Skin Care

If you have the proper knowledge about your skin you can take its proper care and keep it free from problems. On the one hand, to keep the skin intact, healthy and glowing, we ought to take good diet to provide the vitamins required by our skin; on the other hand, to deal with the harmful effects of atmosphere we have to take the help of external applications known as cosmetics. Cosmetics claim to do everything from ensuring safe tanning to reversing the aging process.

Tips for Skin Care

• Avoid too much of sweets, fried foods, alcohols & cakes because they cause blemishes & blotchiness on the skin’s surface.

• Eat one seasonal fruit in the morning, preferably before eating anything else. Also eat vegetables, especially raw ones.

• Drink at 6 to 8 glasses of water every day.

• Avoid the sun. If you have to go out either cover your head with chunri / dupatta or take an umbrella. Also apply sunscreen lotion. (You can find type of homemade lotions to be used in next post.)

• Avoid smoking, especially passive smoking, that is, inhaling the air polluted by somebody’s smoking.

• Use bathing oil to soften your skin. For making your own bathing oil, take 1 cup each of palm, almond and olive oils and half cup of wheat germ oil. Mix them well and keep it in a bottle in the dark. Take a little of it and massage into the whole body before bathing or swimming.

• Try to keep your bathroom warm so that the increase in temperature will encourage the skin pores to open, Bathrooms can be kept warm by installing a heater at a place where it is out of the hazards of causing electric shocks.

• Use a body brush to break down the more fleshy skin tissues of the body.

• A bath brush and a pumice stone help to soften hard skin often found on the feet, knees and elbows. 

•  Cleanse your skin, once in the morning and again in the evening before going to sleep, with products suiting your skin type.

• Use face mask suiting your skin type atleast once a week.

• Massage your body atleast once a month.
  
  
  
   Pumice Stone.

                                                                                                 Take Care !!!