra-healing.

Dry skin is a probably most common complaint. In a recent survey, 60% of a sample of women cited it as their top serious skin care concern, even ahead of wrinkles. Over 70% said their body was dry in winter and 40% said it was their face (vs. 34% and 15%, respectively, in summer).

Since 1970s, scientists have reported a global rise in frequency of dry skin. Nobody knows why for sure. Part of answer is linked to increase in people’s exposure to chemicals, pollution, and acid rain. Our hydration expectations have shifted from flawlessly powdered, matte skin to more realistic dewy complexions.

Serious skin care experts also state dry skin is a topic that is commonly discussed. There is no standard definition for condition. Even if you recognize it only by its symptoms: scaling, tightness, lines, irritation, and itchiness. The immediate cause is a disturbance in skins outermost layer, which is made up of skin cells and lipids, fatty substances that help maintain moisture in skin. When balance of lipids get upset, skin loses water, and skin cells, normally shed unnoticed, accumulate as white flakes.

The idea is to provide enough combined supplementation for our bodies to make an abundance of healthy collagen which is connective tissue used to create cartilage and bones. Collagen also ‘binds’ our cells together and as a result, someone with good collagen has healthy looking skin whereas another will have thin and wrinkled skin.

A healthy bone cut in half looks similar to a sponge. The body deposits calcium, phosphorus and other minerals onto all of those connective fibers and you get healthy bones! The holes give bone its flexibility, and you won’t have healthy bones if you don’t have plenty of collagen on which to deposit minerals.

Collagen is primarily a protein which is made from amino acids. Our bodies can create some of our requirements but we also need additional amounts from our foods and supplements including lysine and praline. Vitamin C is also required to create collagen.