Skin care and sun exposure

The contrary attitude

Dermatology, skin care, aesthetics and cosmetics all try to preserve your skin when you're supposed to assist its natural exfoliation system by grooming it.
No wonder it deteriorates the way it does.

Skin peeling and flaking

Dead epidermis cells are supposed to strip off daily.
The process is called desquamation.
Skin flakes, scurf and dandruff are normal reactions.
You should not try to conserve these old peels.
Anything you put on your skin that hampers their shedding is detrimental.

Naturally equipped

Sebum is a natural lubricant.
It is spread over your skin while grooming.
It locks moisture in while keeping the lines of communication between your skin and the outside open.
Your body has over five million sebaceous glands acting like five million little natural cream tubes.
Your sebum has been standing almost idle in these glands for all your life.
This is the natural substance your skin wants and needs.

No creams, nor lotions

You should not put any cream or lotion on your skin.
You think you are protecting it, when in fact you are harming it.
It is seeking liberation, then you harness it.
You don't want to preserve old skin.
How do you want superficial flakes to cast off if they are covered with a retaining agent?
Only when your skin is damaged, cut, bruised, burned or sunburned should you resort to creams and ointments.
Even then, the injury should be severe. For light scratchings and contusions, your skin is best left alone to heal with proper air contact.

Mixed up skin

Your skin is already crying for your help to rid it of its folding and excessive thickening.
Putting alien agents on it such as creams and make-up gets it confused about its own state.
Their moisturizing agents contradict its urge to exfoliate.
How should it react to all these opposite signals?
Your skin gets really mixed-up. But in the end, the dead epidermis cells remain in place all nice and shiny.

Cosmetics and make-up

The natural look will become the norm when groomed skin appears.
There is no possible comparison.
Groomed skin is it.
Even just a few minutes of grooming give your skin a shine and a radiance that cosmetics cannot parallel.
Blood is rushed in abundance to irrigate the outer skin layers.
This changes its tint, texture, gloss and transparency while it equalizes various areas.
Look at the skin of a baby and you will see this proximity of the blood with the surface.

Loss of interest

Once you've started grooming, you will stop putting on make-up.
You will immediately find out that your skin is much more attractive and beautiful when left unadorned.
You will also grasp how unhealthy putting unknown chemicals on your new pride is.
Anyway, there is no way grooming and make-up can cohabit.
Putting anything on freshly opened folds and crossings is painful and could be hazardous to your health.
Worse of all, you can't groom when you have make-up on your face.

Harmful

Using cosmetics is disrespectful of yourself and others as well as being detrimental to your skin.
It becomes choked with no air access.
Communication with the outside world is cut.
How can you do that to it?
Don't you think it's a natural living organ?
You skin needs direct air, water and sun exposure.
Treat it better, it's you.

Respect your skin

The way humans generally treat their skin is disrespectful of this remarkable creation.
They don't seem to realize that this is an organ and has to be cared for.
What can I say about practices such as tattooing, piercing, permanent make-up, botox and aesthetic or plastic surgery?
Your skin is not a toy.
Your lack of respect for it reveals your lack of respect for yourself.

 

Sun exposure

There is an appalling attitude emanating from the scientific community exhorting humans to stay away from direct sunlight.
Wearing clothes or applying sun cream are liberating shortcuts for you, but what about your skin?
Your body needs several hours of daily exposure to our old friend and benefactor.

Rational sun exposure

The idea is to stay away from the scorching sun.
Your skin is the judge, it will tell you how it feels about receiving the sunlight and alert you when it has enough, but you must be watchful of its signals.
Unless you are physically mobile and active or near a body of water, don't try to withstand its rays for extended periods.
Use your best judgment and monitor conditions continuously.
Get in and out of the sunshine.
Take shade if you have too much, but go right back out when you can.

Tan and sunburn

Tanning is a natural skin protection process in which melanin molecule production is increased.
Their dark pigmentation and shape act as a shield, warding your skin against the rays of the sun.
There is a limit to their action and taking shade is often the proper course of action.
For populations living in regions where seasonal changes force a loss of tan, great care should be taken when reexposing it in the spring.
Sunburn is terrible, you want to avoid it at any cost.
This being said, the effects of sunburn gets worse every year if the charred cells aren't removed by grooming them off.

Tanning and science

Science considers tanning as an excessive and abnormal condition.
I strongly disagree.
Your skin is equipped to thrive in direct sunlight and has wonderful systems to extract all it can from its warming energy
The amount of melanin produced is variable depending on the sunshine received.
Nothing could be more natural.
Now, sunburn is something else and should not be confused with tanning.
You can maintain a deep tan without burning your skin.
You are responsible for monitoring excess heat at all times.
It is important to make the distinction between tanning and sunburn clear even to young children.
Tanning is healthy, sunburn is an injury.

The cancer story

The link between sunburn and skin cancer is highly documented.
Here also, the assumption is that both healthy exposure and overexposure are detrimental.
Examples of healthy exposures picture people living in natural conditions such as fishermen.
In my view, fishermen have a completely wrong attitude towards sun exposure and should not be taken as examples of any natural behavior.
No animal would do that.
They are showing us exactly what to avoid by staying in the scorching sun without caring about their skin.
Most cancer information papers take the skin of nuns (who seldom go outside) as examples of healthy skin.
No!
A healthy behavior surely can include lots of sun without causing any damage, on the contrary.

Ungroomed sunburned skin

Skin cancer information points out that most of the damage is done during one's youth, a period where more exposure occurs.
This shows how lightly educated children are about sunburn and taking shade.
Once the skin is scorched, part of it will peel off within the next few days.
It is what remains that causes problems.
Some burned epidermis cells are buried into the skin by folding action and stay trapped in there for life.
In some cases, the body reacts to their presence.
The point is that these cells are supposed to be groomed off before damage is done.
Therefore, tanning is not the culprit, lack of grooming is.

Taking the sun

We often see animals around us enjoying the sunshine.
Several documentaries present entire herds basking in the sun.
The energy from its rays is converted by the skin into physical strength and stamina.
Those animals are intelligent enough to take just what they need, then get out of its radiance.
Humans have lost part of their protection with the thinning of their fur.
But humans seem to also have lost part of their brain in the operation, forgetting their animality and submitting their skin to the worst offenses.

Being active under the sun

I think God has a precise idea of what you should be doing under the sun though.
It's called moving your ass, being active.
Anyway, if you stay in place, you cook.
You have to move if you want your cooling system to work.
The air you set in motion by going around, reacts with your sweat, creating a cooling sensation.
This forms a layer of fresh air that surrounds your body.
You have to move fast enough for this to happen.
If you are nude and speeding around, your motion will keep you nice and cool. Clothing hinders this process almost completely.

Vitamin D

Vitamin D is produced in skin that is exposed to sunlight.
It performs essential tasks in the maintenance of several organs.
It regulates your blood's calcium and phosphorous levels that are so important for bone formation and strength, as well as helping your immune system.
Since humans don't take enough sunshine, vitamin D is artificially added to their food, namely in milk.
This is synthetic vitamin D.
So, because of the unwillingness of our parents to get out into the sun, we all are forced to intake this artificial substitute.

Clothes and sun cream

Wear as little clothing as you can.
Try to expose every part of your body periodically.
Wear clothes for protection, not vanity.

Sun creams are a joke, but a bad one.
They are the symbol of foolish sun exposure.
Well tanned skin needs no protection.
I spend my entire summers without putting on any sun cream and my skin never burns even though I spend several hours a day under direct sunlight.
I take care of my skin and would not let it burn.
I go very slowly in the spring, starting with five minute exposures.
Putting sun cream on children is a deresponsibilising gesture that gives them false ideas about their skin.
Sun creams are far worse than clothes because of the chemicals that get into your poor skin, already suffocated by their presence.

Evolutionary obligation

Some people claim that, because of the thinning of the ozone layer and because we have less fur than before, humans skin has lost its ability to endure the rays of our life sustaining star.
I challenge any assertion that ultraviolet rays cause cancer.
Cancer occurs years later because their damage is left ungroomed.
In any case, we have to ask ourselves what we want for our future.
We can let our skin become less and less adapted to life on earth by seeking artificial protection.
We may be forcing our grandchildren to life indoors by refusing to push our skin to adapt.
If conditions change on this planet, should we not all try to evolve along with them?

 

New skin care

So how should you take care of your skin?
Two hours of grooming a day is my first recommendation.
Try to groom your entire skin surface during this time period.
Immerse your body in water at least once daily.
After bathing, your skin may become quite dry, it may even have flaking patches.
Do not put any moisturizing agent on it.
Let it find its own balance.
Use mild soap and shampoo.
Expose your skin to the sun for several hours every time the sky is blue. If it rains, give it fresh air
After a grooming session, direct sunlight heals your skin. You will feel its benefits immediately.
Don't put on any decorative elements. Jewelry, clothes and make-up are disrespectful of your skin.
Inspect it manually and visually.
Touching and caressing it are both winners