Bacteria help keep skin healthy

To improve the skin condition by using soil bacteria. They break down and then excreted ammonia and simultaneously fertilize the skin physiological active substances.

We are trying to rid the skin of bacteria and buy the latest cosmetic products that promise all the more powerful and long-lasting antibacterial effect. Indeed, the microbes on the skin can cause a lot of trouble, like acne, or inflammation of the sebaceous glands, which is believed to be caused due to bacteria Propionibacterium acnes. So it is no wonder we try to keep the skin clean, washing away with it the dust, dirt and sweat as often as possible.

But not all bacteria are equally harmful. Researchers from the company AOBiome (USA) told the conference of the American society of microbiologists about the benefits to skin of nitrifying bacteria. They are found in abundance in water and soil, being important players in the nitrogen cycle. With their metabolic products are nitrite (nitrite) and nitrogen oxide NO. But just as such compounds play an important role in the physiology in the regulation of inflammation, wound healing, expansion and contraction of blood vessels. (For example, not long ago found out that nitric oxide suppresses autoimmune reaction, and this is only one of its functions, whose number is constantly growing.) In addition, nitrifying microbes could absorb ammonia, which is excreted together with sweat and disrupts the acid-alkaline balance of the skin epithelium. Therefore, the authors came up with a simple idea to put the germs on the person and see the change of skin condition.

Volunteers who agreed to experiment on the skin of the face and head inflicted with a suspension of bacteria Nitrosomonas eutropha, taken from the soil; some received beznakazanno suspension or placebo. The first two weeks, none of them did not use any shampoos, or any other means for care of hair, on the third week everything went back to its usual hygienic and cosmetic procedures.

Bacteria on humans caught on: those who were anointed bacterial substance, the DNA of nitrifying microbes a week later was detected in 83-100% of cases, and in 60% in two weeks. The main result, according to the authors, was that the condition of the skin with bacteria improved, and the stronger, the more she is left bacteria. Private N. eutropha volunteers was not specifically tested before the experiment so that the effect can be attributed entirely due to the bacterial suspension. What to side effects, they could not be found.

Action N. eutropha can have not only directly, releasing physiologically active nitrogen compounds and lowering of pH but also due to the influence on the microflora of the skin. Because no matter how we tried, from skin bacteria to the end to get rid of it is impossible, and nitrifying microbes could customize the skin's own microflora so that it behaved well. Despite the small statistics (the experiment involved 24 in total), a positive result from the presence of N. eutropha was quite obvious. However, to confirm the data obtained in the experiment, the more impressive it is still necessary, at least in order to ensure no negative side effects.