The Best Home Skin Care Tips to Keep Your Skin Healthy and Beautiful

Behind every person with great skin, lies a great skincare routine. That’s the secret ingredient to keeping your skin looking its best in between visits to your dermatologist. Whether you are a patient of Dr. Green at Green Dermatology & Cosmetic Center, a premier medical and cosmetic dermatology center near Boca, or you are a patient of another dermatologist in Boca and its surrounding area, the goal is the same: healthy, nourished skin at all times.

Green Dermatology & Cosmetic Center wants to arm its patients with the best skin care routine possible. While we do offer a full retail line of specially formulated skin care products and services to enhance the skin, there are four easy steps you can take on your own, right in the comfort of your own home to ensure your commitment to regular dermatology visits doesn’t go to waste.

These are some of our favorite, inexpensive, and practical home skin care tips. After all, we all want skin that glows radiantly and makes us look and feel great… Well, here’s how to get it!

Hydration: This is Skin Care 101. Keeping skin hydrated is extremely important. It’s the most basic and most simple skin care rule you can follow. Moisturizers are easy to find, affordable, and come in various formats depending on your skin type. According to this article on How to Build a Skin Care Routine, moisturizers are the one product that doctors recommend using year-round, for all skin types. As we age, our skin loses its natural ability to retain moisture, which is why a good moisturizer is an important asset to keeping our skin hydrated. Just as we drink water every day to keep ourselves from getting thirsty, our skin also requires that same thirst-quenching drink.

Sleep: An article on How to Best Take Care of Your Skin At Night explains that at night, our body’s goal is to repair any damage done during that day, including damage from pollution, sun, and stress, as well as to hydrate since we lose more water from our skin as we sleep. New skin cells are formed during this rest period, so it’s crucial to take advantage of those Z’s and actually get them… But not without having a tried and true skin care routine first. Which leads us to our third piece of advice.

Cleansing Before Bed: Make sure to remove any makeup and/or toxins that have made their way onto your skin during the day. You don’t necessarily need a complicated, ten-step process; sometimes all you need is a little soap and water to wash away the day’s debris. But those with sensitive skin or other skin ailments might want to go dive a little deeper into the skin care routine ocean with products like cleansers, face masks, serums, retinoids, and eye cream. And, as we’ve already talked about, moisturizing should not be skipped. At the very least, before drifting off to dreamland, make sure to wash your face with soap and water, and moisturize with a hydrating lotion or cream.

Food: Last, but not least, we turn to something that you may not automatically think of as being part of a skincare routine. What we put in our bodies is just as important as what we put on Our diets directly affects our skin. There are some foods that research shows are better for us and our skin in particular, such as healthy fats. According to Reader’s Digest, certain kinds of fat improve our health, specifically those with monounsaturated fats and polyunsaturated fats. The article states that by including more of these healthy unsaturated fats in your diet, they can help to protect the skin from drying out and dehydrating, and it also keeps out harmful substances from the environment. Ready to go out shopping and stock up the kitchen with these healthy fats? Look for things high in omega-3s, like olive oil, walnuts (unsalted) and fatty fish (like salmon). Just keep in mind that when it comes to healthy fats, these products are still high in calories, so no need to overdo it. In this case, a little goes a very long way.
 
For more of the best skin care advice or treatments to compliment your skin homework, visit the Green Dermatology & Cosmetic Center today!

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