Daily Skin Care Regime - Why is a Daily Skin Care Regime
Important?
A professional skin care regime is one of the most important
parts of maintaining your skin's health. Your skin is not a
smooth surface like a sheet of glass. On the contrary, your skin
is more like a riverbed, full of little lumps, bumps, crevasses
and holes. You can give these dermatological names such as fine
lines, pores, sebaceous glands, etc., but at the end of the day
the fact remains your skin is far from a flat, smooth surface.
Because of this and because your skin is a living, breathing
part of your body and fulfils several major functions including
temperature regulation, immune defence, protection from the
external environment, etc., you will need to look after it if
you wish to have it work at its optimal level and hope to have
good, healthy skin into your late 70's and beyond.
What about the type of products I should use for my skin care
regime?
You should always choose natural skin care products as
many commercially mass-produced skin care products utilise
potentially toxic chemicals and highly modified 'natural'
ingredients.
Wildcrafted Herbal Products hand makes a range of holistically-natural skin
care products suitable for your particular skin type. These
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utilize herbal extracts and essential oils to produce lasting
effects.
Their products are designed to benefit your skin's health for
the long term and include only the best ingredients suitable for
your specific skin type.
Daily Skin Care Regime
Cleansing your skin
Cleansing your skin is one of the most important steps if you
want to maintain a healthy, vibrant and youthful looking skin.
As well as providing the basis for an advanced skin care
regime, effective cleansing can actually improve the quality of
our skin, enhancing its radiance and keeping it looking younger
for longer.
Thorough cleansing is one of the most important steps of a
complete skin care regime. Cleansing of your skin should be done
morning and night to ensure the removal of surface impurities,
make-up, and stale skin oils. When regularly performed cleansing
will enhance the skin's ability to breathe and maintain its
other important functions.
One of the best ways to do this is to make cleansing your skin
part of your daily skin care regime.
This is how you do it:
First, moisten your face with lukewarm water. Then apply a small
amount of facial cleanser. Gently spread the product over your
skin, using light, circular movements. At this stage, spend an
extra minute massaging the product into your face to boost your
skin's circulation and help decongestion.
Secondly, be sure to be gentle, your skin is a delicate organ
and needs to be treated with care and respect.
Lastly, rinse off the cleanser, using lukewarm water and pat
your face dry.
If you are still using ordinary soap, STOP. You are seriously
compromising the health of your skin. Throw it away and start
using a quality cleanser.
Toning your skin
Toning is the second step in your daily skin care regime. These
days, women often leave this step out and yet it is just as
important as the cleansing of your skin or the moisturizing. It
is a must include step. The one or two minutes it takes are
worth every second if you desire to have healthy, vibrant skin
with a minimum of lines and wrinkles. Don't leave this step out.
You have just spent time cleaning your skin, ridding it of
stale oils, makeup, dead skin cells and other impurities, now
you have to tone your skin.
A quality cleanser may contain such ingredients as clay. This
helps to remove dead skin cells and other impurities, but may
not rinse off totally. This is why you need to use a quality
toner.
Firstly, it removes every last bit of the cleanser such as the
fine clay particles and other residues from the cleansing
process.
Secondly it will close the skin's pores to protect it from
further loss of moisture, which invariably happens when
cleansing your face.
Thirdly it provides nutrients and restores the pH balance of
your skin.
Now that is worth spending a minute or two, isn't it?
Moisturising your skin
This is the third part of your daily skin care regime and should
also be done morning and night using a day cr