MYTH: Water drinking will expel toxins out through your skin
Does water wash out clogged pores from the inside out? Not quite. “Drinking water is good for your body, but you’re not expelling toxins out of your skin as people would like to think,” Lanning explains. But water is essential to maintaining your health, and the health of your epidermis. ”Think of your skin as the last stop on the bus route. Whatever you take in through your mouth will go through your digestive system, and through all of your different systems internally. Your skin is the last priority. Our bodies are 60% water, and when you’ve got blood that needs water, lymphatic fluid that needs water, and all these different things within your body that need water, there’s not going to be enough left once it gets to your skin.”