Magazine and television advertising focuses almost entirely on beauty products that contain synthetic chemicals, some of which may cause health problems later in life, or even sooner if you are unfortunate. Some advertisements, of course, promote surgery as a means to “improve”, sometimes with disastrous results for the patient. Surely, there are some natural ways to maintain your already existent natural beauty; and maybe even provide some anti-aging protection at the same time?
Here are a few natural beauty tips that you may not have considered, or never taken seriously before, for which you do not need to visit a store and open your purse:
1. Water as Your Number One Beauty Ally
Even the least scientific amongst us probably know that the human body is made up of a large proportion of water; and that includes your skin. Common sense then tells us that we need to drink a large amount of water.
Did you also know that if the body has any sort of problem, internal or external, it requires extra free water in order to repair the damage? That is water, not juice or any water contaminated with caffeine, sugar or any other substance. Even a beautiful woman who is sick becomes less beautiful; if her skin starts to become damaged, she looks her beauty wanes. Water is an essential to the necessary repair and your overall health.
Very few people drink enough water, and one doctor at least argues that chronic dehydration is the root cause of many medical problems, including ulcers, cancers, and heart “disease”. Have a look at watercure.com to learn more.
2. Work on Your Inner Peace and Happiness
People who worry about their looks too much are often adding to the problem, if indeed there is a problem. Being discontent and worried itself can cause you to look strained and older. Millions automatically reach for one of the magic chemical potions they see advertised on television, or look to the Yellow Pages to book a facelift. Instead, the starting point could be to improve the way you feel about yourself from the inside. That will reflect on the outside over time. The eyes of an unhappy person lose their sparkle, and their beauty can be destroyed.
3. Sleep, the Natural Healer
The human body is in a constant state of renewal, both inside and outside. That renewal, and repair, goes on 24 hours a day, but while you are asleep there are no distractions of activity, and no exhausting demands. Your immune system is able to work unhindered while you are asleep, keeping you at the peak of health. If you are at the peak of health, your natural beauty lasts longer. You really do need your beauty sleep; that is one of the wisest and most accurate sayings of all time. People’s needs vary, but 7 or 8 hours uninterrupted sleep is probably what you need for peek health.
There are, of course, many more things you can do to preserve and prolong your natural beauty, but the above three should be at the core of your beauty care all the while.
By: Roy Thomsitt
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Natural Tips and Tricks for Maintaining Beauty
February 18th, 2010Natural Beauty Tips
February 6th, 2010
Natural beauty is easy when you give your body everything it needs to bring out your own unique style of beauty from the inside out. Success is available to everybody once you know the main areas to concentrate on.
Natural beauty comes from nourishing your skin from the inside out, not from the outside in.
You will never achieve true beauty by spending a small fortune on day creams, night creams, nourishing cream and anti wrinkle creams. These expensive creams may have fancy scientific sounding names but they will not properly nourish your skin.
Although some of the more expensive creams do provide a certain amount of the important substances needed for your skin, it is not enough in this form to provide complete skin care so that your own natural beauty can surface.
Rubbing cream all over your body will not deliver all the necessary nutrients required for your skin cells to regenerate. Most of it will just lay there until you wash it off. Just how much of the cream’s active ingredients penetrate your skin cells depends largely on your skin’s overall condition at the time.
You must also take into account the concentration of the ingredients and the manufacturing technology used in preparing the cream. Most vitamins have an extremely short live span and if you do not use them up quickly they will soon become useless.
The only way to ensure accurate delivery of the most important nutrients directly to your skin cells is to eat the necessary vitamins and minerals so they are absorbed straight into your bloodstream.
Each cell in your body needs dozens of nutrients to keep it healthy. Vitamins, minerals and amino acids come from food while the body itself produces others providing it is properly nourished and healthy.
The food you eat directly affects your appearance and the condition of your skin as well as every organ in your body and your skin is the biggest single organ.
However, it would be naive to think that changing your diet will smooth out all your wrinkles and completely reverse skin aging. It is equally naive to think you can eat whatever you like without causing any detrimental effects to your natural beauty.
Nourishing your skin with all the nutrients it needs will have an amazing impact on the mechanisms that control the aging of the body as a whole. With these mechanisms inhibited the aging process will slow down, especially the aging of the skin.
Natural beauty is not something that happens through external means, or even overnight for that matter. It can only happen when your body reaches optimum health with all your organs receiving all the nutrients they need to function properly.
By: Elaine Woosey
