Take Care Of your Skin: See How

 Hey guys, today we will be taking about how best to take care of your skin. The way your skin looks is very important to a large extent. Are aware that some people are attracted to you just because of how your skin looks? 

It is not everything that you do or apply on your skin that helps it to shine or radiate. Ignorantly, there are some of your daily routines that are adversely affecting your skin. But you don't have to worry any longer because we are here to show you how best to take of your skin with little or no cost.

Why Do I Need To Take Care Of My Skin?

Honestly, skin care is of vital importance to your wellbeing and longevity. Apart from beauty and elegance, your help is also dependent of what happens to your skin. Most of the diseases and infections we suffer today are contracted through the skin and other means. so don't play with your skin.

So you need to take good care of your skin for the following reasons:

1. To prevent your skin aging faster and easily.
2. Improve your skin beauty, radiance and glowing tendencies.
3. To look healthy, succulent and supple everyday.
4.   To prevent diseases and Infections. 
5. To look good and beautiful; very important.

You have now seen that it is very important that you take absolute care of your skin, just as it is important to eat or drink water at all times.

How To Take Care Of your Skin

These includes all you need to know or do in other to keep your skin in a perfect condition at every minutes of the day. It includes what to eat, drink or apply on your skin now and then.

In other to look good, do the following to your skin.

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See How To Take Care Of Your Skin Perfectly

Follow the steps and principle listed below in other to prevent some of the avoidable skin problems and improve your skin radiance.

Always Eat  A Healthy Diet

It is established that, eating a healthy diet helps to improve the way your skin looks or feel. Eating more of fruits, whole grain, lean proteins and vegetables does magic to your skin beauty and looks, so make it a habit today.

Research suggest that, diets that contains or rich in fish oil, fish oil supplements, low in processed, refined and unhealthy carbohydrates can promote a healthy and younger looking skin.

Protect Your Skin From The Sun

Limiting the exposure of your skin to sun will go a long way in protecting and preserving your skin color and texture. Prolonged exposure of the skin to the skin can cause varieties of skin problem ranging from increase in the risk of skin cancer, age spot, wrinkles, other skin problems.

it is estimated that 90 percent of skin ageing is caused by prolonged exposure to the sun especially those light skinned colored folks.

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To protect your skin from the sun, do the following:

1. Wear Protective clothing: wear long-sleeved tightly woven clothes to cover your skin whenever you are going out to avoid direct sun light on your skin.
2. Use Sunscreen: Apply sunscreen evenly on your body and reply every two hours especially when you are working under the sun. Broad-spectrum sunscreen with at least 15 SPF is preferable.
3. Seek Shade: Try as much as you can to avoid the sun between 10 am and 4 pm. This is the period within the sun's ray is strongest and can cause damage to the skin.

Wash your Skin Twice A Day and Whenever You Sweat

Washing your skin regularly helps you to get rid of dirt, bacteria, oils and other unwanted substances that might clog or build up on your skin. Endeavor to shower after a any stressful activity that got you sweating. 

And do ensure you remove and wash any sweaty clothing before wearing it again. Shower immediately after bein g in a swimming pool or in the ocean as these waters contains some chemicals which may unsafe for your skin. 

Treat Your Skin Very Gently

How you treat, clean or shave your skin can make or mar your skin in a very great way.

Do the following to ensure proper care of your skin and watch it glow radiantly;

• Avoid the use of strong soaps: Using detergents and strong soaps can remove oils from your skin thereby making it dry and scaly. Use soft and mild soaps especially on your face.
• Limit Bath Time: Long shower and hot water bath or shower removes oil from your skin. Use warm water instead of hot water for bath and reduce/limit your bath time.
• Clean or pad your body with clean dry towel: Gently pad your skin after bath with a soft clean towel. Ensure that small moisture remains on your skin after shower.
• Use moisturizer on your your skin if your skin is dry. The moisturizer to be used should contain SPF.

Exercise Regularly

When we exercise, we get rid of sweat from our body which not only helps the body but also the skin. During exercise, our blood circulation increases, this carries enough oxygen and nutrients to all the cells in the body including that of the skin. This helps our skin to glow and repair/replenish worn out tissues.

This helps also to reduce stress thereby reducing the level of  cortisol in our body.

Avoid Smoking

When you smoke, your skin gets older. Smoking contributes to wrinkles. Smoke narrowing the blood vessels that supplies the outermost part of the skin, hence decreasing blood flow to the skin which in-turn makings the skin pale.

Smoke also deprives your skin of the required amount of oxygen and nutrient require for proper functioning and health of the skin. It damages the elastin and collagen that gives skin strength and elasticity; and increases the risk of skin cancer.

Drink Enough Water

Though drinking water has no direct effect on the skin but it does a lot of good to other body system and functionality.

Drinking enough water helps the liver in the elimination of toxins from the body, helps the kidney to function very well, and helps the skin conditions like eczema and psoriasis.

Get Enough Sleep

Having a nice rest help the body generally. Getting enough sleep does wonder to the skin and the body. During sleep, our body regenerates, repairs and replenishes cells; and decreases stress hormone(cortisol) that is implicated in discoloration of the skin.

Sleep also helps to increase the production of the sleep hormone (melatonin), this acts as an antioxidants to fight wrinkles, fine lines and skin cancer.

The look of your skin is as important as your help. People judge your health conditions starting from the way your skin looks. So, it is very important to take care of your skin now. Prevent all those avoidable skin problems and glow naturally by ensuring proper care of your skin.

If you still have some questions concerning how to take care of your skin, write to us through the comment box. You can also share with your friends and loved ones using the social media handles available to you. Thanks.