Everyday, you engage in a beauty routine that includes bathing, shampooing your hair, drying your hair, shaving, and trimming your nails. For most people, hygiene and personal grooming are good practices they consistently practice. Would you be willing to modify your routine if doing so made your skin appear more beautiful and created a better-looking you?
The fact is most adults over thirty years of age in fact wash too frequently most of the time. They will frequently shower in the morning before work, once after a workout at the gym, and sometimes once more before bed. If you are spending ten or more minutes in the shower, that is far too long for your skin. Alternatively, try to reduce your time to around five minutes. I have found a good alternative to the shower is to take steam showers or saunas which can open up the pores and detoxify the skin.
While recurrent washing is good for cleanliness, it unfortunately removes many of the oils from your skin, which some level is required for healthy skin. Removing too much oil often causes dry, irritated, or itchy skin, particularly for the winter months, and if your shower doesn’t have a water filter, you are exposing your skin to chlorine and other chemicals responsible for causing damage.
Read the following ideas to help your bathing turn into a healthier habit:
1. Do not use a washcloth on sensitive areas of the body, particularly the mucous membranes. Alternatively try using soft sponges or loofahs in a rounded action along your skin, using glycerine type soaps.
2. Use medium hot water in the shower, the cooler the better, but not too cold.
3. If you have normal to dry skin, use unscented or sensitive skin soap on your body and either a soap free cleanser or nothing at all on mucous membranes.
4. Glycerin soap is best for those with oily skin. I use this type of soap and it removes simply enough oil without drying out my skin.
5. Miss a shower as often as you can. Many people will find this odd advice, but it’s good to add to the amount of time in between showers. Skipping a shower for a whole day once or twice a week, or taking a steam shower, especially in the winter allows your skin to produce and keep its natural oils.
6. Make quite sure you use shampoos that contain mostly natural ingredients. Many commercial products contain synthetic chemicals, petrochemicals, and various dyes and synthetic coloring. All of these are highly harmful to your skin, so it is best to stay away from them if at all possible.
So that you can enhance the health of your skin, take some time to look over your shower practices, Diminish the time in your shower, use a water filter to get rid of toxins from the water, massage your skin, and use only natural products for your skin and hair.