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What part of the skin is most absorbent?

hair follicles The most absorbent part of your skin are the hair follicles and pores which are all over your body. Some things absorb more slowly, and others, like medical patches, are designed to pass through quickly.

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Before we talk about your skin’s absorption process let’s outline some understanding of the basics around how and when that actually happens. The top layer of your skin is called the Epidermis and it’s made up of mostly dead skin cells that are always flaking off as their replacement cells come up from the inner most layer of the Epidermis, called the Basal Cell layer. Your skin is very good at being a protective barrier. It does this best when it is moisturized and healthy. Your skins natural oils, when moisturized, actually repels absorption. Thus, the dryer the skin the more absorbent it can be. The most absorbent part of your skin are the hair follicles and pores which are all over your body. Some things absorb more slowly, and others, like medical patches, are designed to pass through quickly. The skin absorption process works best with particles smaller than 40nm and lighter than 500 Daltan that are formed in a spherical shape. These can pass quite easily through skin. Generally what happens is that a chemical meets the criteria above, it passes through the skin, but your skin is really good at fighting it off, and most of the time a body’s enzymes will break it down before it can enter the blood stream. Given how effective the skin is most of time at protecting the body, the real question is … do we want to have chemicals in our body care products, and our home products, in the first place? It can’t be good to give the skin the chore of fighting off the chemicals, or synthetics, and breaking them down in our bodies so they don’t harm us. The bottom line? Be very careful about what you put on your body. Get in the habit of looking at the ingredients label on your personal and home products, just as you do the food that you buy. Bodylish products use sustainably sourced, plant derived ingredients in simple and effective recipes to keep skin, hair and bodies healthy and looking beautiful.

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As per the Biblical tale, as recounted in Matthew 2:1-12, an infant Jesus of Nazareth was visited in Bethlehem on the eve of his birth by Magi bearing gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. To our modern sensibilities, these three gifts don't seem quite even. Gold, then as now, is a highly valuable treasure.

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As per the Biblical tale, as recounted in Matthew 2:1-12, an infant Jesus of Nazareth was visited in Bethlehem on the eve of his birth by Magi bearing gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh.

To our modern sensibilities, these three gifts don't seem quite even. Gold, then as now, is a highly valuable treasure. But frankincense and myrrh... what even are they?

According to Simon Cotton for Chemistry World, frankincense and myrrh are sap, drawn from the Boswellia sacra and Commiphora trees, respectively. Frankincense was often burned as an incense, while myrrh made its way into medicine and perfume. In antiquity, writes Cotton, these saps were worth just as much as gold. But as modern science has shown, these Magi (or wise men or kings, as they've come to be known) may have been onto something with their gifts. More than just aromatic compounds, frankincense and myrrh have interesting medicinal properties. “From tests on mice, chemists at the University of Florence have found that molecules in myrrh act on the brain’s opioid receptors, explaining its painkilling action,” says Cotton. The key active ingredient in frankincense, boswellic acid, meanwhile, “has a structure not dissimilar from some hormones like testosterone.” Boswellic acids have anti-inflammatory and antiarthritic effects, so that they are finding pharmacological use in both East and West. These compounds seem to work by preventing the body from making pro-inflammatory compounds, whilst they also exert antitumor effects in colorectal cancer cells.

Atop its analgesic action, myrrh also seems to have anti-cancer properties.

Of the Magi's three gifts, maybe gold was the least valuable of all?

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