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Friday 10 May 2013

Daily beauty skincare regime


More than just skin deep...

This week the nutrition team have been discussing ways to make your skin look and feel radiant so even if the sun isn't shining, your skin will be.

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More Than Just Skin Deep...
With the wet weather determined to hang around for another week, many of us may be starting to feel the doom and gloom of the cloudy grey skies.
So this week we have been discussing ways to make your skin look and feel radiant so even if the sun isn’t shining, your skin will be.

Your Daily Skin care regime

There are several important things to remember when it comes to treating your skin. What you put into your body can really affect your skin; poor diet, a stressful lifestyle and pollutants can all disrupt your liver and digestive health thus compromising your skins health. So we recommend you follow a healthy diet and drink lots of water along with a healthy daily beauty regime so that you can be both beautiful on the inside and out. Remember what you put on your skin is absorbed so it is best to use natural ingredients. We also recommend that you use your skin regime in the morning to wake up your beautiful face and in the evening to wash away all the impurities of the day.

Women washing her face

Your daily beauty regime…

How is best to wash your face
When you wash your face use only water and pat your face gently dry with a clean face towel. Try not to use anything abrasive on your face; the skin is so fragile in this area. This applies to the use of scrubs to exfoliate; this should be a very gentle process. Scrubs can make your face feel soft for a short while but all they do is strip away a layer of delicate skin leaving it vulnerable to further damage.

After washing your face these are the stages you should follow... Cleanse
Use a good product that contains ingredients like rose water, coconut oil, almond oil and tea tree oil. Apply to a muslin cloth and gently massage the skin to remove any dirt and make up that may be blocking the pores.
When removing eye makeup use ingredients (or products with ingredients) that are refreshing and gentle such as cold brewed honey bush tea, the eye area is delicate so using the right product is essential.

Tone
Try to use ingredients such as apple and cucumber as they contain Alpha Hydroxy Acids (AHA) which penetrates the skin layer to break up dead cells and remove any dirt. These combined with drops of vitamin A (retinyl palmitate or retinyl acetate) will help to nourish and hydrate the skin.

Moisturise
This will act as a seal. During moisturising you want to try and get all of your nutrients in to protect collagen by providing your skin with antioxidants. Use a cream containing Vitamin A and after following this regime for a month add a vitamin C cream. Vitamin C is great from protecting collagen, reducing scaring and any possible visible lines. Vitamin C doesn’t agree with everyone so it is best that you build up the amount you apply to the skin to see if it works for you. Eye Gel
Apply a little of a cream containing Coenzyme Q10 around your eyes and night time to reduce any fine lines and protect collagen.

1 comment:

  1. Thank you Samantha, for your nice skincare tips. I'll follow your advice and will apply eye gel and cream that contain coenzyme q10.

    Keep writing profitable blog posts like this one.
    Regards,
    Alison Clarke
    obagi nu derm starter kit

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