Skin Care Myths: Drinking More Water Will Hydrate Your Skin
This is a popular one, perpetuated by fitness and fashion magazines.
Only one study ever linked drinking water with skin hydration. That study used expensive mineral water, not plain bottled or tap water, and the study didn’t have a control group.
No study has ever shown regular water has any impact on your skin and no controlled study has ever shown that any type of drinking water has an effect on your skin.
From a physiologic perspective, drinking water could only have a negligible impact on your skin’s hydration. In fact, patients who have too much water in their tissues (edema) do not have healthy skin. For example, patients with venus insufficiency who have swollen, fluid filled legs have skin that is often dry, itchy, and scaly.
The amount of water in your skin after a 5 minute shower is magnitudes higher than you could achieve by trying to hydrate it from the inside out. The key is to apply a cream or ointment when your skin is still wet to seal in the moisture.
Then drink as little or as much water as you like.
Hi !
I’m not sure about what the article says about the negligible impact on the skin by drinking water. Because my doctor said that when a person is dehydrated if you pinch the skin it is going to take longer time to go back in place (less elasticity) and the eyes of a dehydrated person will look more shallow (inside their holes) so I think that there is a huge impact on the skin by drinking water. average quantity for an adult: 2 l./day
2L looks very small amount.
Drinking plenty of water has made my skin beautiful. I get compliments on my skin every day. A week after drinking 60 oz a day, all my red spots disappeared, thin wrinkles vanished, and my skin looked dewy and beautiful. Because I drink water I do not need foundation.
Drinking water also helps clear up acne. It actually works too.
drink as little water as we like? hmm, are you working for coca-cola? Frankly, I loathe these kind of contradictory articles just in the name of “other side of the story”. Kudos for water!!
Less water? You gotta be kidding.
Water is what flushes out toxins from every cell in your body. You can’t drink to much water and cause your legs to swell. What causes water retintion is an excess of impurityes in the body mainly acids. When the body is over staurated with acids and toxins it goes into shock and places the toxins and acids in cells where it will do the least damage until the body gets enough fresh water to flush out the toxins.
Drink more water for better health everywere in your body!