Beauty Tips (Part 2/3)
Posted by Olia | Under Beauty Tips Friday Dec 5, 2008There are few more beauty tips for you.
4. Always wear sunscreen. Make sure you always wear SPF 30+ on your face and around your eye area (make sure your SPF is suitable around eye area. Today everyone is aware of the damage that sun can do for our skin: dry skin, wrinkles, loss of elasticity, age spots and cancer. However it is good to have some sunlight that assist in vitamin D production in our skin. But choose morning and afternoon sun that is before 11am and after 3pm and it should be only for a short time - 5-10 minutes is enough for your skin.
5. Calcium. The adequate intake of calcium will help your skin look gorgeous. Get leafy vegetables that are rich in calcium. Diary is high in calcium but milk protein is not very well digested by our organism. So replace diary products with something like kale, broccoli and bok choy. Other good sources of calcium are canned sardines (with bones), mackerel and salmon (also with bones) and figs. Consider additional calcium intake as supplement to your diet if you think you don’t get enough calcium from the food you eat. You need about 1200-1500 mg of calcium in your early 20s, around 1000 mg between 20-40. If you are pregnant or breastfeeding you need 1200 mg of calcium daily. After menopause: if you are taking estrogen then daily calcium intake should be 1000 mg, if you are not taking estrogen – 1500 mg.
6. Exfoliate your skin regularly. If your skin is more on a dry side - once a week will be enough. If your skin is more on oily side - you can do that twice a week. Exfoliation removes dead skin cells that helps to make your skin smoother and also assists in better penetration of other creams you use to improve your skin. The simplest exfoliation can be done by using sugar. 2 table spoons of soft brown sugar mixed with 2 teaspoon of olive oil. Apply in circle motions on your face (for 30-60 seconds), wash it off thoroughly. You can use the same recipe to exfoliate your body. Simply increase the proportion of the sugar and oil (4 table spoons of sugar and 4 tea spoon of oil). For the body you can also use just white caster sugar to exfoliate your skin. Apply on dump skin (you can ad a little bit of water to sugar but be careful how much you add - otherwise sugar will dissolved completely. you can simply use slightly wet hand. The easiest way to use it is in the shower. Apply some body cream after.
7. Vitamin C. Another good friend for your skin and one of the first ingredients of beauty tips list is vitamin C. Vitamin C helps protect skin cells from free radicals damage. It is an essential building material of collagen. Collagen is responsible for smoothness of our skin. Vitamin C is found in oranges, lemons, limes, grapefruit, mangoes, papayas, kiwis and cantaloupes. Other sources of vitamin C are vegetables like broccoli, bean sprouts, green and red capsicum, cauliflower, brussel sprouts and leafy greens (like kale). We do not store vitamin C in our body therefore we need some vitamin C every day.
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