Bounce back into action with a little spring skin care! With the blooming of flowers right around the corner, now is a good time to evaluate your skin and do a few things to prepare for warmer weather. When the temperature gets warm outside, everything explodes into full color, from dark and dismal to bright and vibrant. Spring is also a good time to bring back the color in your skin!
Spring is a time of the year that we associate with starting anew…. Get rid of the old and bring on the new! You can be ready for the warm spring air by starting to make a few subtle changes. There are several things you can do to create the spring beauty in you. Be sure you’re prepared! Ready-set-go!
Just a few
simple changes now
can really make
a big difference later!
See if you can
find the spring beauty
in you.
Essential Spring Skin Care
When your body's covered up with clothes all winter, you don’t really have a chance to moisturize well. Even if you do moisturize your skin, the elements are terribly drying and your clothes rub off the excess oils on your skin. For this reason, it's a good idea to start a good moisturizing regiment early in the spring. Be sure to apply lotion every day. Use a good Vitamin E lotion and really slather it on. Be sure to drink enough water to flush accumulated toxins and replenish lost moisture.
Now that you're shedding your clothes, it might be a good time to shed some of the dead skin cells on your body and face that have accumulated during the winter months. Skin brushing is something anyone can do to help exfoliate dead skin cells on your skin and flush the lymphatic system.
Alpha hydroxy acids (AHA's) help slough off accumulated layers of dead skin cells on the face. I've been using Neutrogena Healthy Skin Face Lotion for years and swear by it. It has a higher percentage AHA than most. (Which helps slough dead skin cells.) Another popular AHA is Olay Age Defying Beta Hydroxy Cream. Apply AHA's at night for best results. For good facial skin care, use toners that have salicylic acid in them to help deep clean and shrink pores. Toners, like AHA's, come in different percentages, but toners have salicylic acids in them, not alpha hydroxy acids. If you have oily skin, use higher percentages. If you have dry skin, use a very low percentage, if any at all. Olay Refreshing Toner works well for all skin types. Toners for sensitive skin and organic toners work great for those with normal to dry skin!
Another way to exfoliate your skin is to use scrubs. Micro-Dermabrasion Kits and/or facial scrubs both work to help to remove dead skin cells from the surface of your skin. Just as flowers wake up in the spring, spring skin care involves waking up your skin!
Start adding some color to your skin by using sunless tanning lotions like L'Oreal Sublime Self Tanning Lotion or Neutrogena Sun Fresh Sunless Lotion. These are inexpensive but work really well for the price. Use Neutrogena Build-A-Tan for Faces Sunless Tanning to add color back to your face slowly. Sunless tanners start a glow on your skin and help prepare your skin for hot summer days. These lotions work by bringing melanin to the surface. Melanin is the pigment in your skin that makes it look tan. When melanin is closer to the surface of the skin, there is less chance of burning the first times you get out in the sun.
Spring sun is not as hot as summer sun, but there are quite a few spring days that get rather warm indeed. Don’t forget to protect your skin as the sun rises higher and more directly in the sky. Your skin needs protection from UVA and UVB rays especially since there has been little exposure during the winter months. This makes the skin more susceptible to burning the first few times you’re out in the sun. Just as you have to wear sunblock in the winter months, you’ll have to continue using them into the spring.
Over the winter months, chances are that you’ve put on a few pounds eating comfort foods. Its easy to do when you’re huddled in layers of clothes during cold winter months. The problem is that junk foods are full of preservatives and non essential fats. These are toxic to your system. When your body is toxic, your skin shows it.
One of the best ways to get rid of debris in your system, is to do a nutritional health cleanse. These help get rid of accumulated toxic build up in your body and that helps renew and refresh your skin. Its like clearing skin from the inside out and should be an important part of spring skin care. It's what movie stars do to maintain their great skin.
Another way to make your skin glow is to make sure you have regular bowel movements by getting more fibrous foods. Spring skin care should include eating lots of fresh fruits and vegetables, preferably raw. Fruit is most beneficial if it is eaten alone on an empty stomach. If you have to cook vegetables, steam them lightly until they’re just tender. Cabbage is also a good food to consume frequently as it promotes growth of lactobacteria in the intestinal tract which helps sweep debris from the colon. Eat only lean meat and cut out excess sugars.
If you don’t want saggy skin, spring skin care should also include toning your muscles. Your skin won’t look firm and beautiful if it’s not toned up a bit. Winter can be a time of laziness. Who wants to take a walk outside when it's freezing cold? If you want to firm your body, strength training is the best exercise to get tone fast. Strength training combines cardio exercises with weight bearing exercises. You get two in one! Backward lunges while lifting weights at the same time are a great way to start. Another strength training exercise is to lift weights while you walk.
When you lift weights above your head, be sure to lift them in a ‘Y’ instead of straight up. Lifting in a Y position helps define the biceps and increases strength in the deltoids. To tone triceps, simply lift your weights above your head. Now turn the weights around facing backwards. Slowly lower the weights down and back up, behind your head. This exercise helps to tone that unsightly hanging skin. (called 'wings')
Just a few simple changes now can really make a big difference later. See if you can find the spring beauty in you by trying a few of these suggestions!
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. Apply AHA's at night for best results. For good facial skin care, use toners that have salicylic acid in them to help deep clean and 
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work great for those with normal to dry skin!
and/or facial scrubs
both work to help to remove dead skin cells from the surface of your skin. Just as flowers wake up in the spring, spring skin care involves waking up your skin!
or Neutrogena Sun Fresh Sunless Lotion
. These are inexpensive but work really well for the price. Use Neutrogena Build-A-Tan for Faces Sunless Tanning
to add color back to your face slowly. Sunless tanners start a glow on your skin and help prepare your skin for hot summer days. These lotions work by bringing melanin to the surface. Melanin is the pigment in your skin that makes it look tan. When melanin is closer to the surface of the skin, there is less chance of burning the first times you get out in the sun.
