Healthy Natural Skin

Wednesday December 07th
The Secrets Of A Successful Dry Skin Therapy Plan Which Actually Helps Your Skin To Bloom.
What have Winston Churchill and the desert got in common? Well, the British PM and wartime leader was not at all happy with his dry skin therapy which consisted of ointments and creams. He suffered a lot from dry itchy skin. The desert is related to the fact that if you live in a very dry climate, you are liable to suffer more from this problem.

Let us have a look at the aging and environmental factors which can affect our skin :

* winter and cooler climes tend to dry out the skin as there is less moisture around

* similarly desert landscapes are liable to fall into that category

* if we live in overheated homes where there is no moisture, then this is going to aggravate the problem.

*summer is much more relaxed as there is more heat and therefore humidity around and this helps the problem.

*sweating helps too in that the outer layer of skin tends to be kept moist.

*every year our skin gets a little dryer and there is less sebum produced.
- The ideal level of humidity in your home or office environment should be around 40%.
As regards the best routines for adopting to help us with our dry skin therapy plan, here are some ideas. First we should not be too warm and this applies when we go to bed. A cooler bed can work wonders. If we have an electric blanket, that is tending to draw the moisture from the body. We might want to consider other sources of heat.

We should also try to include the following in our regime.
- reduce the number of hot showers
- opt for warm water in showers and when we wash our face and hands
- we should pat dry rather than dry vigorously after a shower or bath. It is better to apply a moisturizing cream then while the skin is a little damp to the touch.
- the combination of the oil and the water will help to entrap the moisture in our skin for longer and so we can gain greater benefit.
But how do we choose the right type of moisturizer when we have exhausted our list of dry skin remedies? We have to make sure that any moisturizing cream does NOT contain any of the following g ingredients such as toxic formaldehyde (also used for embalming!), ammonia which can actually corrode your skin and also BHA which actually increases skin sensitivity to the sun.

We can also exaggerate with moisturizers when we are concerned about dry skin therapy. One Danish study shows that the skin can become sore and irritated as all this moisturizing is upsetting the natural balance of our skin.

Why not try a range of skincare products which are now regarded as being in the vanguard of the best natural skin products on the market today? You could actually resolve all your dry skin therapy problems with one of these products.