This may help: "The skin, nails and hair, and muscles are also all affected adversely by acidity. For example, the an acidic person may have acidic sweat, dry skin, fungal diseases, hives, itches, pimples, and eczema . Furthermore, the skin tends to be red and irritated in regions where there are heavy concentrations of sweat like the knees, elbows, underarms, or even around openings such as the eyes, mouth, anus, and vulva. Affects on the hair and nails include thinning nails that split and break easily, white streaks or spots on nails, and hair that has split ends, looks dull, and falls out in noticeable amounts. Symptoms of the muscles include stiff neck and a general sensation of aching all over, leg cramps and spasms, and muscles of the neck and shoulders are hard and painful. Perhaps some of the most symptoms of acidity affect the skeletal and joint system. Some of these symptoms include rickets, mineral and calcium depletion of the skeleton, osteoporosis, joints crack, vertebrae locks up, rheumatism, arthritis, sciatica, slipped vertebrae, tendonitis, lumbar pains, gout, etc."www.acid-alkalinediet.com
Skin at pH2 or 3 would be bubbling off and burning! Your stomach is pH 2
The acid mantle is usually about 4 to 5.5.
Stripping it leaves it open to infection. Both acidic and alkaline skin is irritated skin.