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Re:The forgotten joy of soap by icebraining on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @07:48AM (#20390838)
> For the first month, my skin was so greasy all the time (...), but then my skin finally adjusted to the new normal.

Do we know the scientific explanation for this? What makes the skin change its oil production levels?

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Re:The forgotten joy of soap by kstenerud on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @07:56AM (#20390880)
My guess would be that my skin was used to having all its natural oils washed off regularly, and had compensated by overproducing oil. Once I stopped washing the natural oils off, it took awhile for it to readjust.
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Re:The forgotten joy of soap by icebraining on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @08:04AM (#20390931)
That makes sense, but I'm wondering how it does that.
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Re:The forgotten joy of soap by natex on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @12:13PM (#20393316)
How would skin know that it should overproduce oil? Does skin know if it's not oily enough?
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Re:The forgotten joy of soap by stronglikedan on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @12:22PM (#20393441)
It's an organ, so, like other organs, it probably knows what it has to do to do its organly work.
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Re:The forgotten joy of soap by novok on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @01:08PM (#20394077)
Skin notices it feels dry due to oil being stripped by soap, creates more oil to compensate.
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