Skin Care – the Right Way

Sustaining a healthy skin is tough. No matter how much care is taken, the skin is constantly exposed to the damaging external surroundings and is also appreciably affected by indoor factors like medication and lifestyle. Themedguru outlines these factors, plus the protective measures, for the sensitive lot.

Over a period, the damage to the skin becomes noticeable. The skin may become tight, lined, red or lose its glow. But like that old saying goes “every cloud has a silver lining”, there is still hope among all the despair.

Damaging Factors
The skin is at its best in the early twenties and this is also the best time to start caring for it. And to do that one needs to know the skin-damaging factors first. The maximum damage is caused by sunlight. It leads to pigmentation, texture changes and blemishes also in some cases.

Extreme temperatures, strong winds, and air pollution are some other external factors that can spoil healthy skin.

Then there are medications and skin treatment products meant for protecting the skin that, ironically, end up doing just the opposite. Skin treatments are not permanent no matter what the skin specialists say. Most skin care products are all blaze and advertising with very little substance.

Medical miracles happen but they are short lived. The dermatologists are all over the place offering you the skin you have long yearned for. Botox or collagen injections give gorgeous results but side effects are there too. You may take a chance with them but the long term damages of skin treatments may play havoc with your skin and it may never become healthy again.

Protecting Your Skin
The protection has to come from within first. Proper sleep, exercise, mental and physical health are all equally important for a healthy and glowing skin.

Dabbing powders and creams may make you look beautiful but their use leaves the skin feeling helpless. Make-up causes damage to the tissues of the skin. If apply make-up you must, then take care to clean your make-up tools. The make-up should be properly removed before sleep and avoid popping pills. They’re bad for your skin.

The damage caused by applying the pancakes and cosmetics can be repaired by incorporating a healthy diet. The diet you eat should consist of fruits and vegetables, mostly seasonal. The food should be properly cleaned and cooked to get its full nutritional value.

Our lifestyle also reflects on our skin. So, habitual cleansing of skin is very important. Smoking also harms the skin. Nicotine present in tobacco decreases the flow of oxygen which causes wrinkles, hampers skins’ recovery from wounds and stains the skin. It makes your skin flexible like leather and the skin itself may end up looking like leather.

Drinking may lead to redness of the skin and makes the person look pale and tired. It is also a cause of stress and stress shows on the skin. Think of stress busters. Do things you like.

A beautiful you can only result from a healthy skin and a healthy skin needs proper care; care from the thousands of cosmetics available to repair your skin or to make it healthy. Shun these unnatural treatments and strive, instead, for a healthy skin.

A good lifestyle and happiness is the key to a healthy skin and the sooner you realize this, the better. So go on and ‘save your skin’.