You want your skin to remain youthful for as long as possible, right? Here are some tips to keeping your body's largest organ healthy, happy and beautiful too.
- Avoid mixing skin care products. Use a skin care system intended to work together to maintain your skins natural pH balance.
- Drink plenty of water. Get into the habit of drinking 8 glasses of water a day, it will definitely help to keep your skin (and other parts) hydrated.
- Avoid products containing drying alcohol. (rubbing/isopropyl, ethyl, ethanol = drying alcohols; cetyl and cetearyl = non drying)
- Avoid cleansers that suds. The suds are caused by detergents that will strip your skin of necessary protection.
- Avoid products containing artificial coloring agents, synthetic fragrances, parabens, propylene glycol, waxes, mineral oil, or sodium laurel sulfates. These ingredients can clog pores, cause allergic reactions, and result in an unhealthy complexion.
- Don't go to bed wearing make-up. Everyone has done this once or twice, but wearing make-up to bed just isn't good for healthy youthful skin.
- Increase fiber intake.
- Don't smoke. Smoking constricts blood vessels, causing premature wrinkling. (hard habit to break, believe me, I know)
- Use natural based products. Don't use soap as a skin cleanser. All skin types, by nature, are on the low pH side, or slightly acidic, measuring about 6 on the pH scale. One of the greatest enemies to your skins pH balance is soap because soap leaves the skin in an alkaline state that is receptive to bacteria.
- Get your beauty sleep. Eight hours is best. In this day and age this can be difficult, but it is possible. Eight hours sleep for healthy, youthful skin....ahhhhh sweet rest!
- Think positive, healing thoughts.
Your skin is a marvelous organ and responds quickly to kindness and care. When you care for your complexion it will do everything naturally possible to be soft, clear, healthy, and youthful in appearance.
Look great, and feel beautiful in your healthy, youthful skin!!
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