Does sweating really purify your skin?

Question

i recently heard that sweating is good for your skin because it purifies it by getting all the toxins out of your pores. this only works (apparently) if you shower right after working out or sweating because otherwise the sweat just sits on your skin, clogging your pores. so is it true that sweating is good for your skin, as long as you wash your face right away?

Answer 1

it takes out fatt anndd dirtt form under your skinnn its goodd to sweat alsooo if you want to lossee weight.

Answer 2

Not really, but it does get rid of impurity in you're body like AMMONIA.  

Answer 3

sweat can actually help take out dirt from your skin and it can also help cool you down when you are exercising or something i you won't even notice it for feel it.

Answer 4

Sweating doesn't actually purify the skin itself, it releases toxins from the body and in some cultures is considered a purification technique for the soul as well as the body.

Also, once you release fresh sweat you also become more attractive to the opposite s*x due to pheromones released in the sweat. Pheromones are certain hormones that, while you cannot actually smell them, release certain endorphins and hormones in the brain that attract for s*x. Very interesting subject.  

Answer 5

You sweat, but toxins likely stay

Infrared saunas have become a popular option to detoxify. But medical experts say they don't help much.

The products: We all carry the residue of modern living deep within our bodies. We get mercury from fish, pesticides from apples and polyvinyl chlorides from that "new-car smell." A 2005 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study of more than 2,000 people across the country found traces of more than 60 toxic compounds, including such nasty stuff as dioxins and uranium, in the blood and urine of participants. As the CDC noted then, nobody really knows what -- if anything -- these substances are doing to our bodies. But plenty of people are eager to get rid of them.

Worries about toxins have spawned an industry of pills, tonics, diets -- and even absorbent foot pads -- that promise to flush away, suck out or otherwise banish the poisons in our lives.

The bottom line: Sweat does contain trace amounts of toxins, says Dr. Dee Anna Glaser, a professor of dermatology at St. Louis University and founding member of the International Hyperhidrosis Society, a medical group dedicated to the study and treatment of heavy sweating.

But, Glaser, adds, in the big picture, sweat has only one function: Cooling you down when you overheat. "Sweating for the sake of sweating has no benefits," she says. "Sweating heavily is not going to release a lot of toxins."

In fact, Glaser says, heavy sweating can impair your body's natural detoxification system. As she explains, the liver and kidneys -- not the sweat glands -- are the organs we count on to filter toxins from our blood. If you don't drink enough water to compensate for a good sweat, dehydration could stress the kidneys and keep them from doing their job. "If you're not careful, heavy sweating can be a bad thing," she says.

Sweating definitely won't help clear the body of mercury or other metals, says Donald Smith, a professor of environmental toxicology at UC Santa Cruz, who studies treatments for metal poisoning. Almost all toxic metals in the body are excreted through urine or f***s, he says. And less than 1% are lost through sweat. In other words, you'll do far more detoxifying in the bathroom than you ever could in a sauna.

Prescription-strength chelation drugs such as EDTA are the only products proven to remove significant amounts of metals from the body, Smith adds.

Smith sums up his thoughts on Sunlight Saunas' detoxification contentions in one word: "Baloney."

Answer 6

h**l YA----lsd-----crank---sweat that c**p out!!   the indian culture have known this for years--------its good for you!!   even if you dont do drugs its the way to clean your bod!!!!--------------------------SWEAT LODGE!!

Answer 7

ya its true! thats why when you get a facial, they put your face in that steamer thing. so that your pores open up and are detoxified. remember heat opens pores and cols shuts them!