Essential Skin Care Tips to Follow This Summer
Summer is a trying time for your skin. The blazing sun and the scorching heat can be unforgiving, especially your skin. Pollution and other environmental contaminants remove your skin's natural radiance, leaving it oily, dull, and blemished. Read on to understand how Summer changes the quality of your skin and what you can do to hold on to that radiant and healthy skin.
How Does Summer Affect Your Skin?
An increase in temperatures during the summer months, combined with humidity and heat, can increase the activity of the sebaceous glands. Which makes oily skin appear oilier and dry skin appear rough and patchy. The intensity of the sun's rays also causes tanning by producing more melanin pigments. While everyone is aware that more melanin means darker skin, few relate sunburned skin with ageing and cancer.
How to Take Care of Your Skin in the Summer Season?
Easy steps that you can do to take care of your skin this Summer:
Include Antioxidants in Your Facial Skin Care Routine
Invest in a good antioxidant serum during the Summer. Not only does an antioxidant serum hydrate your skin, but it can also protect your skin from environmental damage. It helps boost collagen production and scavenge harmful free radicals to prevent skin damage. Include antioxidants in your skincare regimen by adding them to your diet as well. Stock up on citrus fruits, green and leafy vegetables, green tea, nuts, and whole grains to have younger-looking skin.
Keep Your Skin Hydrated
Remember that Summer is the time when your skin requires moisture as well as hydration. Invest in a good hydrating toner which you can use more often jurying the day, carry the toner mist with you. Please keep it in the fridge for a cooling, refreshing, and hydrating relief. Spray it on every few hours.
Exfoliate Regularly for Smoother Skin
Exfoliation is the key to brighter and smoother skin, and it removes dulling skin debris and piled-up dead cells. This debris prevents the skin from breathing and can congest the skin.
Wear Sunscreen
Sunscreen should be your best friend during the summers. Choose one with a broad ultraviolet spectrum minimum of 30 SPF and covers UVA and UVB rays. Reapply every two hours if you are spending all day in the sun. Make sure to protect your hands, feet, shoulders, ears, and neck as well.
Change Your Moisturizer
Come, Summer, choose a lighter moisturizer. Skincare in summer calls for a more lightweight and non-greasy product that suits the weather.
Drink Plenty of Water
Water is an essential ingredient in healthy skin tissue, and it keeps your skin supple, soft, and radiant; it is also crucial to flush the toxins out from the skin through sweat and urine.
Remember to Take Care of Your Feet
Do not forget that your feet carry you around all day, and they need care too. Use a moisturizer on your feet. if you
Take Special Care of the Eye Region
While you choose moisturizers and toners for your face, remember that the skin around your eyes is much thinner and more delicate than the rest of your face.
Be safe...and enjoy your Summer!
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