Facts About Dehydrated Skin - Part 3

Begging the Dehydration
After you have made the lifestyle and environmental changes suggested, it’s time to go to work on your skin. Follow these suggestions:

• Correcting dehydrated skin begins with faithfully completing your daily skin care ritual. Be sure to cleanse, tone, and moisturize twice a day, morning and evening.
• Next, exfoliate regularly and gently. You need to remove the buildup of dry skin cells and keratinization from your skin. Use gentle AHAs to dissolve dead skin cell buildup. Improve your skin’s natural moisturizing factor with lactic acid, urea, squalene, glycerine, or urea treatments.
• For a special skin treatment, apply a hydrating mask that stays moist on the skin. Be sure your mask isn’t intended to actually dry while on the skin.
• When outdoors, use moisturizer and sunscreen that prevent skin moisture loss.
• Choose a foundation that seals in moisture, such as one that contains silicone, silica, or glyconucleopeptides. Take essential fatty acids, such as those found in fish oil capsules or flax seed oil, every day. Take about 10 capsules or 2 tablespoons. They will make your skin soft and supple. Eat 5 to 10 servings of vegetables and fruits daily, or at least 2 with each meal.
• Keep your electrolytes in balance. Electrolytes help regulate the body’s hydration levels. Avoid Gatorade, because it’s full of sugars and artificial ingredients. Instead, use Emergen-C packets. Mix one in water when you feel dehydrated.

Salon Hydration
A visit to the skin care salon can prove beneficial to correcting dehydration. Ask for a hydrating facial. You’ll get a hydrating mask that contains humectants, vitamins, essential fatty acids, and perhaps collagen. The mask doesn’t dry on the face but stays moist and is removed with water. The skin care technician may use steam to add moisture topically, and then apply a healthy oil on top of a moisturizer. The process is relaxing, but it’s doing more than making you feel good. Your skin could look better immediately. With proper at-home maintenance, your skin can  stay moist, plump, and radiant.

Category: Skin Care