While social distancing is drastically changing our daily lives, the move to spending more time indoors can negatively affect your skin.
While social distancing is drastically changing our daily lives, the move to spending more time indoors can negatively affect your skin.
Even for those who are healthy, staying home to reduce the spread of coronavirus is a big change in environment and routine, both of which can impact your skin. A change in diet, activity and air can result in facial breakouts, dryness and other negative reactions.
To combat those issues, here are our simple tips you can use to practice good skin care while you are inside!
Reduce Stress
While addressing mental health in this time is an issue in itself, depression, anxiety and stress can cause facial breakouts and premature aging. Taking care of your mental health first is a good way to begin your skin care practices.
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Eat Healthy
A balanced diet that’s one of the best ways to help your skin. If you can, try cooking meals with ingredients like fatty fish, green vegetables, blueberries, pumpkin seeds and walnuts – and avoid dairy.
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Stay Hydrated
Drinking water also reduces acne. Health authorities suggest the amount of water to drink per day is eight 8-ounce glasses of water.
Avoid Alcohol
Drinking alcohol harms the skin through immediate breakouts and long-term aging effects, and should be avoided, or at least should be drank in moderation.
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Stay Active
Skipping your workouts will negatively impact your skin. It’s important to stay active at home, as working out delivers blood flow and oxygen to your face, improving your skin and giving you that post-workout glow.
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Get Enough Sleep
Sleep is an important part of skin care. Even though your work schedule may change if you’re now working from home, you should make sure to get enough rest for the benefit of your skin. Most studies say that adults need between seven and nine hours of sleep per night.
Avoid Touching your Face
Just because you won’t mess up your lipstick, doesn’t mean you should touch your face. Face-touching can spread dirt, oil, and bacteria to your face, which can clog pores.
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Make DIY Face Masks
To help pass the time while taking care of your skin, try making a DIY face mask. There are plenty that you can make using materials found in your home and kitchen. You can combine a variety of commonly-used food ingredients like egg whites, oatmeal, honey, plain greek yogurt, avocado, lemon, sugar and more to make a variety of different all-natural masks.
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Stay safe every one and let me know bellow what you are doing to keep your skin well behaved during this time!
Featured image by: Jackie O’sullivan
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