Augh! It’s almost spring but that beautiful season weather is being drowned in itchy, dry, scaly, cracked skin. What do you need to do to help your skin be as young-looking as the flowers that will soon be blooming?
First, you need to look at why your skin could be dry. Dry skin hardly happens in a vacuum. It is virtually always the result of starvation, digestive or liver issues, prescription drug side effects, or bad product regimens. If your skin gets dry in the winter then you need to start drinking more water, taking a liquid nutritional supplement or eating fresh juiced fruits and vegetables, and doing Liver Cleanse.
Causes of Dry Skin:
- First, you have the obvious cold, dry, winter wind or dry indoor air that comes from keeping it warm inside (or cool in the summer). A humidifier can often help even this out. Essentially, adding some moisture to the air in the winter will make it feel warmer inside.
- If you get those nasty cracked heels and you don’t know that that is not necessarily a sign of dry skin (it is augmented by it, but not due to dehydration). It is a sign of systemic candida!
Hydrate Your Skin
Drink plenty of water at least 64 ounces a day that’s water, not some other liquid. Feel free to add a drop of Be Young Orange essential oil to your water, it encourages your cells to use the water and rehydrate.
Consume plenty of EFA’s (Essential Fatty Acids–those Omega 3’s). You can purchase a supplement (keep them in the freezer, then when you take them you don’t tend to burp fish oil as much); you can eat yummy omega 3 foods like salmon, spinach, broccoli, flax, and walnuts. Basically nuts and plants have them, with the highest levels being found in fish and fish oils.
Eat good foods, you have heard it before–fruits and vegetables are your friends–juice a bunch and drink them up!
Moisturize your skin with cocoa butter or grapeseed oil. Avocado oil or primrose oil are some other good options. Avoid petroleum-based moisturizers, harsh exfoliants (a gentle cleanser is fine, watch out for those that make you feel like you have no skin left), perfumes and perfumed products as they will strip moisture from the skin. They use alcohol as a stabilizer. Use an important oil as a perfume and you will be providing health along with a pleasing scent.
Consume a good liquid nutritional supplement with lots of antioxidants and vitamins in it. (Vitamin C, E, K, and A as beta-carotene are especially good).
Essential Oils For the Skin
- Basil (dry skin)
- Birch (flaky skin)
- Black Cumin (dry, chapped skin)
- Chamomile (marvelous for all skin problems)
- Eucalyptus (chapped skin)
Remember, the skin shows us what’s going on inside the body. If giving yourself a little extra loving care doesn’t quickly start showing through soft, supple skin you need to look a little harder at yourself to see the underlying cause. Our bodies are trying to communicate to us each and every day what we need; we want to listen while things are simple and easy to deal with. We don’t want to wait until our body is screaming diseases at us in order to get our attention.
