Very Dry Skin

Your skin feels tight. It feels like paper — thin, rough, without suppleness. Perhaps it cracks on your hands, flakes on your face, itches at your elbows. You moisturise, you care for it, you drink more water — and still the feeling remains: as though the surface of your body is drying out, no matter what you apply from the outside.

Medically speaking, your skin lacks moisture and fat. The barrier function is disrupted — the skin loses water faster than it can retain it. Hormonal changes, environmental factors, genetic predisposition — the list of explanations is long. But the psychosomatic perspective asks a different question: Why is it specifically your skin that dries out — this organ that is simultaneously your outermost boundary to the world and your most intimate organ of contact?

Dry skin is not a cosmetic problem. It is an image of something within you that no longer flows.