There is various home dry skin remedies that you can make to help sooth and cure dry chapped skin.
For example, taking a milk bath once a week aids to sooth and nourishes the skin. Prepare your bath water and add a couple of tablespoons of powdered milk, a couple of drops of almond oil and a few drops of your favorite perfume or bath oils. Then just lay back, relax and let the milk pamper your skin and nourish it.
Another good tip is to exfoliate your skin, once a week, with a facial mask, this helps to eliminate dull, dry surface skin. Use a natural face mask and not one that contains bleaching and harsh chemicals such as benzoyl peroxide or alcohol.
Not everyone understands that maintaining a healthy diet can effect your skin type and moisturize your skin. If you consider the fact that your body is composed of 80% water, having less water in your body produces a significant level of dryness.
Balanced Diets to help Dry Skin
* Consume plenty of vegetables, grains, fruits, seeds, and nuts. Consume a good portion of proteins from vegetable sources. Increase your portion on raw vegetables because they contain more vitamins than boiled vegetables.
* Eat foods such as asparagus, onions, garlic, eggs, these are all rich in sulfur and help to maintain your skin young looking.
* Consume plenty of colorful vegetables, especially yellow and orange. These are rich in beta carotene and anti oxidants.
* Eating plenty of omega 3 oils in a daily diet help to maintain your skin supple and moist, flack seed oil is a good choice as it has Omega 3′s and Omega 6 linoleic acids. These elements are transformed into a hormone like substance called Prostaglandins, which aids with healthy skin.
* Carrots, cantaloupes and apricots are all curing fruits for your very dry skin. These are all highly rich in vitamins A & C with help to maintain your skin moistened and smooth. All the fruits are rich in vitamin B5 and pantothenic acids. Pantothenic acid is needed for the synthesis of fats and oils required by your skin.
* Drink at least 8-10 glasses of water everyday maintains your skin sufficiently hydrated.
* Avoid consuming fried food, animal fats, and heated cooked vegetable oils. Cooking oils leads to the production of free radicals, which can have negative effects on your skin.
* Stay away from elaborated sugars that are in soda pop, chocolate (dark chocolate is ok) potato chips, or other manufactured junk foods.
* Avoid consuming caffeinated drinks and alcohol; these drinks take away essential minerals and fluids that are good for your skin.
* Smoking has a damaging effect on your skin for various reasons. Nicotine shrinks blood vessels, including the tiny capillaries that are present in the skin. This depletes the skin of the oxygen and nutrients it requires for good health. Smoking can also make your skin dry and leathery.
Following these simple tips will help treat dry skin conditions.
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- Patricia Bascunan