No matter what type of skin you have, we all need to do the basics of taking care of our skin.
What are the Basics of skin care?
1. Cleansing
Make sure that you clean your skin before you sleep (even if you just stayed at home), and in the morning (even if you just stayed in bed) by washing with soap and water. It doesn't mean to say that our skin does not get dirty when we stay at home or just stayed in bed overnight. Our skin just gets more dirt when we are outside our house because we are more exposed to chemicals and pollution. So the more you stay outside your lovely and homey abode, the more likely your skin becomes dirty especially if you live in the urban area.
2. Moisturize
If you live in a hot, humid or tropical area, you may feel oily and thus, you may think you do not need to moisturize. However, you still do. If you feel like you don't or you think that all you need to do is just wash your face and use a toner or just do either of the two, think again. Use a moisturizer especially if your skin feels dry or tight. You can use a light moisturizer if you have oily or problem prone skin. Otherwise, an ordinary moisturizer will be sufficient.
We will discuss the different kinds of moisturizer and the best brand available for your skin in future blogs.
3. Eat Lots of Fruits and Veggies
What we eat affects our skin. I will talk more about what to eat and what to avoid when you have problematic skin in my future blogs, too. In the meantime, and as a general rule, we all need to eat more of the fiber and less red meat. If you eat meat, whether red or white, make sure that you wash it off by eating fiber after that. Thereby, lessening the effect of having too much oil and whatever kind of bad by-product that came in our digestive system.
4. Plenty of water
I think most people have been told to drink eight full glasses of water everyday. Not colas. Not tinted nor colored nor flavored water. Just plain water with one hydrogen and two oxygen. Lucky me, I could drink it plain 'cause I am used to it. But for those people who can't, you can probably start mixing your favorite beverage with more water. Pour your favorite drink in a glass almost halfway full. Then, mix it with water til it gets to almost the top. Stir and enjoy!
It might taste weird or unusual at first but you'll get used to it. Train your tongue (taste buds) and it will accept the taste eventually.
Drinking more water gets the toxins out of our system more easily and flushes it out of our body by urination. Imagine if you do not drink plenty of fluid a day, your urine gets darker and smelly. That's because it is so concentrated. That just means to say that you haven't been drinking lots of water. So drink, drink, drink water. Don't drown yourself though. Your body can tell when you need more and when you had enough.
5. Sleep
In this time and age, a person is lucky if s/he can have a full eight hour sleep. I think this is the amount of time that we can feel rested and rejuvenated. Although I have read sometime ago on the web. that people do not have to have a full eight hour sleep, but five to six is good enough. I do not know whether they did a research on it or not, but there are times, that my sleep is enough when I have six hours of sleep. That is without interruption in going to the bathroom, or my dog always moving on the bed, or turning whenever I do.
Those are the five simple things that we can do in taking care of our skin. In future blogs, I will be discussing more about taking care of our ageing and problematic skin ; branding and others.
