raw foods: I recently started eating mainly raw fruits and vegetables and green foods such as, spirulina and chlorella and some sea kelp, Why is my skin so dry?|||Do you normally have excessively oily skin or just oily? Oily skin is not 'genetic' as dermatologists claim, your body does everything for a reason, excessively oily skin is due to the body trying to remove toxins from the body, this may indicate a high toxin load/high vegetable oil intake, and/or not drinking enough water {1/2 your body weight in ounces of filtered water per day {fltered from Chlorine/Fluoride, cancer causing chemicals in the water supply}} If so, then your body is detoxifying, your body removes dirt from a select few mediums: faeces, urine, sweat, flem/nose, and the skin. If you have cut back on consuming vegetale oils like Sunflower oil, which causes oily skin, and inflammation, then this could be the reason. Further, if not, the raw food diet causes the liver to detox, and thus makes it release all the toxins, making it more efficient in removing further toxins/dirt in the body that may reside in the skin/blood/adipose tissue{fat layers}. This could be the reason for the dry skin. To remedy the dry skin, massage into the face/body Virgin Cocconut Oil, and consume 1-4tablespoons per day after meals. This is an anti-fungal/anti-pathogen oil, which kills bacteria, viruses and fungi, it also kills the bacteria under the arm-pits {usually attached to the hair or on the surface of the skin, bacteria thrive here in everyone as it is a moist/damp area} which cause the odour/smell, use the cocconut oil as a deoderant, or in conjuction with Baking soda, added to a make-up remover pad and a little warm water. Watch here for more information: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcbqjEm0E鈥?/a> Conventional deoderants are not regulated, and contain many carcinogens and heavy metals, which can cause breast cancer, it also dry's the skin unnaturally, causing irritation, and flaky skin. http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2004/j鈥?/a> Hope this helps.|||Probably because a raw food diet tends to be deficient in Omega 3's you get primarily from seafood. I had the same experience when I was on a raw food diet. My skin returned to normal after I started eating more protein and fish. You might try omega 3 supplements|||add a spoonful of extra virgin olive oil. have flaxseed oil with yougurt. both are extremely good for the body.