Your child’s skin should be smooth and glowing. Caring for your child includes making sure that his skin is always clean and moistened with oil. Scientifically, skin acts as protection from many infections and covers the internal organs, protecting them from harm.

The skin also acts as an excretory organ removing unwanted products like salts and excess water from the body; thus, it is important to always keep it clean in order to remove the products from the skin surface.

In this section, you will learn more about the scientific importance of skin and different ways of taking care of it.