How to Naturally Maintain Youthful Skin

Youthful, Beautiful Skin

These days, people seem to maintain younger looking skin much longer in their lives, and I, for one, also intent to age as gracefully as possible. However, I am not one for artificial means such as surgeries and injections. So, I have decided to develop these natural anti-aging skin care habits that ensure healthy, youthful skin.

Difficulty:

Easy

Instructions

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   PROTECT YOUR SKIN FROM THE SUNS RAYS
   The most obvious way to keep younger looking skin is to protect it from harmful elements; especially from the damaging affects from too much sun exposure. Tanning booths also have the same impact on your skin that exposure to the sun does. Have beautiful skin by applying sunblock before spending time outdoors; it only takes 20 minutes for the sun to begin draining your skins natural moisture. Also, wearing a hat and clothing that shades or covers your skin would be beneficial in preventing over exposure to the suns rays.

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   STOP MAKING SQUINCHY FACES
   Maintain beautiful skin; by wearing sunglasses or a hat while outdoors to help prevent you from squinting so much. Squinting and other constant face scrunching, such as brow furrowing and puckering the lips, increases the chances of developing deep lines that increase the look of aging to otherwise youthful skin.

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   PROTECT YOUR FACE WHILE YOU SLEEP
   A good anti-aging skin care technique is to care for your skin by keeping your face off of your pillow. Cotton pillow cases tend to cause the skin to drag across the pillow surface creating wrinkles that can become permanent over time. To maintain younger looking skin, try sleeping on your back rather than with your face against the pillow. If you have difficulty sleeping on your back, consider using silk or satin pillow cases for beautiful skin.

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   EAT FOODS THAT PROMOTE HEALTHY SKIN
   Vitamins and minerals are important to maintaining healthy skin. Foods that contain a B-complex (found in nuts & seeds, bananas, avocados, mangos, grapes, and whole wheat), A vitamins (found in all dark-green and yellow-orange vegetables and fruits) and C vitamins (found in fruits, dark-green vegetables, red peppers, cauliflower, tomatoes and potatoes) are great anti-aging skin care foods that are best for nourishing skin; helping you to keep healthy, beautiful skin.

   If you smoke, find a way to stop for younger looking skin. Smoking causes premature aging of the skin as puckering the lips around the cigarettes results in wrinkling. Smoking also tends to decrease blood supply to the small blood vessels under the skin, causing premature aging and wrinkles in your beautiful skin.

   Remove caffeine and alcohol for healthy skin. Consuming caffeine from sodas and alcoholic drinks also has a dehydrating affect on the skin resulting in wrinkles.

   Keep your body properly hydrated by drinking at least 64 ounces of water per day for youthful skin. Drinking water is good anti-aging skin care as it helps the blood cells rejuvenate, washes out toxins from the body and keeps muscles flexible through proper hydration. Wouldn't it make sense that proper hydration would be also play an important role maintaining healthy, beautiful skin?

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   EXERCISE YOUR BODY AND YOUR SKIN
   People who are generally in good shape and remain in good shape seem to have healthier, more elastic skin than those who are not. So a regular exercise routine is not just good for the heart, the muscles, the bones, and to lower stress; it also seems to be beneficial in maintaining younger looking skin.

   Are you aware that you can also exercise your facial skin? In oriental medicine, people are taught an anti-aging technique of facial massage and facial exercise in order to maximize stimulation and circulation in the facial muscles and skin. One form of this anti-aging skin care facial massage is to use your fingertips to gently tap, or to rub gentle tiny circles along all of the skin of your face and neck. There are other types of facial massage and facial exercise techniques available, and they all have one thing in common; an anti-aging skin care technique to help naturally maintain youthful skin.

Resources

• Whole Fitness - Healthy Skin
• Skin care: Top 5 habits for healthy skin
• How to Give Yourself a Facial Massage