Healthy Skin Care Tips...

Seeing as how your skin is the body's LARGEST organ for absorption, here are a few tips to help keep it glowing and shining radiantly during the winter months:

1. Love the skin you're in (whatever size, complexion, or quote/unquote blemish you have -- love it, because it's yours baby!)

2. Wash makeup off thoroughly. If no makeup, cleanse the debris from your face/skin thoroughly and daily.

3. For oily skin types, use toners or cleansers that have less moisturizing ingredients. Dry skin types, may be able to skip this step (however, if your skin responds well to it, do it!).

4. Which leads to... know your skin type (dry, normal, oily or mixture). Buy products that best suite your skin. Test out products and see what works best for you, until you feel good in your own skin. If a product isn't working out for you, discontinue use immediately.

5. Exfoliate baby! Both face and body... This can be accomplished with a body scrub, facial mask or exfoliating gloves. A good scrub helps rid the skin of buildup and debris that may be deep rooted.

6. If a product has been chemically created in a lab, do not put it on your skin. Why? Although most companies will claim to use small amounts of laboratory created chemicals, these toxins, loaded with carcinogens, get filtered through the liver, kidney, lymphatic system which eventually appears on the skin as acne, dark spots, blotchy and scaly skin, etc. Long term use can serve as the breeding ground for autoimmune diseases like diabetes, anemia, lupus, arthritis, etc. Sounds extreme, I know but if it's not helping you (nutritionally) then its more than likely extracting from you (nutritionally); thus creating the appearance of unhealthy looking skin, and dependence upon chemically enhanced products.

7.  Drink plenty water

8. Dry brushing, yep this means brushing your skin while it's dry. Doing so helps to stimulate the lymphatic system, unclog pores, helping to rid the body of toxins and some people have said it's helped reduce the appearance of cellulite. (FYI: this also helps for those with circulation issues, dry also known as body brushing wakes up the lymphatic system and gets the blood moving more fluidly)

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