The damage you inflict on your skin and remedies

Indoor Heat

Sleeping is enjoyable, especially when there is moderate heat. With the windows shut, the room will be hot enough for comfortable god night rest, how enjoyable yet this not good for your skin. When the widows are shut and the room well heated, the only source of water in the room is you. Hence the atmosphere absorbs moisture out of your skin. You must know that indoor atmosphere carries a lot of chemicals than outdoor, which are harmful to your skin. This chemicals settling on your skin bring about skin reaction like eczema.

Remedy

Keep your windows open and reduce the heating system. You can put water in a bowl near your radiator. It simply humidifies the atmosphere reducing moisture been sucked out of your skin. Natural cleaners such as bicarbonate of soda, aromatherapy burners and peppermint will help your skin too.  

Hot Bath

Getting up from your bed, you quickly dash into the bath room for hot shower with soap to wash off the sweat; you wash your face and body alike. What this do is that it is destroying your skin. The skin has a pH 4-6 , while soap has 9- 11. This difference of acidity can destroy skin reducing the natural oil also draining the moisture in your skin; it only leaves the skin to be vulnerable to bacteria attack. Interestingly and appealing hot shower is , it only affects the protective barrier in the skin. A study of the British Journal of Dermatology shows that shower water is a trigger for sensitive skin in nearly a third of women.

Caffeinated Drink

It is a custom among us to have coffee every morning, to some without fixing a coffee drink the morning has not started yet. But the stake truth is this; it is a toxic that zapped out energy from you. the temporary invigoration you feel after a cup of coffee is actually a stimulate that releases adrenaline and your stress hormone called cortisol What it does is that it increases your blood sugar. What coffee does is that it naturally dehydrates your skin. An average cup of coffee contains 75mg caffeine while tea contains 30mg. you must insist on decaffeinated coffee, if you drink.

Sunshine

The ozone is the most damaging agent to the human skin, the pollution in the cloud with the  ray of the sun reduces the vitamin E in the skin , this allow the ultraviolet ray to penetrate deep into your skin. Free radicals accompanying the ray can destroy DNA and ultimately cause cancer.

Remedy

A moisturizer that has silicone will protect your skin against the environmental ray; also the use of broad spectrum sunscreen will shield the skin against the penetration of the sun ray. The intake of antioxidants like vitamin E, A and C can combat free radicals too.