If you have acne, summer might not be your favourite time of year. Heat, humidity and sweat can wreak havoc on your skin.
But a few simple tweaks to your daily skincare routine can stop the warmer weather from exacerbating your acne.
If you’re a skincare hoarder, now is a great time to channel your inner Marie Kondo and clean out your skincare stash. Not only will it leave you with more space in your bathroom cabinet, but it will also reinvigorate your skincare routine for healthy, glowing skin.
If you get the recommended 8 hours of sleep per night, by the time you are 80 years old, you will have slept for 26 years of your life. That’s a long time to be tossing and turning if your sleep isn’t the best that it can be.
When I write or talk to people about their skin, the subject of gut health always comes up. That’s because there is an increasing number of scientific studies linking our skin’s health to the health of our gut.
Kale is the trendiest member of the cabbage family and the healthy foodie’s favourite, with good reason. It’s packed full of skin-benefitting vitamins, minerals and antioxidants.
Kale is high in vitamin C, an antioxidant needed to make collagen, the protein that gives our skin its structure and stretch. The amount of collagen our body produces declines as we age, so it’s a good idea to keep our diet topped up with foods that support collagen production.
Eczema is, unfortunately, one of those conditions that there’s no cure for. It’s absolutely possible to get to the position where your skin is completely clear. But, if the circumstances are right, you might experience an eczema flare-up at some point.
There are things you can do to stop a flare-up in its tracks and reduce its severity. Here’s what works for me.
The number one mistake I see people making with their skincare is using only products designed for acne-prone skin. These products are targeting only your skin condition and neglecting the needs of your skin type.
I’ll let you into a little secret – I’ve written a few books in my time. All of them have been fiction. In the middle of preparing one of those books for publication, I completely altered course and started writing Eating Habits for Healthy Skin. I had an 80,000-word novel almost ready to go but I side-lined it to start another book with a word count, at the time, of zero.