Natural Ways To Maintain Beautiful and Younger Skin

Good natural skin care and healthy lifestyle can help delay the ageing process and prevent skin problems. The body needs the right nutrients to fight diseases and makes your skin glow.

Protect yourself from harmful chemicals, get enough sleep, relaxation, exercise, drink plenty of water, stop smoking, protect yourself from the sun, eat fruits and veggies, use natural products and physical activities are some of the ways to maintain a healthy and radiant skin as beauty comes from inside, radiate outside.

Here are some of the ways to keep your skin young, radiant and Beautiful

Drink plenty of water: The body needs water, small amount of dehydration reduce the body functions. Boosting your intake of water ensures skin cell formation leading to radiant skin. Dehydration leads to dull, flaky and loose skin.

Give up smoking: Smoking destroys the body internal and external organs, it makes your skin older causing lines and wrinkles.  It damages collagen and elastin, which give the skin strength. By giving up smoking, you are not only rejuvenating the skin but also helping your internal organs to be healthy.

Keep away from too much sun: Small amounts of daily sun produce vitamin D, which is good for the skin, but too much sun will damage the skin as it breaks down the structure of collage, which leads to ageing and wrinkles.

Eat plenty of Fruits and Veggies: Fruits and veggies are packed with Vitamins and other antioxidants nutrients good to fight diseases and repair the body, fruits such as Lemons, Limes, Carrot, Tomatoes, Nuts, Avocado, Strawberries, Spinach, Pomegranates are all packed with vitamin C and other nutrients good for the skin. A diet rich in vitamin C reduce wrinkles. Researchers have proven that skin exposed to vitamin C can produce more collagen.

Manage stress: To encourage healthy skin and a healthy state of mind, endeavour to take control of your stress level, by making some adjustments to the way you organise your time could help you feel more in control. 

Engage in physical activities:  Exercise helps rejuvenate the skin; it helps blood circulation and nutrients to the skin's surface releasing toxins through perspiration, which helps to create a fresher, younger, firmer appearance.

Avoid too much alcohol: Drinking alcohol can make your body and skin dehydrated, leaving the skin looking saggy and tired. Endeavour to drink plenty of water or watery fruit juice when you drink alcohol to help your body rehydrate.

Get enough sleep:  Sleep is good for healthy and radiant skin; your skin refreshes while you are asleep.  Not having enough sleep can make the skin tired especially with bags under your eyes, Poor sleep can result to headache and other conditions leaving you depressed and irritable, which can even makes it harder to get good quality sleep.

Apply natural skin cleanser and moisturiser: Cleansing is important because it removes dirt and bacteria.  Leaving make up on your face while going to bed can affect sleeping condition. Applying Moisturiser protects the skin from the weather; from drying up and looking dull. It helps your skin maintain its natural moisture levels, say the Mayo Clinic experts.

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