12 Ways to Look After Your Skin
Caring for skin, body and mind With ESPA experts / therapists
Why you should look after your skin
Your body surface is home to one of our largest organs Covering around 20 feet of our bodies and it is called the Skin. Your skin helps with a load of things, vital for our very survival it allows us sensation of touch, heat, cold and so on, not to mention keeping all our bits in tacked. So why is it important for us to give our skin a helping hand to keep working to its full potential.
Our skin breathes, removes impurities, helps regulate our body temperature and is good at helping us to look and feel great. Our skin defines us and really does make us all appear different. Men and women wanting to look their best, putting their skin through work or lifestyle challenges. We pluck, wax, tan, sun bathe, bake in the solarium, let it go dry and sometime scratch. We also colour, stain, tattoo, paint it and even shave, pierce, stretch it and take bits from here & stitch on there and the list could go on…whether it is meant or not, our skin goes through a lot.
There is so much more to looking after you body than what you put into it & cleaning it daily. Maintaining skin health should be part of your daily routine for long lasting natural beauty.
Here we share 12 ways to look after your skin:
- Naturally beautiful looking, healthy skin is a lifelong process. There’s no one size fits all quick fix. Although there are products that offer instant results, true skin health is created and sustained through a gentle and specific approach over weeks, months and years for great looking skin at all ages.
- All skin is different so choose skincare that’s right for your skin type. The needs of dry skin are completely different to that of oily and combination skin.
- The skin around our eyes is 7 times thinner than the rest of your face making it an extremely delicate area. Taking care of your eyes using only gentle natural products and applying them with the lightest, most delicate touches will help keep our eyes clear, bright, soothed and free from deep lines and dark circles.
- For clear skin it’s important to fully remove all traces of the makeup, and a great way of doing this is by double cleansing.
- As well as hydrating your body from the inside, hydrate on the outside by keeping skin well moisturised, choosing daily skin care products that balance the level of water within your skin. A moisturising mask and regularly spritzing with a toner with also help.
- Eating healthy fats and foods with antioxidants help fight disease as well as the ageing process. What you eat shows on your skin.
- Consuming too much refined sugar can damage collagen and elastin which cause wrinkles, so avoid sugar where possible or cut back. You’ll soon notice the difference in your face.
- Be wary of dairy. Studies have shown that milk contains hormones and other compounds that may contribute to inflammation and acne.
- Coffee dehydrates the skin, so you should try to limit your intake to no more than two cups a day. Also, try drinking an eight-ounce glass of lemon water beforehand to help neutralize the coffee’s acid.
- Try to introduce nuts into your diet – Brazil nuts are rich in Selenium, which increases skin elasticity, Walnuts are rich with omega-3 fatty acids which help to lower inflammation and Macadamias help give glowing skin.
- Get a good night’s sleep. It seems funny to say, but getting enough sleep really benefits your skin. This is because skin rejuvenates and repairs itself while we sleep, making good quality sleep for at least 8 hours a must.
- Regularly body brushing has some amazing benefits for your health and skin.
