What comes to our minds when we first think of beauty? A beautiful face and thick shining hair, perhaps. Most of our time and money is spent on beautifying and caring for our face and hair. Women often tend to neglect another important aspect of our beauty as well as their health and that is their body skin.
Body skin is the largest organ of the human body and it protects our body from all kinds of wear and tear. Also, it maintains the body temperature and also cools our body. The harmful toxins of the body are thrown out in the form of sweat and this helps in keeping our body germ free as well.
If body skin plays such a vital role, doesn’t it deserve as much attention as our face and hair? Let us go through some simple ways by which we can keep our body skin healthy and beautiful.
Identify your Body Skin Type
Before chalking out a body skin care routine, it is necessary to identify what kind of body skin we have. Some people have oily skin while others may have dry skin. Certain health conditions like hypothyroid also can leave the skin dry. Some also have extremely sensitive skin. According to the body skin type, we have, we can choose the products accordingly.
Today, different body lotions and products designed especially for body skin and their different types are available in the market. You can choose wisely, which product suits your skin. Along with these products, you also can use some very simple, inexpensive, and home remedies about which we will discuss later in this article.
Protection of Body skin from Environmental Pollution
In today’s world when most of our time is spent outside our homes, our body skin is susceptible to environmental pollution out of which the harsh sun rays occupy the first seat. The most dangerous and harmful part is the skin being the body skin like hands and legs being unprotected and getting directly exposed to the sun rays.
Regular exposure to these harsh sun rays cause the skin to age rapidly and cause wrinkles. That is the reason sun-protection of the skin is considered the most important step to prevent skin aging. Some effective ways to prevent this from occurring is to cover the exposed parts of the body like hands with sun gloves available in the markets today. Also, apply a good quality sunscreen lotion on the exposed parts of the body.
Sunburn can be treated naturally by simple home remedies. Rose water and cucumber juice, when applied to the sunburn helps in soothing it. Aloe vera gel, which is found when you cut a juicy aloe vera leaf, can also be applied to areas affected by sunburns.
Sandalwood paste is also a well-known remedy for sunburn. Keeping yourself hydrated by drinking plenty of water and taking a bath with cold water can help in case of sunburn.
Keep Germs and Infections at Bay
Body skin, especially very sensitive skin is always prone to rashes, bacterial infections, and germs. Keeping your body clean by having a daily bath is the first step to prevent infections and germs. Use a gentle and mild soap for bathing. Bathing should include brushing the skin as well.
Because brushing not only cleans the body, but it also helps in removing the dead cell from the skin surface. However, it is advisable that the brush should be a soft one. Sometimes, people but harsh brushes thinking that they will clean the body better. Such brushes might hurt the skin.
So, choose your body brush carefully. Exfoliants, also, should not be used only on the face but also on body skin regularly. There are natural and ready made exfoliants available in the market for face as well as body. Also, you can prepare exfoliants made from natural products at home itself.
Some natural ingredients like oatmeal, sea salt, rice powder, coconut oil, yogurt, honey can be used in preparing natural or homemade body exfoliants. In case you find any infection, rashes, or an abscess on body skin, contact your doctor immediately. Korean Beauty
Massage Body Skin Regularly
Massage is a very important aspect of body skin care. It is therefore necessary that we squeeze in a little bit of time from our busy schedules and provide some soothing massage to our body skin. Massage soothes not only our body but also relaxes our mind.
Massage softens the skin, makes it flexible, and improves its elasticity. It also improves the blood circulation. A regular massage also helps in preserving the youth of the skin. Massage can be done at home or it can be done with the help of a professional for the same. Some of the oils used for body massage are coconut oil, olive oil, and almond oil.
Moisturization
Moisturization is the most important step in body skin care regime. Proper moisturization of the body skin helps it become soft, supple and this also is an important step to prevent aging of the skin. A large range of moisturizers is available in the market today out which you need to choose which suits you the best according to your skin type.
Moisturizer can be applied soon after a bath. It also advisable to apply some moisturizer on your hands before sleeping. Coconut oil and olive oil also can be used as moisturizers. These oils can be added in bath water and used by those who have extremely dry skin.
Waxing, Manicure and Pedicure
Waxing the skin regularly and also a weekly or a monthly manicure and pedicure can help keep skin looking smooth, healthy and beautiful always. Manicure and pedicure consists of cutting or shaping nails, cleansing and exfoliating the skin and using warm water to relax the limbs.
Pumice stone is also used to remove the dead skin from feet and hands. Use foot scraper regularly while bathing to get rid of the dirt and dust accumulated below the feet.
Exercise and Sound Sleep
Exercises and yoga, when performed regularly enhance not only the beauty of our face, but also gifts a natural glow to our body skin. Exercise improves blood circulation, leads to sweat which flushes out toxins and unwanted matter from the skin.
Exercise also helps us to get rid of excess fat from our bodies, which can cause the skin to look dull. Exercise also relaxes our mind and body and helps fight stress. These positive effects definitely show on our skin.
Just like exercise, we also need enough rest to rejuvenate ourselves and have good body skin. It relaxes the mind and body, the positive results of which, show on our skin.
Balanced Diet and Sufficient Water Intake
Along with exercise, balanced diet plays a vital role in our health and our looks. If a person is not health from within and does not have a balanced diet, no amount of cosmetics or make up will help.
A balanced diet should provide with all the nutrients, which are required to maintain a healthy body. Also, intake of sufficient quantity of water daily is mandatory to have good body skin. Water is the best drink one can have to cleanse the skin and make it beautiful and flawless.
Some of the nutrients for a beautiful skin are as follows:
Vitamin A: Found in carrot, milk, butter, mangoes and eggs
Vitamin B: Found in bananas, eggs, green vegetables and milk products
Vitamin C: Found in lemon, grapes, garlic, spinach, papaya and apple
Vitamin E: Found in soybean, mustard greens, sunflower oil and peanuts
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How To Get Perfect Body Skin
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