Simple Skincare & Beauty Tips ~ Just for You!
Everybody wants to have healthy, glowing skin, and there are a variety of ways to achieve that look naturally. In addition to your cosmetic product regime, there are other things you can do to achieve that healthy, glowing look. The process starts at home with you and your habits. You can drastically increase the way you skin looks by simply changing a few of your eating habits, or rather, simply implementing a few additional eating habits into your daily routine.
Vegetables
Everybody knows that vegetables are good for you, but not everybody knows how good vegetables are for your skin. Vegetables like spinach and romaine lettuce give you vitamin E, which is very good for you skin. Red, yellow and orange vegetables give you vitamin A, which is also great for your skin. Vegetables also have antioxidants which is good for you skin as well. The key to eating your vegetables it to try to eat them raw as much as you possibly can. You get more nutrition from your vegetables when you eat them raw.
Seaweed
Many people turn their noses up at seaweed, but the simple fact of the matter is that seaweed is extremely good for your skin. Seaweed helps your skin’s elasticity, stimulates your skin cells and has anti-aging properties. There are numerous types of seaweed so try several different types until you find one that you can tolerate.
Fruit
Fruit is great for your skin, and while the saying “an apple a day keeps the doctor away” is quite popular, it is also true that an apple a day helps the skin fight acne and keeps it clear. Pineapples and papayas are two fruits that exfoliate the skin. You can eat them or you can simply apply them to your face as a mask for 10 minutes to get the benefits from their properties. Basically, all fruit is good for you skin in one way or another, so find fruits that you like and try to eat them every day.
Smoothies
Smoothies are known to be healthy, especially when they are made from vegetables and fruit. For people who are picky eaters when it comes to vegetables, smoothies might be the answer for you. With smoothies you blend all the vegetables together and it might be easier for you to get the vegetable nutrition you need that way. Fruit smoothies are also a great way to get the nutrients that your skin needs. Simply choose a few of your favorite fruits and blend them together to create a powerful potion for your skin. You can also try mixing fruits and vegetables together into one smoothie that is a fruit-vegetable smoothie. When done correctly, these can be quite tasty, and the healthful benefits are astounding.
Water
Drinking water is perhaps one of the best ways to promote healthy, glowing skin. Water cleanses harmful toxins from your body, and toxins are what harm your skin and give you acne. Water cleanses your body from the inside out and helps prevent wrinkles. If you don’t like the taste of water, try adding lemon to it. Lemon is also good for your skin, so you’ll win either way.
Cindi Lewis writes for Glossy, a hair care products and beauty products online retailer.
Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper
~ Adelle Davis
Ageless Beauty! Jojoba acts as a moisturizer and a tonic, its naturally hypoallergenic and it is PH balanced, making it sustainable for all skin types – especially African-American women’s skin.
2 Aging Secrets beat with Jojoba Oil
• As we grow older, personally I like the phrase “As we Mature”, our skin starts to dry up due to a decrease in sebum production in the body. Jojoba Oil acts as a supplement of the sebum. It is actually chemically similar to sebum, so your body recognizes it as sebum and readily absorbs it into your system. Because it is absorbed, jojoba oil works to effectively restore the normal oil balance of your skin, helping to prevent dryness.
• The different antioxidant properties of Jojoba Oil help prevent any Further damage to your skin due to the aging process.
Although the term Jojoba oil includes the word oil, it really isn’t oil at all! Jojoba oil is actually a liquid wax – meaning it won’t clog your pores. Jojoba Oil is great for African-American women with skin problems such as eczema, acne scars, and psoriasis, since Jojoba Oil has anti-inflammatory ingredients.
Jojoba Oil is ideal for African-American women with oily skin because it does not block your pores and does not irritate acne.
Jojoba Oil Benefits:
-Helps soften skin and reduce wrinkles and crows feet
-Helps heal skin from bruises, cuts and scrapes, while reducing scarring
-Great to use for acne, psoriasis, and other minor skin disorders
-Helps reducing irritation and soothes skin after shaving
-Great moisturizer for dry skin, cuticles, lips, and hands
Using Jojoba Oil to assist you in nullifying the appearance of wrinkles is sustainable for all skin types, especially African-American women. Jojoba Oil is actually more preferable over any other anti-wrinkle creams due to the fact that it does not contain any toxic contents. It is hypoallergenic and also very rarely causes any type of skin irritations.
*Be careful though! When purchasing Jojoba Oil make sure to read the label carefully while making sure to select the one that has the most pure and natural form of Jojoba Oil.
One of the most common side effects of aging or maturing African American skin has to do with loss of hydration. Basically, your skin gets more dry as you get older.
Jojoba Oil helps to keep your skin hydrated. It works to protect African American skin from toxins. It is also great for smoothing wrinkles over. It does this by forming a lipid (oil) layer over your skin while easily being absorbed.
When shopping for moisturizers, cleansers, soaps and sunscreens, take note of the ingredients. For your African American skin care regimen, buy products that have jojoba oil as one of the top 3 ingredients to insure the protection of your skin.
Jojoba oil can be used to help nourish and moisturize all types of face and body skin. As an example, applying some jojoba oil to your African American skin can give it a glowing essence not to mention make it look gorgeous.
Or, if you’re in need to remove your makeup, you can use jojoba oil to cleanse your face without any worries for possible allergies or irritations.
Last but certainly not least, Jojoba oil can also be applied to African-American women’s skin in order to fight such conditions as athlete’s foot, warts, cold sores and others. So don’t be afraid to rub the jojoba oil all over your body.
Are you an Ageless Beauty? You bet your beautiful skin you are!
Authors Bio
Juliette Samuel is a person who definitely knows beautiful when she sees it. Juliette has had a very eclectic career working in and around the beauty industry. She has worked as an instructor at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. She has also been a Professional Image Consultant.
Currently Juliette works as a Skin Care Therapist, acting President and Chief Nose for NYRAJU Skin Care. As such she is in charge of product formulation, development of all scents produced for the line and understands a thing or two about maturing skin.
Juliette is also a member of NAHA-The National Association of Holistic Aromatherapy, The Society of Cosmetic Chemist and is the Fragrance Editor for BellaOnline.
What does that do for you? It keeps Juliette on her toes when it comes to the type of information that she’ll be able to share with you as readers of her blog or articles that she publishes on and off the web.
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