If you have the proper knowledge about your skin you can take its proper care
and keep it free from skin problems. On the one hand to keep the skin intact,
healthy and growing, we ought to take good diet to provide the vitamins required
by our skin; on the other hand to deal with the bad 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 ageing
process.
Tips For Skin Care:
Avoid too much of sweets, fried foods, alcohols and cakes. Because the cause
blemishes and 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 least 6 to 8 glasses of water everyday.
Avoid the sun . If you have to go out then either cover your head with
cloth or take
an umbrella . Also apply sunscreen lotion.
Avoid smoking, specially 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 I
cup each
of palm , almond and olive oils and half cup of wheatgerm 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.
Use face mask suiting to
your skin type at least once a week
.
Massage your body ( take someone's help )
at least once a month.
