Care of Your Skin

There are lots of reasons to appreciate, even cherish for the body you have. For one thing, accepting yourself is a lot more fun, and wastes away less time, than constantly consuming over what you don't like, don't have etc. Your body is yours, uniquely yours, to use, take care of, and to treasure. Your mind rules your body, so learn simple ways to keep your body in line! You don't need to diet to lose weight and maintain it.

In fact 99% of dieters regain what they lost and gain even more weight. Instead of useless and frustrating diets, try simple, research-proven tips for keeping slim, trim and well.

Dry itchy skin. After a warm bath, try one of the light "dry" oil sprays to direct moisturizer in hard to reach areas like the small of the back. Avoid chlorine, harsh bubble baths or super-hot bath or shower water until the condition improves. Use a lotion or crème every day before you dress to keep skin soft and comfortable all day.

Healthy and beautiful eyes enhance one’s general beauty. Protect and Include eye care in your daily face care program. A good face care tip for eye protection is rest. If daily face care treatment of the eyes is not followed, the eyes will become red, heavy and drooping. Without regular face care, wrinkles and dark patches will appear in this sensitive area.

Take 1/3-cup cocoa, three teaspoons of heavy cream, 1/3-cup ripe papaya, 1/4-cup honey and three teaspoons of oatmeal powder. Mix it all together. Apply on your face. After 10 minutes, wash your face with warm water. This is best for oily skin.

Make a paste with 1/2 teaspoon of milk powder, 1/4 teaspoon of egg white and 1/2 teaspoon of lemon juice and apply on the face.

For a fair skin, try this natural bleach. Mix orange peels (sun dried and powdered) with milk. Apply this paste for 25 minutes and wash off.

Try drinking this- blend bananas with honey, yoghurt and low-fat milk. A drink rich in biotin can help keep your crowning glory firmly rooted.

Mix together equal quantities of tomato, lime juice and cucumber juice. Bottle and keep in the refrigerator. Apply it every night before going to bed. Half an hour before going to the bath rub on the face a teaspoon of milk mixed with a few drops of lime juice. If after you use these concoctions you feel any skin irritation of pulling the skin applies a few drops of olive or almond oil on the skin.

Protect your skin from the sun. It may seem like tan masks acne, but it's only temporary. A tan can cause the body to produce extra sebum, which may worsen your acne, not improve it. Tanning also causes damage to skin that will eventually lead to wrinkles and increase your risk of skin cancer.

If you can sleep during your journey, use a little eye cream under your eyes and a small amount of light night cream. This will ensure that your skin is refreshed and relaxed when you wake up.

Jet lag can result in dehydration, fatigue and hunger. Try to keep your meal timing constant and eat as little as possible after dark. While traveling, eat small portions and eat slowly.

Avoid drinking alcohol and aerated drinks, as they will make you feel thirstier. Do not eat food that is high in salt content, as they will result in swollen ankles and feet.

Skin Care Basics
To have healthy, beautiful skin and to slow down the skin aging process it is important to follow a regular skin-care routine as well as to reduce exposure to skin hazards (such as sun, free radicals etc.), have a balanced diet, and take rightly-timed preventative measures.

What are the basic steps to beautiful skin? Here is a short guide to the fundamentals.

Step 1: Identify your Skin Type

Do you have dry, normal or combination type of skin? Your selection of products and steps of your daily skin care routine will depend on the type of skin you have. If you don't know yet if it is normal, oily, dry or combination go to our skin type page.

Step 2: Follow a regular skin care routine.

It should include the following steps:

Twice daily:
Cleansing
Toning
Moisturizing
Protection (AM)/ Nutrition (AM/PM)

Once or 2 times a week:
Exfoliation
Additional skin treatments


Read more about the daily skin care steps in the article Daily Skin Care

Step 3: Avoid skin damage by reducing exposure to the skin hazards

An important part of keeping your skin beautiful and young for the longest time is to avoid or minimize damage to your skin.

Exclude (or at least minimize) damaging factors to your skin. For example wear sunscreen to protect your skin from UV damage. Also avoid direct and long sun exposure. Minimize the use of alcohol. Alcohol dilates small blood vessels in the skin and can result in their permanent damage and a "flushed" appearance. Quit smoking or if you are not a smoker avoid being in smoky environment. Tobacco smoke not only dries the skin surface, it restricts blood vessels and reduces the amount of blood flowing to the skin this way depriving the skin of essential oxygen and nutrients. Avoid skin irritants in cosmetics, skin care products, detergents. Read more about skin damaging factors here.

Step 4: Maintain a healthy diet and lifestyle

There is always an inside and outside story to keeping your skin young, healthy and beautiful. Whatever you apply topically to the skin will never work if your diet does not provide you skin with the necessary nutrients for it to be able to build collagen, maintain its elasticity, have a better ability to regenerate, retain moisture and protect itself against free radical damage etc. The perfect diet for the beautiful skin includes a selection of vegetables and fruits rich in: Vitamin C that helps collagen formation, omega-3 fatty acid that improves skin texture by “moisturizing” the skin from the inside, Vitamin E that provides the cells with protection from free radicals. Also include into your diet a source of protein and minimize oily, deep fried, artificial foods.