Your Guide to Clear, Confident Skin
Rescue For Winter Dry Skin
Rescue for Winter dry skin and more!
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The cold winter weather can leave your complexion feeling dry, dull and uncomfortable. Incorporating the right skin care routine and making sure you’re providing your body with the proper nutrients can help nourish your skin from the inside out.
Here’s a list of 10 suggested foods to eat that studies have shown they play a role in preventing dry
1. Sweet potatoes 🍠
Contain vitamin A and beta carotene, which aid in skin repair, strengthen the skins protection barrier and help in moisturizing and pumping up the skin.
2. Kale 🥬
Kale contains vitamin A for-skin renewal, and vitamin C for boosting collagen and firmness
3. Eggs 🥚
Eggs contain skin boosting vitamin A and D, as well as vitamin B5 which helps in the production of keratinocytes cells that support healthy skin function, and the protective barrier.
4. Citrus 🍊
Loaded with vitamin C, a powerful packed antioxidant that can give your skin a fountain of youth glow, vitamin C is known to pump up collagen, and fade brown spots.
5. Walnuts
Walnuts are loaded, alpha Lalic acid, plant-based omega-3 fatty acids known to strengthen skin membranes by locking in moisture and protecting skin cells.
6. Sunflower seeds
A super source of vitamin E, sunflower seeds keep skin supple and strengthen the skin membranes to promote optimal hydration, plus protection against free radicals and UV damage.
7. Salmon
Salmon contains omega-3 fatty acids which can help on a cellular level balancing the lipid membrane to help skin hold more moisture. It contains vitamin D and its anti-inflammatory properties can help with dryness.
8. Lean proteins
A critical nutrient for healthy skin for protecting our skins constitution as we age and helps repair its tissue. It provides amino acids that contribute to production of the three types of protein in skin, collagen, elastin, and keratin.
9. Spinach
Spinach is packed with vitamin C and K, as well as potassium. Vitamin C will help with collagen production, potassium is a great nutrient, helping to keep your whole body hydrated, including your skin.
10. Red pepper
Good source of vitamin A, and C both which help with collagen production, skin hydration, and overall skin health. Red pepper also contains vitamin K which also boost collagen and vitamin E which can help reduce any inflammation caused by dryness.
Tips for surviving the winter season with dry skin doesn’t stop here. Not only do you have to feed skin from the inside out you have to make sure to use a hydrating skin regiment.
I have four products that are great for helping to combat winter dry skin. 🌵
It’s Possible cream cleanser
This product helps you maintain a healthy skin barrier. This high-quality facial cleanser is essential for maintaining healthy, radiant skin. Its active ingredients are effective at removing impurities while nourishing your complexion.
It’s Possible hydrating serum
This serum is a one of a kind. Unlike many others on the market, this product contains a symphony of ingredients that do not simply mask dryness by coating the skin with a layer of hyaluronic acid, but instead actually helps remind the skin how to work better for itself while nourishing the layers below.
It’s Possible Rose Toner
🌹Rose Damascus is known for its hydrating properties. It’s an anti-inflammatory used to help soothe, irritated skin and reduce redness. It can help tighten pores, brighten the complexion, and give the skin a refreshing and revitalized appearance.
It’s Possible balance moisturizer
This product contains vital nutrients for hydrating the skin, including hyaluronic acid which works together to deliver long-lasting moisture without a heavy or greasy feel.
* This product has anti-microbial, antifungal properties proved to be beneficial for the skin.
* Its lightweight formula is designed to hydrate without clogging pores.
* It has humectant properties: the ability to draw in moisture from within the skin layers and from the air. It also helps the skin barrier keep moisture locked within.
Do We Really Need To Be Checking The PH Levels Of Our Skin Care?
Why you can’t ignore pH.
You’ve seen the term “pH balanced” on some skincare products. What does it really mean and why does it matter? Do we really need to check the pH levels of the products we put on our skin?
In short, the answer is YES. And here is why…
Lets start by reviewing what we learned about pH in grammer school.
You may remember from science class that pH shows the level of acidity of a substance. PH stands for potential Hydrogen and is measured on a scale from 0-14, with 0 being the most acidic, 14 being the most alkaline, and 7 being neutral.
What is the Acid Mantle?
Our skin is covered by a thin shield called the acid mantle. This acid mantle acts as our first defense to protect us from environmental toxins and invading bacteria, including the bacteria that cause acne. The ideal pH for this protective layer is 5.5. When our skin’s pH level drops below 4.5 or above 6.5, it inhibits our skin’s ability to handle environmental stress and fight infections.
How do I know if the pH level of my skin is off balance?
Our skin gives us clues as to whether our pH is in balance or not. Signs that your pH can be too high or low in pH include being acne-prone, oily, red, inflamed, dry, sensitive or wrinkled.
What factors affect the pH of our skin?
There are a number of factors that influence the pH level of our skin including diet, age, and the products we use.
Diet
Our diets strongly impact our gut health which plays a central role in skin pH and the growth of bacteria on the skin surface. As you likely have heard, the typical American diet, high in sugars and processed foods, does not contribute to good gut health. We can have a positive impact on our gut health and pH, both internal and external, by avoiding sugar, processed and yeasty foods and by increasing greens, fermented foods, and water.
Soaps and skincare products
Most soaps are too alkaline and strip the skin of natural oils and thus cause dryness. Using products with the correct pH is critical to the health and proper pH of our skin. A word of caution about homemade/DIY skincare products. Often the household items included in these are either too acidic or alkaline for our skin and can cause damage to our acid mantle.
Age
As children our skin pH hovers around 7 and then as we move into adolescence, it lowers to around 5.5. Our skin then tends to become more acidic as we age due to the environment and lifestyle.
What can I do to balance my skin’s pH?
If our skin is too acidic or alkaline, we may be tempted to use a product on the other side of the scale in hopes of balancing our pH. This is not a good approach. Instead, it is best to use high-quality products with a pH near 5.5. Additionally, use probiotics to improve gut health, maintain a quality diet, and treat your skin gently so as not to damage the acid mantle.
Contact me today to discuss setting up a skin-care system that will help balance your skin’s pH and make it look it’s best!
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Daily Skin Care Made Easy
A daily skin routine makes all the difference for healthy skin, but most people skip this important part of their routine, because they think it has to take a gazillion hours – and no one has time for that. This is my simple routine for glowing, healthy skin.
Morning:
– Cleanse
– Apply a highly concentrated Vitamin C Serum in the morning. This protects the skin from UV damage, and has proven antioxidant and regenerative properties to help fight and repair signs of aging and stimulate collagen and elastin.
– Apply sunscreen for all day protection from harmful UV rays.
Evening:
– Cleanse to remove make-up and the day’s effects.
– Moisturize while skin is still damp for extra hydration.
– Twice a week I exfoliate, sometimes with an AHA, sometimes with a product that has granules in it. For added benefit, I recommend a monthly peel or microdermabrasion treatment.
– Apply toner after cleansing to remove left-over residue and balance skin pH. Toner also adds antioxidants while rejuvenating, soothing, and hydrating skin.
– Use a Vitamin A corrective serum to encourage skin cell reproduction, circulation and produce cumulative benefits long term.
– Apply a rejuvenating eye cream.
Once or twice a week:
– Add a peptide, which helps the skin heal itself.
– Add a growth factor of Glutathione, an antioxidant that helps to neutralize free radicals in the skin.
Taking care of your skin doesn’t have to be confusing. I can help you create a routine specifically for your skin’s needs and take the guesswork out of which products are right for you.