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
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Natural Beauty Tips
February 6th, 2010Beauty And Make-Up Tips
January 26th, 2010
Most women are born with smooth and spotless skin. But years of neglect and bad habits could be the starting point to an aged appearance, blotches, wrinkles, uneven skin tone and a dull, drawn look. It is true then that good skincare is the basis for good looks. Well, before we come to the commandments, it may please you to know that good nutrition is the first bold step to a more beautiful you.
It is vital for a smooth, wrinkle-free skin. The reason is that giving your body the necessary vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates, proteins and fats, in a non-toxic diet will greatly reduce the chances of early wrinkles and help maintain the skin’s elasticity.
Back to tips you must take seriously if you want to really look good. Keep early wrinkles at bay:
Try to protect your skin from the sun. Ninety percent of problems associated with early wrinkles are as a result of exposure to the sun. When sunlight hits the skin, its rays trigger the production of free radicals (out of control molecules floating in the air, whose only mission is to destroy the healthy cells in our body by breaking down its collagen). Collagen gives its firmness and tone. It also changes the production of skin pigment, known as melanin, which results in the appearance of sun spots and age spots.
(a) If you must come to the sun, form the good habit of applying sunscreen daily regardless of how mild you may think the weather is.
(b) Exfoliate your face thoroughly: Try to exfoliate your face at least twice in a week. It is necessary to exfoliate your facial skin because it helps to get rid of dead cells on your face. It also helps to unblock the closed pores of your facial skin, enabling your skin to breathe.
(c) Cleanse your face twice daily: Yes, this is another basic step to a more beautiful you. Try and cleanse your face with a good cleansing lotion and soft treated cotton wool twice daily after bath. Remember that soap will not get rid of all the oil on your face and when they are just left there or covered with cream, foundation and compact powder, you may end up having some pimples.
(d) Wash your powder pad twice a week: So many women hardly wash their powder pads as and when due. That is why they complain that their compact powder causes pimples, rashes and acne on their face. Check that pad, has it been washed?
(e) Remember to have your eyebrows shaped: If your eyebrows are lush, you may still have them shaped in way to suit your face. There is no harm in that.I want to assure you that if you follow all the above name tips you would never regret it.
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By: Lolade Ademo
5 Common Beauty Mistakes That Age Your Skin Prematurely
December 10th, 2009
What you do now can affect how quickly you age 10 or 20 years down the road. Prevention is better than cure when it comes to premature aging of your skin. Whether you look 10 years older than your peers or 10 years younger than them a few decades from now all depends on what you do now.
These 5 mistakes are
1. Too many late nights.
Whether you party all night long or work through the night to meet deadlines. Not getting enough sleep at night is going to affect your skin. In the short run, you look terrible the next day without makeup. In the long run, your skin ages faster. Some of the women who stay beautiful into their twillight years have always gone to bed early every night since they were young.
2. Too much crash diets.
Lose weight suddenly then gain it back and lose it again quickly, over and over again. Your skin has to readjust to all that weight gain and weight loss so often it loses its elasticity. Result.. you end up looking older than if you had lost weight gradually and kept at a certain weight.
3. Too much junk food
All that sugar, salt, additives, artificial flavouring, cholesterol, fat and unhealthy stuff in your junk food all adds up. It gets worse if for lunch, you have a pack of M & Ms on the go. Not only do you get fat, stretching your skin further, you deprive your body of the nutrients you need. Your skin needs vitamins, minerals, proteins and other nutrients you get from fresh fruit, vegetables, meats, grains and wholesome food. The women who look younger than their actual age tend to have healthy diets. Snack on fresh fruit and nuts instead of junk food. Eat proper nutritious meals.
4. Getting a real tan
No doubt, lots of A-list celebrities sport that glowing tan. The gorgeous crowd is often a tan crowd. You can get that tan too, but do it without the sun or UV lamps. You see, a real tan is produced when the UV rays of the sun damage your skin. It might look healthy but someone who tans regularly when young usually ends up with leathery skin decades later, more wrinkles than their peers, and that is IF they are lucky. Some even end up with skin cancer. The smart way to get that gorgeous tan is use sunless tanning products.
5. Not using sunscreen.
You might use all the anti-aging skin care products you can find, but if you skip sunscreen, all is in vain. Sun damage is one of the biggest culprits in the premature appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. Whether you are at the beach or going out to get some groceries, your skin needs protection from the sun. Each morning, as part of your skin care routine, apply a sunblock moisturizer.
By: Janice Wee
