10 Natural Beauty and Skin Care Tips
Enhance the Way You Look and Feel Better With or Without Cosmetics
Jan 27, 2009
Ten ways to bring out your real inner beauty using skin-nourishing foods and natural skin care treatments that will leave you glowing and confident.
Everyone wants to look beautiful, and most people are willing to spend plenty of money achieving it – even though the truest beauty is natural. Forget hours under a dermatologist's care, expensive skin care treatments or painful cosmetic surgery: The following ten tips can help bring out your inner beauty easily and inexpensively.
- Drink More Water: It's easy to forget, especially in cooler weather, that the human body is roughly 90% water and plenty of water is needed to keep the skin and other tissues healthy. Two of the first signs of dehydration are headaches and dry skin. It's a good idea to keep a bottle or glass of water handy and sip from it throughout the day.
- Eat Foods High in Healthy Oils and Omega Fats: Foods rich in healthy oils feed your brain, nourish your cells, and heal your skin. Some of the best foods are high in omega fatty acids and include flax and hemp seeds, avocado, coconut oil, eggs, and oily fish such as salmon, herring, mackerel and sardines.
- Learn the Ingredients in Your Skin and Hair Care Products: Artificial chemicals in personal care products can cause skin reactions such as dandruff, dryness, rashes, eczema, and acne. Go all-natural if you can.
- Avoid Refined Sugar: White sugar speeds aging by stressing the pancreas, linked with the immune system, and may damage the way cell membranes communicate information. Many people find that eating sugar contributes to acne and a dull complexion.
- Cleanse Your Body on the Inside: Colon and liver cleansing is one of the most effortless ways to regain energy and improve the look of your skin. Cleansing with either supplements or healthy diet can clear the skin, healing blemishes and acne within days or weeks.
- Go for a Workout: Exercise fills the body with endorphins and yields a warm, natural glow. Sweating during a workout is good for your skin, driving out toxins and leaving clearer skin in its wake.
- Eat Your Antioxidants: Antioxidants are natural chemicals found in fruits and veggies that repair aging and cell damage. Good sources of antioxidants include berries, pomegranate, red wine, and most brightly-colored fruits and vegetables. Side effect: You may also feel more youthful and full of energy.
- Take Off the Makeup and Let Your Skin Breathe: The skin excretes more toxins than any other organ in the human body – by osmosis. Every cell of the skin virtually breathes. Complete women's makeup creates a layer against the skin that can trap dirt, sweat, and toxins coming out of the pores. Is it any wonder that women who wear the heaviest cosmetics often have the worst skin underneath? Do your skin a favor and try going makeup-free for a day or two.
- Nourish Your Skin from the Outside with Natural Oils: Giving your skin a moisturizing boost can help a lot in cold or dry climates. Almond, coconut, avocado or extra virgin olive oil work brilliantly as part of a facial oil cleanse or rubbed on after a shower to restore skin's moisture.
- Do Something You Love Every Day: Happy people glow with an inner radiance. Taking a moment (or several) to do something you love fulfills inner needs and brings out your joy, relaxation, and the beauty within – at least as important as anything else you might do to create smooth, radiant skin.
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