Top 10 Tips for Getting Great Skin

The skin is the largest organ in the body and covers it completely from head to toe. The skin protects us from diseases, lesions, and maintains our body temperature. It is also one of the five senses, touch. The skin is the most visible way to assess our health. It is one of the organs that people can see easily. Therefore, it’s part of our beauty, esthetic and vanity. It is not surprising that people spend large amounts of money on beauty products, surgeries and procedures, in order to achieve a great skin.

Having a great skin not only makes us feel better, but also improves our health through its functions. Having a healthy skin is not a difficult task and good habits can delay the aging process and prevent diseases from developing on the skin.

There are 10 easy things you can do to achieve a great beautiful skin and are numbered below.

Tip #10: Exercise

Exercise helps your cardiovascular system perform better and deliver important nutrients to the skin in order to keep it healthy.

Tip #9: Wash your face at night

Before going to sleep and adding moisturizer, make sure you wash your face to get rid of impurities that build up during the day.

Tip #8: Use make-up that doesn’t clog pores

Nowadays there a million brands of make-up for you to use. Some foundations that come as creams have moisturizer, sunscreen and retinols in them. Look for make-up that provides not just coverage, but other benefits for your skin and make sure the label says “it won’t clog pores”. If pores are clogged dirt and oils produced by the skin build up causing pimples, noticeable black pores and bumps. Having clean pores makes you look great.

Tip #7: Get your beauty rest

While sleeping the body regenerates, rests and produces specific hormones only at night. Being tired and not sleeping well causes eye bags. An extra tip to cure eye bags is using creams specifically for that purpose or applying a cold mask to your eyes to reduce inflammation. Another tip is using chamomile tea bags over your eyes for 10 minutes at a lukewarm temperature.

Tip #6: Hydrate

Drinking water keeps the skin’s moisturized and firm. Hydration is part of any great skin beauty regime.

Tip #5: Exfoliate

The skin consists of thick lines of cells, and it’s in constant regeneration. Millions of dead skin cell are shed in a day. Exfoliating helps remove these dead cells and makes the skin smoother, much more responsive to moisturizers and keeps it looking great.

Tip #4: Moisturize

Moisturizing the skin everyday prevents damage to the cells. It keeps the skin hydrated and smooth. It is even better if the moisturizing cream you use comes with sunscreen. There are different available moisturizers on the market for different types of skin. Look for moisturizers with vitamins, lipids and retinol, which protect the skin from aging. Apply moisturizer right after taking a shower because the skin pores are open and will absorb the cream better; and at night before going to sleep.

Tip #3: Use sunscreen and avoid exposure to sunlight for prolonged times

Sunlight has UV rays that can damage the skin. However, sunlight also aids in the production of vitamin D. It is recommended not to expose your skin to the sun between the hours of 10:00 am. to 1:00 pm. Sunlight causes skin cancer, which is a very problematic and difficult to treat. Even though, people like to tan to look better, you have to consider the long term effects of the damage the sun can do to the skin.

UV rays, besides causing skin cancer, also cause wrinkles and accelerate the aging process. They prevent the regeneration of the skin cells.

Tip #2: Vitamin E

Used in conjunction with vitamin C, all the functions of skin protection and collagen production are increased. These two vitamins have similar functions. Vitamin E can be found in green vegetables and in topical creams.

Tip #1: Vitamin C

Vitamin C or ascorbic acid is essential in our diets. It has 3 main roles in our body. First, it’s a major antioxidant. Antioxidants are molecules that protect our skin from the damaging effects of oxygen free radicals, also known as reactive oxygen species (ROS). We breathe oxygen every day and the body needs it to survive, but because of metabolic processes performed oxygen changes and can damage cell membranes. This damage can be seen in many ways in the skin.

Our skin is in constant renewal, but once a threshold is reached, wrinkles, depigmentation, and loss of elasticity happens. In order to prevent the three consequences mentioned previously, consuming vitamin C prevents the damage to our skin and slows down the aging process.

The second function is photo protection. As you may have heard before UV rays damage the skin and vitamin C protects the skin from those damages.

The third and most vital function of vitamin C is its role in the production of collagen. Collagen is a protein that maintains great skin elasticity and prevents wrinkles.

There are two ways you include vitamin C in your beauty regime: ingesting vitamin C (citrus fruits) and using a topical cream with this vitamin.

Those are 10 tips you can apply to your life every day and if you follow them you will have a radiant great skin in no time.