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Improve Your Skin Health With These Simple Habits
Skin health is an essential part of overall wellbeing. It protects us against infection, helps regulate body temperature and provides a barrier between the inside and the outside world.
Our skin is constantly exposed to environmental factors such as sunlight, air pollution, cigarette smoke, chemicals and other pollutants. These factors cause damage to the skin cells, leading to premature ageing. They also increase the risk of developing certain types of cancer.
In this newsletter, we provide you with routines and habits that if kept up regular, really makes a big difference to your skin health.
Simple habits are highly effective..
We all want healthy, radiant skin, but it's often hard to achieve. These simple habits may seem obvious, but are often neglected regularly and can make a huge difference to your appearance.
3 Important skincare tips for over 40’s
1. In your 40’s cute freckles develop into age spots!
Skin protection means good looks longevity. Sun exposure causes premature signs of aging including wrinkled skin, brown spots, and discolouration. It also increases inflammation, which makes us more prone to breakouts.
Even if you have been a lifelong sun seeker, it is never too late to prevent further sun damage. Consistency is the key with sunscreen you really do have to apply at least SPF 30 every day (and ideally throughout the day, too) to keep your skin glowy, youthful, and, most importantly, safe.
Apply on all exposed skin surfaces every day with a commitment to consistency. This includes hands, exposed forearms, neck (front, sides, back) and décolleté in addition to the face.
Remember, surfer girl chic tan becomes leather-faced hag as you approach your 50’s!
2. Your skin loves an active life, diet & exercise…wear a waterproof SPF & a cap!
A regular exercise routine will do wonders for your health and appearance. Regular workouts improve muscle strength, endurance and flexibility. This translates into an improved posture, stronger bones and muscles, increased energy level and reduced risk of heart disease. A daily workout should be done every morning before breakfast. Try doing 10 minutes of cardio followed by 20-30 minutes of weight training or yoga. You may want to try Pilates or aerobics classes if you have access to one.
Foods your skin will love..
Talking of food, here are some research-based recommendations for what to eat to say goodbye to wrinkles, and say hello to soft, supple and radiant skin all year around.
Mangoes contain compounds with antioxidant properties that protect components of the skin, like collagen for firmness and volume.
Tomatoes prevent skin cancer, with one study in mice revealing eating tomatoes every day decreased the development of skin cancer tumours by 50 per cent after UV light exposure!
Olive oil helps lower the risk of severe facial photoaging, which is basically cumulative damage to your skin that results in wrinkles, dark spots, and discolouration, all from long-term sunlight exposure.
Cocoa flavanols Scientists discovered that cocoa flavanols (from dark chocolate) decreased roughness and scaling on your skin, increased skin hydration, and helped to support the skin's defences against damage from UV rays.
Green tea has many skin benefits as its compounds can rejuvenate dying skin cells. This is helpful for healing wounds or certain skin conditions like psoriasis or dandruff. These conditions are caused by inflammation and the overproduction of skin cells, so green tea can slow down the production of these cells, suppressing this inflammation.
White tea has anti-cancer and anti-ageing properties. One study indicates that some ingredients in white tea may protect the skin from oxidative stress and immune cell damage.
Kale is one of the best sources of lutein and zeaxanthin. Lutein and zeaxanthin may protect against light-induced skin damage, especially from UV rays.
Omega-3 found in oily fish, walnuts, and pumpkin seeds or oils such as linseed oil and corn oil may prevent dryness and scaling of the skin.
Soy may help to improve crow's feet skin wrinkles that appear at the outer corner of the eyes in menopausal women.
What about alcohol?
Research uncovered that higher alcohol intake was associated with a higher risk of developing basal cell carcinoma and cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma.
For each 10-gram increase in consumption of alcohol per day, the risk of basal cell carcinoma rose by 7 per cent and the risk of cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma rose by 11 per cent.
Limit stress in your life
Ever get an unsightly pimple surfacing on your face, always before an important event, right? Well, scientists have identified some links between stress levels and skin problems. Researchers suspect that stress increases the quantity of sebum, which is the oily substance that blocks pores. This, in turn, leads to greater acne severity.
Using stress-reduction techniques could help to keep your skin looking fresh and clear. Great regular disciplines such as tai chi, yoga or meditation can make a real difference, so go try them out and pick your favourite so you don't just feel great, you look great too!
3. In your 60’s stuff you wished you had known and used it on your skin
Your mom didn’t know that applying a clinically proven science-backed VITAMIN C in an intense brightening formula is clinically proven to restore skin health & improve scars & pigment. Vitamin C has been shown to help reduce fine wrinkles and improve elasticity, it also helps boost collagen production, which keeps skin looking plump and youthful.
And if like many of us, you knew none of this stuff, our experienced nurse practitioners can help you with a bio stimulating treatment such as Profhilo, or Intense Pulsed Light, or Radio Frequency Skin Tightening & micro-needling.
Many hundreds of men & women just like you are perplexed by your ageing skin- and they return to the Qutis Nurse Led Team.
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