Winterize Your Skin

With spring right around the corner, you may be getting a little anxious on getting your skin back to the radiant condition you prefer.  I have compiled a few tips together to help you get started on improving your skin, while it’s still a little chilly out. If you follow these simple, easy steps to keep your skin up to its tiptop shape, you and your skin will be ready to strut your stuff for the upcoming season!

You should always remember to hydrate yourself from the outside, in. Although you may think your skin is completely hydrated, sometimes keeping our skin hydrated is often looked over. Use a daily moisturizer such as Vaseline Cocoa Butter Lotion  on your skin along with your daily skincare routine whenever you get out of the shower. This way you are helping to hydrate your skin and giving it the extra touch of moisturizer it may need.

Another important way to hydrate your skin is by drinking lots and lots of water! Water is the most purifying thing you can give to your skin to make it look its healthiest. By drinking water, not only are you hydrating your skin, you are also helping to wash out all the toxins your body may have consumed over this chilly winter season. Your skin will thank you for this.

To really enhance your moisturizing routine to get the best results, use a gentle exfoliator to scrape off all the dead skin cells from head to toe. If you are into DIY remedies, try this little concoction as your exfoliator, it works amazingly!

 What you will need is:

• A large bowl
• 1 2/3 cups of salt or sugar
• 1/2 cup of olive oil
• 3 tablespoons of lemon or lime juice

For your lips, use a lip exfoliator to get those smooth, plump lips you have always wanted. By doing this, you will be removing the dead skin cells that have built up from dry skin and the biggest no no of all, licking your lips. Avoid licking your lips at all cost! You will just make your lips more chapped in the long run.  Instead use your favorite lip moisturizer, mine being Burt's Bees Lip Shimmer. If you want to go the more natural route for your lip exfoliator try this DIY remedy:

·         1 teaspoon of white sugar

·         A few drops of olive oil

·         Mix, scrub, exfoliate, enjoy!

Good luck and happy winterizing. See you in spring!