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Holistic Tips to Soothe Dry Winter Skin
The skin all over your face and body needs some tender loving care to survive Winter. Sensitivities, eczema, psoriasis and itchy skin are often made worse in the cold, dry weather. A holistic approach works best, that means thinking about what you put on your skin, what you put inside your body and factors in your environment.
Natural skin and mineral makeup excel because they don’t contain detergents or synthetic substances that dry and irritate skin. Plant oils closely resemble the oils in your skin and work to nourish the deep layers. Swapping from a chemical or petroleum-based skin or makeup product will make a difference and keep your natural beauty glowing.
1. Drink plenty of water: Hydrate your skin from the inside out and help carry nutrients to your skin cells. Eating lots of juicy fruit and vegetables helps too.
2. Pull on an extra jumper and turn down the heaters: A cooler environment helps reduce moisture loss from your skin. If you do put on the heater, place bowls of water around the room.
3. Keep showers short and warm: As glorious as a long hot shower can be in Winter, hot water will strip moisture from your skin. And, we all know that shorter showers save precious water.
4. Luscious lips: No-one’s lips are safe in Winter. When dry lips crack or become stressed, you increase the chance of a coldsore. Keep lips protected with a plant-oil lip balm. Petrochemical lip balms sit on the skin rather than soaking in and working to heal the skin as well.
5. Use gentle, creamy, plant cleansers: Ingredients such as sulphates, propylene glycol and alcohol can irritate and dry skin. Choose soaps hand made from 100 per cent olive oil. Shampoos that contain sulphates and chemicals can also cause itchy scalp and dry skin problems.
6. Use a natural moisturiser that nourishes your skin. Petrochemical or mineral oil moisturisers form a layer on top of your skin rather than being absorbed in to lubricate and support the skin. Apply the moisturiser while your skin is damp to lock in extra moisture. Intensive skin boosters like rose hip, sweet almond and jojoba oils do wonders for your natural beauty.
7. Exfoliate and hydrate. Gentle exfoliation removes the dead cell layer making it easier for your skin to absorb moisturisers. Hydrating flower mists or masks help refresh dry skin.
8. Use plant oil-based makeup or mineral makeup. Synthetic-free makeup and makeup without petrochemicals is gentler and less drying for your skin. However, not all mineral makeup is pure. Some mineral makeup contains irritating and drying ingredients, so avoid those that list Bismuth Oxychloride and Talc.
Another benefit is that mineral makeup containing the minerals Titanium Dioxide and Zinc Oxide are non-chemical sun blocks that also help to protect skin from damage in Winter.
Holistic skin tips provided by Biome Eco Stores. Check out the Biome range of mineral makeup and mineral makeup products today.
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Hard Water: The Ignored Acne Culprit
There is little end in sight on the long journey to find a cure for acne. Although more innovative approaches to combating the skin condition are constantly being introduced, millions upon millions of adults and teens continue to be plagued by this debilitating disease. Most skin care professionals will readily admit that thousands of factors can contribute to the development of acne. For instance, the particular shampoo you use to wash your hair, as well as the detergent you use to clean your clothes can have some bearing on your skin’s health. What few people fail to notice is that the most basic substance that comes into contact with our skin may be contributing to acne breakouts. This substance is none other than water. Like it or not, water is something that we constantly use to cleanse our skin. Could water be potentially responsible for cases of acne that have been non-response for treatment? Perhaps.
We can classify water into two very broad categories: soft and hart water. Hard water refers to water that is rich in mineral content. This is the type of water available in most homes. Those that receive hard water are faced with a number of nuisances, primarily hard water deposits and soap scum on bathroom fixtures. Hard water is favored over its softer counterpart for a number of reasons. For one, it is far less corrosive hard water. Further, it does not extensive treatment. Soft water is derived though a process known as distillation, which is oftentimes costly in large-scale applications. Hard water derives its high mineral content from the ground, where it comes into contact with Calcium and Magnesium ions, among number of other minerals.
Unlike hard water, soft water has a negligible mineral content. It is only available in a smaller number of regions with the United States. As mentioned before, it is corrosive and must be prepared through a process known as distillation. During the distillation process, mineral-rich water is boiled and the resulting vapor is collected. This vapor is pure, or soft water. Although distillation appears to be a simple process, it can be very costly when implemented on a larger scale.
Hard water can be extremely problematic when it comes to skin care. Water is meant to combine with soap and form a lather, as to provide a cleaning effect. This reaction is difficult to achieve with hard water unless harmful additives are included in the soap. Soap fails to properly lather under hard water, and instead forms what most us know as soap scum. This soap scum is not only present on our shower doors and tiling, but also our skin. Since hard water cannot effectively rinse soap, the soap scum creates a layer on our skin, leaving it irritated and acne prone.
The effects of hard water can be minimized if not eliminated through a number of ways. A more expensive solution is to install a water softener in your home. This softener replaces the minerals in water with Sodium ions. Those of you looking for a more affordable approach may opt to replace your regularly replace your shower heads and other bathroom fixtures, as to avoid further hardening from the accumulated deposits within these fixtures. Using bottled soft water (Distilled water) to cleanse your skin is yet another affordable option. You can use a spray bottle to help conserve the water. Taking cooler showers is also an effective approach to minimizing issues. Hot water enlarges your pores, allowing soap scum and minerals to penetrate, subsequently causing acne. If you apply one or two of these recommendations, you will surely see an improvement in the appearance and health of your skin.
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