Skincare Basics

 

 To help celebrate the extended offer of our spa case for $79, I thought we could talk about skincare basics.

An honest question to my readers - What do you use to take care of your face? 

For those of you who do the least amount of work on yourself, you not only are not taking care of YOU, but you are aging your skin faster. Did you know that ever day you do NOT wash your face, you are aging it 11 days? Think back to all those lazy weekends or late night outings where you were just too tired to take care of your skin. You left all that gunk on your face to sink into all your skin layers. I'm not just talking makeup but daily oil build up, pollutants in the air (the industry calls them free radicals) and anything you had on your hands then touched your face with. Gives you the willies doesn't it?! It did me when I found this out. 

Most women don't know how to take care of their skin. I'll admit I was one of those. One of the many benefits I have gotten from BeautiControl has been ever increasing knowledge of how to take care of myself and teach others to do the same. How many of you are using the same soap on your face that washes your body (aka your feet and butt)? Don't you think you should have someone more specific/special for the part of you that shows YOU to the world?

Today I'm not going to get to deep on the technical side of skincare, like the layers of the skin and how it can be damaged. We are just going to focus on starting with the basics to make your face healthy again.

1. Cleaner - you have got to remove all that GUNK on your face twice a day. Whether you wear makeup or not! Don't you wash your hands multiple times a day? Then why wouldn't you wash the other part of you that is constantly exposed to the elements of our environment?

2. Scrub - This takes off the top, loose layers of your skin so that the newer, more fresh cells you have are shown to the world. It also helps to put a healthy glow back into your skin. You can do this with a regular scrub, a mask, chemical peel or microderm abrasion. I recommend doing this 2-3 times a week, but NOT everyday. You have to give your skin time to balance back out. For every layer of skin removed you face produces a new layer. 

3. Toner/Tonic - This is a way to get even deeper into your pores to clean out all the caked in stuff like makeup, oil, etc. It is also a great pore minimizer and balances your pH..

4. Eye Creme - Women stop producing moisture under their eyes as early as puberty. No wonder we get dark circles so easily. You need to put moisture back in to keep the capillaries under your skin strong and from leaking or breaking. This is what causes the dark or bruised look under our eyes.

 

5. Moisturizer (preferably with SPF for during the day) - You can't just clean out your pores/skin and expect to go about your day. You need to protect it too. By cleaning out all the natural and unnatural oils in your skin your body starts to produce MORE to balance all the layers back out. Putting on moisturizer protects your skin from producing extra oil because those top layers are healthy and full. BTW - you need a sunscreen on your face everyday due to all the UVB and UVA you soak in, even just walking to your car. (I'll get more indepth into that another day).

All this should take you under 10 minutes, twice a day. Who can't take that much time to better themselves? If you are interested in the case above I can get you a personalized skin prescription to help you better use these products which last 4 months.~Every woman is different so of course every woman's face is too.! So get out there and take care of yourself by adding these steps to your daily routine.