Why Lipids and Sunscreen are Your Best Protection

It is a truism in natural circles that your body does its best job fighting off disease and healing itself when it has the nutritional wherewithal to do so.  This notion has even more applicability when it comes to treating your skin.  Please see the blog article, Treating Skin with Oils, for tips and advice.

Source:

N. Nicolaides, Lipids, Membranes and the Human Epidermis. The Epidermis, W. Montagna and W. C. Lobitz, Jr., New York: Academic Press p. 511 (1964).

A.M. Kligman, The Uses of Sebum, Brit. J. Dematol., 75: 307-319 (1963)

Journal of Lipid Research, Vol. 49, 1235-1245, June 2008

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