How to Maintain Healthy Skin by Showering

By John Howarth

Everyday, you engage in a beauty schedule that includes taking a bath, shampooing your hair, drying your hair, shaving, and trimming your nails. For most people, hygiene and personal grooming are good routines they consistently practice. If you could change one thing about your individual hygiene and grooming regime that would help you to be more attractive and healthy, would you do it?

Most adults whom are over thirty commit one big mistake when it comes to washing: They do too much of it. Many adults take a shower before work, after going to the gym, and sometimes before going to sleep as well. Twelve minutes in the shower is too long for your and can damage the skin. Ideally this should be reduced to around five minutes.

Bathing too often can result in removing much of your skin's natural oil, causing it to become irritated; this is particularly common during the winter and for people who don't have a water filter in the shower. This is because exposing yourself to too much continuous water flow results in a lot of unnecessary chlorine residue on your skin.

Beneath are some tips about bathing that can help your skin:

1. Steer clear of using a washcloth on fragile areas, particularly the mucous membranes. Instead try using soft sponges or loofahs in a rounded motion along your skin, using glycerine type soaps.

2. The temperature of the water should be luke warm, and ideally cooler water is better for your skin.

3. If you have normal to dry skin, use fragrance-free or sensitive skin soap on your body and either a soap free cleanser or nothing at all on mucous membranes.

4. Glycerin soap is best for those with oily skin. Personally, this type of soap works for me since it removes simply the right amount of oil to maintain my skin from drying out.

5. Refrain from showering excessively. While this may seem like a particularly odd thing to do, if you can extended your time between showers, it will help preserve your skin. Skipping a shower for a whole day about once or twice a week, particularly in the winter allows your skin to produce and keep its natural oils.

6. Use shampoos that are comprised of natural extracts. The vast majority of hair care products contain dangerous chemicals such as synthetics, petrochemicals, dyes and coloring. All of those things are harmful to the human body.

By re-examining your hygiene and shower routines can genuinely help your skin by lowering your shower time, using water filters, gently massaging your skin in a rounded pattern with a soft sponge, and using skin and hair care products which contain natural products. - 29882

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