Why should we wear silk clothes?
Silk is known as the "Queen of Fibers". Clothes made of silk are thin, smooth, soft, breathable, comfortable to wear, and elegant, making them ideal summer fabrics. Silk has been loved by people for thousands of years because of its unique charm. With the development of modern science and technology, the benefits brought by the natural characteristics of silk to people are gradually being recognized by people, and the unique medical and health functions and effects of silk clothing are also increasingly used in people's real lives.
What are the benefits of wearing silk clothes for health?
1. Silk clothing has good breathability
The main function of clothes is to protect the body from the influence of external temperature and humidity, absorb and release moisture, sweat and secretions excreted from the skin, and keep the skin clean.
Studies have shown that the order of moisture permeability of clothing is: man-made fiber; raw silk; wool; kapok; glass fiber; silk.
According to measurements, the temperature inside the clothes reaches 33°C and the relative humidity exceeds 80% under rapid activity. When the microclimate temperature inside the clothes is 32°C±1°C and the relative humidity is 50%±10%, the human body feels most comfortable. Actual measurements show that the humidity between the thighs of silk briefs is 72%, while that of cotton or synthetic fibers is 90%. Because silk has good moisture permeability and warmth retention, it can quickly absorb the moisture and heat emitted by the human body and dissipate it to the outside world as soon as possible, thereby ensuring the skin's function of regulating body temperature and benefiting the human body's metabolism.
2. Silk clothing has a unique auxiliary treatment effect on skin diseases
Silk protein contains a variety of amino acids, which can accelerate the metabolism of human skin.
Silk is a fiber made of two parallel monofilaments through sericin, of which fibroin contains 70%-75% and sericin contains 25%-30%. Both fibroin and sericin contain 18 essential amino acids for the human body, and the amino acid content is much higher than pearls, and the nitrogen content is 37 times higher than pearls. Among them, leucine can enhance cell metabolism and promote wound healing; serine and suan acid can prevent and treat skin aging; glycine can prevent damage caused by solar radiation. Therefore, patients with eczema and skin diseases of different morbidities can speed up wound healing and promote improvement of the condition by changing silk underwear or bandaging the affected part with silk fabric.
3. Silk clothing has a unique sunscreen effect
It can absorb ultraviolet rays and protect the skin from ultraviolet damage. Under sunlight, some amino acids in silk first undergo photooxidation, and thus gradually change color. Usually we find that snow-white silk clothing gradually turns yellow under sunlight, which is because silk absorbs ultraviolet rays. Therefore, silk clothing has the effect of keeping the skin white and healthy and preventing sunburn.
In the Middle East, due to the dry climate and strong direct sunlight, women there use silk gauze to cover their faces and silk clothing to cover their bodies, effectively preventing ultraviolet damage to the skin.
