How to Keep your Skin Moisturized

Your skin retain moisture better when you use a moisturizer designed for your skin type. But totally correcting dry skin isn't just the job of a moisturizer.

You also create skin moisture through your lifestyle—by eating well; by avoiding habits that harm your skin, such as smoking, drinking to much alcoholic beverages, and ingesting too much caffeine; and by proper exercise.
When you hydrate and nourish your skin from the inside out, it is easier for your moisturizer to do its job and protect your skin from the environment.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• water
• cotton pads
• healthy foods
• exercises ideas

1. Proper Cleansing Routine
   Use a natural cleanser with low acidity, luke warm water and clean cotton pads.
   You can make your own cleanser with apple cider vinegar or buy one. For better result make sure it contains no alcohol.
   Dry skin will do well with a milk, cream base cleanser.

2. 

   Rinse your face with luke warm water and towel it off gently with a clean face cloth. Do not dry your face totally. Keeping some water on your face before applying your moisturizer, will hydrate the face more.

3. 

   Choose your moisturizer carefully. A mature dry skin needs a cream rich in essential fatty acids, essential minerals and antioxidants.

4. 

   Best Foods for Healthy Dry Skin
   You need a diet rich in Omega 3 and 9, antioxidants and essential minerals.
   Dry skin especially mature dry skin do not process essential fatty acids very well and is out of balance. Trace minerals such as zinc, copper and magnesium help to rebalance the PH of the skin and keep it hydrated.
   
   What to eat?
   Leafy green vegetables
   Nuts and seeds
   Olice, pumpkin and flax seed oil
   Cold water fish (salmon, sardine, macquerel)
   Fruits and vegetables

5. Dry skin age faster than oily skin and benefit a lot from exercises.
   Exercising such as aerobic, walking or any kind of movement that bring extra oxygen in the body will help remove toxins and dead cells.

Tips & Warnings

• The road to healthy dry skin is more than just using the right moisturizer.
• A multi facet approach will hydrate and nourish your skin from the inside out and outside in
• When choosing your moisturizer, look for face cream rich in essential minerals,antioxidants and essential fatty acids
• Healthy skin and healthy body go hand in hand

Resources

• Best Moisturizer for Dry Skin
• Mature Dry Skin
• Foods that Prevent Wrinkles
• Nutrition for Smooth Skin (Free Ebook Download