6 Ways To Take Care Of Your Skin

Your skin is a pretty spectacular organ. It does an insane amount for the body; it protects you from your environment, helps regulate your temperature, uses sensation to communicate with you through nerve endings about your behaviors, and collects vitamin D from the sun. Your skin deserves some love for all this work! This being said, it is sometimes hard to applaud your skin if it’s giving you a hard time. The following will explore a few things you can do to help take better care of your skin so that it can do what it needs to do without interfering with your appearance or self-confidence. 

6 Ways To Take Care Of Your Skin
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Your skin is a pretty spectacular organ. It does an insane amount for the body; it protects you from your environment, helps regulate your temperature, uses sensation to communicate with you through nerve endings about your behaviors, and collects vitamin D from the sun. Your skin deserves some love for all this work! This being said, it is sometimes hard to applaud your skin if it’s giving you a hard time. The following will explore a few things you can do to help take better care of your skin so that it can do what it needs to do without interfering with your appearance or self-confidence. 

Understand Your Skin Is A Messenger

The first thing you need to understand about your skin is that it is a highly communicative organ. It is always letting you know exactly what’s going on within your body. This means that skin issues should never be simply covered up or forcibly removed; they need to be listened to first. If your skin is dry, moisturizer can help, but it’s telling you that you need water. If your skin is dull, it’s telling you that it needs nutrients. If your skin is breaking out, it’s communicating to you that your toxin-removal system is in overdrive, your hormonal system is out of balance, or you’re allergic to something you keep coming in contact with. When it comes to the skin, you should never treat only the symptom (for instance, the pimple); you need to be treating the root cause of the symptom, which is almost never on the surface level of your body.

Read Ingredient Lists

When you’re putting something on your skin, your body is absorbing that product. It’s vitally important that you read the ingredient lists of anything you put on your skin, and research any ingredients you aren’t familiar with. Most skin issues have ingredients they respond well to and ingredients they don’t respond to. Skin gurus at Ultherapysg.com, for instance, point out that retinoid and hyaluronic acid are excellent for tightening the skin. In contrast, dry or itchy skin can respond well to products containing aloe or cucumber.

Take Allergies Seriously

If your body struggles to deal with something, even on a minor scale, and you continue to interact with that thing, chances are your skin is going to reflect the inner struggle. It’s a good idea to have your allergies tested if you haven’t already. Sometimes a person has a mild allergy to something like fragrance, which goes mostly unnoticed apart from the skin’s reaction. Along this vein of thinking, stop using any skincare products that result in itchiness, swelling, or long-lasting redness.

Meditate Or Pray

It might seem funny to have meditation and prayer on a list of skin care tips, but both these practices have something in common. They alleviate stress. Stress is a hormone within your body, and it’s very difficult to keep your hormones balanced if you have too much of it. Your skin is often the first part of you to stand up and let you know that things are too stressful. Take steps to manage existing stress, but also seek to limit future stress by adding fewer things to your to-do list. Trying to do it all is a recipe for disaster as far as your skin’s concerned.

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Sleep

You’ve probably been told many times that you need more sleep, but you might not understand just how badly. Did you know that in 1910, the average American got 9 hours of sleep per night? Your body uses sleep time to balance your hormones and repair damages that have occurred throughout the day. This is also a period of healing, meaning skin problems like breakouts or dry, red patches can begin to recover. 

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Less Is More

When it comes to anything you put on your skin, less is always more. Your skin can get overwhelmed or tired out, just like you can. This is especially important when it comes to harsher processes like exfoliation. You don’t need to be doing every skin thing every day. It’s also vital that you’re gentle with your skin when using products. Don’t pull too hard or scrape too hard. Even if you can’t see the damage being done, on a cellular level, this is a serious thing that requires lots of energy to recover from.

The above tips should help you take better care of your skin. It’s important to remember that your skin is a reflection of your past habits more than your present habits. It takes about a month for your skin cells to turn over. This means that if you don’t like what your skin is doing, you will need to think about what went on a month ago and make a note to avoid that in the future.