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The Impact of Bases on Skin
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Works Cited
The Dangers of Acids and Bases - pH7 - Neutralising Hazards, https://ph7.co.nz/the-dangers-of-acids-and-bases/. Accessed 24 February 2024.
“An antiaging skin care system containing alpha hydroxy acids and vitamins improves the biomechanical parameters of facial skin.” NCBI, 19 December 2014, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4277239/. Accessed 24 February 2024.
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“What Is Your Skin's pH and Why Does It Matter?” Cleveland Clinic Health Essentials, 28 June 2023, https://health.clevelandclinic.org/what-is-skin-ph. Accessed 24 February 2024.
Reactions of Bases to our Skin
- The bases react with our oils and fatty tissues.
- This can lead to skin extensives and to subtaneous tissue.
- When strong bases touch the skin it is able to burn as badly as strong acids would.
Reactions of Acids to our Skin
Questions:
- What are the normal affects of acidic damage or damages from bases?
- Chemical burns, scarring, or your skin will feel slippery
- Why is this affective?
- It can cause the ph of your skin to alkaline or ooverly acidic.
- Strong acids can cause the skin to melt. shrink, and shrivel up
- React by the pores of your skin can close up
- Can donate protons which can change the chemical structire of you protiens.
- Denaturing; (taking away natural qualities)
The Impact of Bases and Acids on Skin
By: Lindsey Truong
Where They Normally Found?
What is being done about this?
- Tropical treatment with weak acids such as 5%
- Regimens such as barrer products and mositurizer
- To help zinc-oxide based barriers coat and shield the skin from moisture and irritants
Bases:
- the most common/ strongest bases are calcium hydroxiode, sodium hydroxide, and pottasium hydroxide
Acids:
- Any ionic inorganic acid is terrible for you skin even the organic acids aren't that great for your skin but they won't burn through you skin like nitric acid
Why Should We Care?
- Can cause severe chemical burns
- Damage the protiens in your skin
- The ph skin becomes too acidic or basic
- (Dryness and Flakiness)
- Increse chances inflammatory skin conditions like eczema and acne