5 Natural Ways To Care For Your Skin

Girl, your skin care is very important and more so as Valentine’s day is just around the corner. *winks*

It’s time to stop complaining about acne, blackheads, scars, dry skin, and all those problems your skin gives you. We bring you five ways to get rid of those and keep your skin glowing and beautiful, just as it should be.

You know what’s good about this, they are all natural, all of them!

1. Beauty Sleep

Baby girl, the importance of your beauty sleep cannot be overemphasized. 7-9 hours sleep daily will heal, restore and eliminate toxins from the skin, make your skin look healthy and beautiful and generally improve your skin condition. Several studies have found that sleep deprivation can damage the immune system, increase fine lines on the face, decrease collagen, increase uneven pigmentation, cause dry skin, and with all that, the perception of attractiveness will be decreased. Lack of sleep also decreases the secretion of growth hormone and thus skin repair. For your face, deprivation of sleep makes your blood vessel dilate leading to dark circles and can result in poor water balance that creates dark circles and puffy eyes.

You don’t want that now, do you?

2. Water

Skin cells – which the skin is made up of, requires water to function properly like every other cell. Lake of adequate water or dehydration can make your skin dry, flaky and dry and dry skin is more prone to wrinkling.

It is also essential to maintain the optimum skin moisture and provide the skin cell with adequate nutrients. Drinking enough water enhances the complexion, combats skin disorders, prevents dryness, makes the skin softer and smoother, reduces blemishes, gets rid of skin toxins and generally make you healthier.

Not only is drinking plenty of water great for your skin, bathing regularly is too. It opens your pores, leaves skin refreshed and glowing, and gives you the opportunity to deeply moisturize.

3. Healthy Diet

You are what you eat, remember?

A beautiful skin starts from nourishment from within and what you take in goes a long way. Eat the correct balance of food, antioxidant-rich fruit and vegetables, varied and balanced diet, and healthy fat. It will not only feed your skin the vital nutrients it needs, it will help it stay soft, supple and blemish-free.

Some of the recommended food for a healthy skin are healthy fat, omega-3, fatty acids, carrot, pumpkins, papaya sweet potato, tomatoes, dark chocolate, oatmeal, walnuts, egg, sardine and mackerel, avocado, wall nut, sweet potato, cucumber, banana, olive oil etc. Fruits, vegetables and generally food rich in vitamin A, C and E are great for the skin too.

4. Exercise

The benefits of healthy exercise to your skin are so many. It makes your skin look and stay healthy and generally nourishes your skin. Exercise can improve your acne, wrinkles, dry skin, and more.

When you work out, there is increased blood circulation, production of sweat which helps unclog your pores and get rid of oil and dirt and makes your skin beam with that natural glow. It also causes the release of the ‘happy hormones’, and the rapid breathing helps oxygenate your skin making it healthier.It generally gives your skin a healthy glow and gets what, it causes acne relief.

What can be better?

5. Natural Concoction

There are some natural mixture that greatly improves the condition if your skin and gives it the glow. They include honey facial mask, lemon, and baking soda to lighten spots or lemon; honey, sugar and olive oil as face mask; turmeric and honey as face mask; shea butter and coconut oil for skin lotion; olive oil, coconut oil, and vitamin E oil as moisturizer; milk and honey as face wash for clear skin.

Some other natural things that aren’t particularly mixtures but are great for the skin are rose water, aloe vera, orange peel, and coconut oil.

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