30 Days to Great Skin

Blotchy, dull, listless, craggy, aging, blemished …

Do any of those adjectives describe your skin? Does your skin just not quite have that youthful glow it used to? Maybe you have a few too many blemishes and you are afraid to go outside of the house without your cover-up.

Well hopefully after you finish reading this article you will have the knowledge and the tools to free you from your listless skin and allow you to put that cover-up away.

The first thing that you need to do is reassess your eating habits. You know that old saying ‘you are what you eat?’ Well it’s kind of true. What you eat has a dramatic impact upon your overall body functioning – if you are taking in a lot of acidic and salty foods chances are you are damaging your skin. If you are not getting the right kinds and amounts of minerals and vitamins you are definitely doing more harm to your skin than good. Taking multi-vitamins and other supplements is a good way to get started, but our bodies flush out the majority of vitamins taken this way.

Nothing can replace good old fashioned home cooked meals. Raw veggies and fruits will do your body much more good than any multi-vitamin ever will. If you are having problems with your skin increase your consumption of Folic acid (spinach is a great source for this) and omega acids (salmon and tuna are loaded with omega-6). Increasing your consumption of these two types of food alone will have a dramatic impact upon your skin quality in 30 days or less.

This next tip is going to surprise some people. If you want better skin get out in the sun, or spend some time in a tanning salon! The sun has gotten a bad rap over the past decade or so, some of it is justified, but the anti-sun crusade has gone way too far. The sun is not your enemy. There is a reason why most plants need to bathe in the sun to survive. Those sun rays are life giving! If you have skin problems there is a very good chance you have a vitamin D deficiency. Do you know what the greatest source of vitamin D is?

You guessed it: The sun.

The trick here is to not over-expose yourself to the sun. When you go out and sun bathe put on a good lotion that will help you absorb the good benefits of the sun while blocking out some of the damaging UV rays and helping your skin re-nourish itself with vitamins and moisture that gets depleted by sun exposure. Any good tanning salon will sell lotions that are designed for this, yes they are a little bit on the expensive side, but they are well worth the price and should last for a longtime (unless you are tanning every day which would be way too much!)

With these two tips alone – Changing your diet and increasing your exposure to the positive benefits of the sun, you will rejuvenate your skin and look 10 years younger in just a handful of weeks.