11 Donts For Your Skin Care
Here are the 11 Donts for your Skin Care
1.Not Drinking enough water:
This is perhaps the most repeated advice and the least followed. Your body needs
at least two litres a day to remove toxins from your system, partly through
your kidneys and partly through your skin. Lacking this, toxin build-up will
affect your skin as well as your general health, making you tired and dull.
Keep that bottle on your desk, and drink!
2. Picking your pimples:
We do it unconsciously, when nervous, or just as a habit. pimples don’t harm
your face permanently. What leaves untreatable scars is your picking, pinching
and playing with them — scars so deep that even dermatologist cannot get rid
of them 100 per cent. Prevention is the best cure, so stop touching your face
and start proper anti-acne treatment.
3. Smoking disrupting the normal breathing of Skin:
Smoking beedi,cigar and cigarette blocks the pores on the skin thus disrupting
the normal “breathing” of the skin. So a smokers skin grows “older” much faster
than that of a non smoker.
4. Shaving the wrong way:
And it isn’t just men I’m talking to. Women who use razors for body hair also
beware — shaving against the direction of hair growth (ie from below upwards)
causes ingrown hair, damaged follicles and introduces infections into your hair
roots that can cause painful recurrent boils. Shave only in the direction of
hair growth — this will prevent damage to your skin.
5. Not using sunscreen on a hill station
You’ve gone for a high altitude vacation and the cold weather makes you believe
you don’t need sun protection — wrong! At higher altitudes, there are lesser
layers of atmosphere between you and the sun to filter UV rays, so your
ultra-violet exposure increases. You need your sunscreen all the more!
6. Taking hormone supplements for body building:
It isn’t just the men, even women who want a ‘toned’ look quickly take DHEA
(DeHydroEpiAndroste rone) supplements. These are known to cause acne even in
normal skin, and flare up existing acne. Protein supplements are fine though,
and actually help your skin.
7. Not reapplying moisture / sunscreen:
Are you the jet setting type who slaps on lotion in the morning and then spends
the next two hours at work without a further thought about your skin? Air
conditioned offices sap moisture from your skin in a couple of hours. Also, no
sunscreen retains its effect beyond two hours. Apply frequently — at least
during your lunch break, after a quick face wash.
8. Waxing your upper lip / facial hair:
A total nightmare for your delicate facial skin — the trauma causes tiny
microscopic bleeding into your hair follicles that, over time, heal with
scarring and end up causing roughness and pigmentation that is extremely hard
to treat.
9. Going on a ‘proteins only’ diet:
Fad diets deprive your skin (and body) of essential nutrients. You need
vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and various micronutrients that a single food
diet cannot give you. Talk to a professional dietician before embarking on
drastic diet plans and get them to prescribe the appropriate nutritional
supplements.
10. Late night partying:
Your body sleeps at night, but your skin doesn’t — most of its repair and
renewal work is done while you’re in bed. Depriving it of the nightly eight
hours of rejuvenation will obviously leave it looking dull and tired. Good
sleep is a must for good skin!
11. Stressing out:
Stress shows up after years on your heart and blood pressure, but almost
immediately on your skin. So listen to your skin when it is trying to tell you
something — patchy complexion, blemishes, dullness, itchy redness, rashes
appearing at periods of high stress, acne flare-ups — all point to unwarranted
high stress levels. Try yoga, meditation, exercise, or whatever your best
stress buster is.
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