Do This Every Morning to Look As Young As 18
You have all the ingredients you need at home: keep your skin looking young and healthy with these natural home remedies!
Billions are spent each year on cosmetic products that promise to delete
wrinkles, lighten age spots, and eliminate itching, flaking, or
redness. But the simplest and cheapest way to keep your skin healthy and
youthful looking is to stay out of the sun.
Sunlight is a major cause of wrinkles, dryness, and age spots. Your skin
does change with age. For instance, you sweat less which leads to
increased dryness. Aging skin becomes thinner and loses fat, so it looks
less plump and smooth. Underlying structures, veins and bones in
particular, become more prominent. Your skin can also take longer to
recover when injured.
These changes can be drastically delayed by staying out of the sun.
Although nothing can totally undo sun damage, the skin sometimes can
restore itself. So, it’s never too late to protect yourself from the
harmful results of the sun.
5 Ways to Slow the Aging Process:
1. Wear protective clothing. A hat with a wide brim shades your neck,
ears, eyes, and head. Look for sunglasses with a label saying the
glasses block 99 to 100 percent of the sun’s rays. Wear loose,
lightweight, long-sleeved shirts and long pants or long skirts when in
the sun.
2. Check your skin often. Look for changes in the size, shape, color, or
feel of birthmarks, moles, and spots. If you find any changes that
worry you, see a doctor. The American Academy of Dermatology suggests
that older, fair-skinned people have a yearly skin check by a doctor as
part of a regular physical exam.
3. Avoid artificial tanning. Don’t use sunlamps and tanning beds, as
well as tanning pills and tanning makeup. Tanning pills have a color
additive that turns your skin orange after you take them. The FDA has
approved this color additive for coloring foods but not for tanning the
skin. The large amount of color additive in tanning pills may be
harmful. Tanning make-up products are not suntan lotions and will not
protect your skin from the sun.
4. Use sunscreen. Sunscreens are rated in strength according to a sun
protection factor (SPF), which ranges from 2 to 30 or higher. A higher
number means longer protection. Buy products with an SPF number of 15 or
higher. Also look for products whose label says: broad spectrum
(meaning they protect against both types of harmful sun rays(UVA and
UVB) and water resistant (meaning they stay on your skin longer, even if
you get wet or sweat a lot). Remember to reapply the lotion as needed.
5. Stay out of the sun. Avoid the sun between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. This is
when the sun?s UV rays are strongest. Don?t be fooled by cloudy skies.
Harmful rays pass through clouds. UV radiation also can pass through
water, so don’t assume you?re safe if you?re in the water and feeling
cool.