Sunday, May 12, 2013

Caring For Your Skin

By Cristine Sphan


Genetic and environmental factors will cause a lot of wear and tear to your skin throughout your life. However, you can start caring for your skin at any age. In fact, an essential part of your health, fitness, and beauty regime should be skin care and protection.

Damage prevention is the first step of skin care. Sun, wind, pollutants, and simply aging can degrade the condition of your skin. Common complaints include dry and itchy skin, wrinkles, sagging, and age spots. Below are some steps that you can take to keep your skin looking and feeling its best:

Exercise, rest, and good nutrition lay the foundation for beautiful, healthy skin, inside and out. For your skin to maintain and repair cells, it requires vitamins, minerals, and nutrients. A proper diet helps to ensure this, and is good for your overall health. Drink plenty of water. Remember that water helps to hydrate the skin and move waste and nutrients through the system.

Protecting your skin from the damaging rays of the sun is the most important way to care for your skin. Wrinkles, premature aging, age spots, and cancer can all be a result of damaging ultraviolet radiation. Using sunscreen helps protect your skin from the sun's rays. But too much is not good either. Some daily sunlight is beneficial for your skin.

Dry skin is not unusual, especially with age. There are more sweat and oil glands in younger skin than in older skin. Dry skin can be a result of certain cosmetics, frequent baths, or some medications. If possible, cut back on the number of baths or showers each week, and avoid using harsh soaps when bathing. Try using a natural, mild soap that does not contain any dyes or perfumes, when you do use soap. Follow up the bath with a moisturizer. Keep skin healthy by continuing to moisturize throughout the day. Your hands and face may need to be moisturized several times; they are particularly susceptible to daily damage.

Develop a Skin Care Routine

Ensure you are taking the very best care of your skin by developing some kind of skin care routine based on your skin type, daily activities, and nutritional needs. Following a daily skin care regime will also allow you to more closely evaluate your skin for abnormalities.

Create a specific washing routine for yourself. Wash your skin thoroughly every day to remove the pollutants, dirt, debris, and perspiration that build up daily. if you have sensitive or dry skin, wash with only warm water and use a mild natural cleanser every few days. If you have normal or oily skin, be sure to wash with a gentle cleanser on a daily basis.

Your washing routine should include moisturizing. Unless you have very oily skin, a daily moisturizer is important to keep your skin hydrated. Both indoor winter heat and summer sun can be equally damaging to your skin, so it needs moisturizer all year long.

Make sure protection is a part of your daily skin program. Again, use a natural sunscreen when possible, regardless of whether or not you plan on spending much time in the sun. If you get in the habit of applying sunscreen everyday, you will never be left without protection from the sun's damaging rays.




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