Got that tired dehydrated skin feeling?
Grab a glass of water and sit down for this juicy read. Ok, if it’s wine… get water anyway. Read on and find out why…
Have you got that tired dehydrated skin feeling? Dry, dehydrated skin can have a range of different causes. One particular word at this time of year that comes to mind is ‘winter’.
One of the biggest causes to our skin looking the way it does in terms of hydration, is of course water, yep your skin gets thirsty too. Our skin however is the last organ that will absorb hydration and water, and we all know in winter it’s increasingly harder to drink water. Suddenly you look at the clock and shit, its 2 o’clock and I’ve had one cup of water and that was in my tea! This can cause many internal problems like headaches, and external problems like pimples and dehydrated skin.
Yet winter, although a big cause for many this time of the year, isn’t the only cause of dehydrated or dry skin. Dry or flaky skin is actually slightly different to dehydrated skin. “Dry” skin, is actually related to the amount of sebum your body produces. Sebum or ‘Sebaceous’ glands act as a barrier preventing evaporation of moisture from the layers of your skin. If your skin has a tendency to be dry through most seasons, chances are your body doesn’t produce much sebum.
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So what now? Create a loving healthy relationship with your skin, get to know it, study it, take note on what you are eating, what time of the year it is, or time of the month ladies, and finally what you’re using on your skin, read the ingredients, I repeat, READ THE INGREDIENTS.
Harsh ingredients will strip the sebum from your skin, so yes, you may feel like you have fresh clean skin, for the moment. But in the long run it will make your skin dry. Just like the food you eat, what you put in you get out; the same rule applies for skin. Apply, vitamins, minerals, oils and antioxidant rich natural skincare and your skin will love you for it.
Here’s a few key points-
- So on top of drinking (or “forcing” in winter) water, what you put on your skin is what will be the most visibly noticeable. When I was working out (a long time ago; I now sit on the couch and watch Netflix) my trainer Vicki would say, “if you don’t always need to pee, you’re not drinking enough water”.
- Our top winter dry or dehydrated skin hacks, Number one; think moisture! Not the cake type of moisture, moisture inside and outside your body! I swear, and so do my girls, by celery juice every morning. It is 80% water and will flush toxins from your system plus is a known potent vegetable for clearing acne.
- Exfoliation is key! Get rid of those dead skin layers. Exfoliating regularly removes the dry flaky dead skin cells to reveal smooth healthy skin that can soak up all the moisture, it also stimulates blood circulation for healthier looking glowing skin and as we get older (more mature) we need all help we can get. My top products are either our new Super Acai Exfoliator or we do have a cult following of people that love (all hail) our Pink grapefruit/lemongrass scrub, the Pink Himalayan Salt Scrub. This is absolutely divine, the smell! Lemongrass, grapefruit it’s incredibly uplifting and leaves your skin deeply hydrated and silky smooth.
- GLORY OIL is a MUST HAVE. No joke. Day and Night. Non-greasy, hand, nails, beards, you will be blown away with the results. This clever blend of raw organic cold pressed superseed oils has 3 times more vitamin E than Rose Hip Oil! Phenomenal. It literally is the one product that I could not live without. Still trying to figure out a way to bath in it… Truly an elixir from God.
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