Let’s be honest here: pasty won’t cut it for you when it comes to your skin. Good thing is there are skin care tips to restore a head-to-glow when the sun comes out from hiding.
That said, skin care can become complicated at times. With all the products and skin care tips each touting to have the perfect solution you are looking for to achieve a healthy skin, you might often find yourself looking for clear information.
Remember there is no magic bullet that will keep your skin looking young forever, but diet, lifestyle, attitude, and skincare treatment does affect how your skin looks over time. Follow these 4 steps for the utmost results.
1. Take Care of Stress
Stress takes a toll on every part of your body, including the largest organ i.e. skin. A study titled Psychological Stress Perturbs Epidermal Permeability Barrier Homeostasis found that stress negatively affects the skin’s barrier function, causing water loss that limits the skin to repair itself from damage.
Specifically, it involved 27 students and showed how high stress impacted their skin response to repeated stripping of a cellophane tape on their forearms vs. lower stress periods. It took longer for the skin to recover from tape stripping in highly stressful periods, concluded the study.
Although stress is unavoidable, there are ways to manage it. For example, adequate sleep keeps cortisol (the hormone that causes stress) to a minimum and fight of lines, and dry skin. To get more Zs, avoid eating 2-3 hours before bed and establish a routine that allows you to calm down before bedtime.
2. Push Towards Laser Treatment
Laser hair treatment is considered as less painful to other treatments, such as electrolysis. Springen reveals that laser removal treatment has been ranking as one of the most popular non-surgical cosmetic skin treatment methods in the US for the past several years.
Laser hair removal results in softer, silkier skin, and unlike traditional hair removal methods, this procedure does not cause too much skin irritation or skin damage; it helps in creating a smoother skin surface instead.
With advances in laser hair removal technology, most specialists are safely able to treat patients regardless of the skin tone. You can find a laser hair treatment clinic in all major cities in the US (even non-coastal/southern regions like Colorado), including clinics that provide other skin treatment services like skin rejuvenation to augment the smoother skin resulting from laser treatment.
3. Take a Look at your Cleanser
Seems counterintuitive doesn’t it? But if you’re someone with dry skin, your choice of face wash becomes even more important than your moisturizer. A mild cleanser is recommended as it helps in replacing the moisture barrier in your skin. You can use it to prevent psoriasis, eczema, and dryness even before these issues flare up.
Acne doesn’t affect only teens. Drying soaps can aggravate your sensitive areas of the skin, making it acne prone and increasing the chances of breakouts. But mild skin cleansers help in soothing inflamed skin and prevent acne.
Also, oily skin too can benefit from mild cleansers. This is because when more oil is stripped away with the use harsh cleansers, your glands will produce more sebum to counteract the drying effect. And if your skin is already producing extra oil, harsh cleansers can make it go into overdrive. Prevent your skin from drying out too often and oil glands from producing extra sebum with the help of mild skin cleaners.
4. Watch your Diet
A healthy diet consisting of foods and supplements that promote skin health is essential for an everlasting effect on your skin. It should consist of proteins, essentials fats, vitamin rich fruits and vegetables, with a special focus on foods that are universally deemed as good for your skin.
For example, eating Vitamin E rich foods will prevent cell damage to your skin from free radicals, and help prevent your skin against ultraviolet skin diseases. Almonds, turnip greens, mustard greens and spinach are a few excellent sources of this nutrient. Likewise, Vitamin C food such as papaya, kale and mustard greens help in production of collagen and protecting skin cells from radical damage.
Also, include more skin-smoothing fruits such as blueberries in your daily diet. The US Department of Agriculture analysis says that blueberries have 40 percent more antioxidant capacity than strawberries, and they are high in nutrients that help strengthen collagen production, thereby reducing skin aging signs. They can be effortlessly added to the morning breakfast or eaten on their own as a healthy power snack.
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