Skin Care - Basic Regimen
It’s a pleasure to find natural products you love and create a routine of self-care that nourishes you inside and out. Face and hands have the greatest exposure. Give them equal attention.
Morning
- Cleanse thoroughly with cream cleanser, oil, or soap. Alkaline or neutral cleansing products remove acid wastes detoxified through the skin during sleep.
- Exfoliate once or twice a week or every second day if acne prone. Mature skin reflects less light. Removing dead skin cells restores a glow and encourages the production of collagen.
- Use a toner or vitamin C serum to restore the natural acid mantle of the skin and prepare it for proper absorption of moisturizing ingredients. Apply by gently patting into the skin.
- Use a cream around the eyes that is specifically formulated to prevent wrinkles and fine lines. Pat on gently working from the outside to the inside of the eye. Three Ships First Light Eye Cream is one option.
- Apply moisturizer or oil to nourish and protect the skin from environmental damage.
Evening:
- Cleanse your skin thoroughly.
- Apply a toner.
- Apply a serum, such as vitamin A, if you use one.
- Apply eye cream.
- Apply a night cream or oil to deeply nourish and moisturize while you sleep.
If natural skin care is new to you, and you have used preparations with artificial ingredients in the past, your skin may go through a detoxification process after several days or weeks of using more natural products. This signals the return of vital energy to the cells of your skin.
Natural, sustainable, beauty comes, first, from within. The most important nutrients are:
- Vitamin A – 10,000 IU if skin shows signs of premature aging.
- Vitamin B Complex – promotes circulation to the skin.
- Vitamin C – necessary for collagen production.
- Vitamin D – 4,000 IU – inflammation fighter.
- Essential Fatty Acids – Omega 3’s and GLA.
More Options to Maintain and Regain Healthy Skin
- Have an apple every day. The pectin and malic acid improve skin texture and tone.
- In a study on oral consumption of Aloe Vera juice, hyaluronic acid and collagen levels were nearly doubled in study participants after only 8 weeks. Great for digestion and skin!
- Expose your skin
without sunscreen to natural light and fresh air but protect it from sun damage. Fresh air and sunshine are skin food. Breathe deeply, exhale thoroughly.
- Astaxanthin is a powerful antioxidant that protects skin from sun damage.
- Get in the habit of smiling for strong facial muscles. It lifts years off the face in an instant.
- Add 2-3 drops of frankincense oil to your daily moisturizer to protect and regenerate.
- Do an annual liver cleanse and use liver loving herbs like milk thistle, dandelion, and turmeric on a regular basis. Skin health reflects liver and lymphatic health.
- Body care is simple. Keep skin clean and protected with your favourite cream or oil.
- Dry body brush 2-3 times a week to keep the lymphatic system moving and skin glowing. The lymph drains waste from every cell of your body and pounds of plaque from your brain each year. It’s one of the least talked about and most important body systems.
Taking exceptional care of your skin isn’t vain, it’s protecting the largest organ of your body that spends its days protecting you. Imagine if you could reach inside and apply instant nutrition to your liver or your heart. Because there is such synergy between all the organ systems, taking care of the one you can directly access, benefits them all.
*Revised January 2022
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