A Guide To Helping You Achieve Deeply & Well-Hydrated Skin
Does your skin still feel dehydrated, no matter how much water you consume? Achieving a deeply and well-hydrated skin involves more than applying moisturising products and drinking lots of water.
Dehydration vs dryness
The hydration level of your skin indicates the amount of water content in it. You must know that it also is vastly different from lipid content. Hence, there is a difference between hydrating and moisturising products. Dehydrated skin means that your skin lacks sufficient water; hence using hydrating products helps to replenish the lack of water.
On the other hand, dry skin means that your skin lacks sufficient lipid content; hence using moisturising products helps restore the lipid layer, which in turn helps to lock the moisture within our skin. Therefore, you could say that dry skin leads to dehydrated skin.
Causes of dehydrated skin
There are a couple of factors that result in dehydrated skin. One of which is not consuming a sufficient amount of water throughout the day. Other contributing factors could be exposure to UV rays, perspiration caused by exercise or heat, or not using moisturising products. Additionally, spending an extended period in air-conditioned rooms or dry climates can also lead to dehydrated skin.
How to prevent dehydrated skin?
Besides external causes, sometimes dehydrated skin is a sign of complex internal causes, such as consumption of specific medications, nutritional imbalance, heart conditions, and digestive dysfunction. You might want to consider visiting a doctor should signs of those conditions surface. However, in general cases, there are a couple of straightforward steps you can adopt in your daily life to prevent dehydrated skin.
1. Consume a sufficient amount of water
It is recommended that that we drink at least eight cups of water daily, bringing it to a minimum of 2 litres of water each day. This recommended amount should be supplemented on top of consuming caffeine and alcohol, especially after exercising, perspiring, or falling ill.
2. Incorporate humectant ingredients into your skincare routine
Humectants are hygroscopic, also known as water-absorbing substances that are used to keep things, in this case, our skin, moist longer. Examples of humectants are urea, glycerin, lactic acid, and hyaluronic acid. Hence, when purchasing hydrating products, you might also want to look out for such ingredients.
Some products that we offer are Bodyfarm Facial Cleansing Milk, which contains glycerin and urea to keep your skin hydrated, cool, and clean while offering antioxidant and other nourishing properties, as well as our 3 flagship facial clay masks: Bodyfarm Age Defying Greek Yoghurt Face Mask, Santorini Grape Mask and Donkey Milk Mask. Just put up these clay masks for 10 minutes, rinse off and feel the dewiness in your skin. These facial masks contain hyaluronic acid and glycerin to increase moisture levels in your skin while providing anti-wrinkle properties and removal of black spots.
3. Seal in moisture with moisturising products
Moisturising products help to prevent transepidermal water loss, keeping your skin hydrated for an extended period.
4. Do not go out without putting on sunscreen
Prolonged exposure to the sun’s harmful UV rays can easily deplete our skin’s hydration level. This includes UV light that can penetrate through windows and blue light emitted by computer screens and phones. Using sunscreen products, such as our Wotnot Naturals Sunscreen. Our sunscreen is Australian-made of organic clean ingredients and tested safe for pregnant and breastfeeding mothers. Using our sunscreen not only protects you from getting sunburn as well as UV damage, but it also contains premium natural ingredients such as beeswax and candelilla wax that help lock in essential moisture, as well as aloe vera leaf juice which is a natural humectant that helps your skin absorb moisture from surrounding air or deeper layers of your skin. It is, indeed, all-in-one skin protection.
5. Seek support when necessary
As mentioned earlier, your dehydrated skin might be caused by medication, dietary, or hormonal factors. Hence, whenever in doubt, always seek professional advice and support from a doctor.
Conclusion
With a little bit of effort and help, you can easily rectify the issue. Most importantly, we need to care for our skin adequately. This means having a healthy skincare routine that involves hydrating and moisturising our skin. We have the perfect solution for you. If you are looking for organic skincare products that are specifically tailored to be good for the skin and the environment, then visit us at https://www.lovenaturall.com/ to find out more about our extensive product range today!