On: Skin health can be used to predict a number of see...

[michael1999]

I wonder how much of the value of moisturizing is from massaging the tissue and working waste into the lymphatic or circulatory systems for disposal.

[meristohm → michael1999]

I've been wondering this, too, and remembering back to childhood when my mom advised always moving from extremities inward towards the heart (sunscreen, toweling off, etc).

[_Microft → meristohm]

Isn't that because moving away from the heart would force blood back against venous valves, possibly doing damage to them?

[femto → michael1999]

You could test this by comparing people who wet shave daily with those who don't. Lathering on the skin during wet shaving delivers an incidental massage.

[AnEro → michael1999]

For aestetics little to none, for overal health and bloating probably better than with think but not as much as we'd like