A bit behind on taking care of your skin? Here is a list of 12 simple tips for making your skin look and behave better in 2012.
- Nightly cleansing- even if you don’t use makeup, going to bed with an unwashed face simply pushes the environmental grime into your pores. (We all use and LOVE this brush. Cleans, exfoliates and perks up your skin like nothing else.)
Clarisonic Cleansing Brush
- Use a night cream/lotion and eye cream for your skin type. Fine lines and wrinkles don’t just “show up” one day – they build over time and a lack of moisture speeds up the process.
- Exfoliate weekly. Dead skin cells build up, even with proper cleansing, so a gentle exfoliating product helps skin stay smoother and clearer.
- Water – Drink lots. A liter of water upon rising helps your system flush toxins.
- Don’t use a deodorant bath bar on your face. Deodorant bars change the pH balance of your skin in a big way. Use a facial cleanser always.
- Wash your hands often to keep your face clearer. Surprised? Most of us touch our face dozens of times a day without giving thought to what germs we’ve picked up on our hands.(You’ll get fewer colds and flus too)
- Use a lip moisturizer – Carmex contains salicylic acid so it keeps dead skin soughed off. Nivea, Chapstick – pick something you like and use it daily.
- Figure sunscreen or sun block is as necessary as brushing your teeth. Remember that sunscreen takes 30 minutes to activate and sunblocks are instant.
- Try an RX retinoid cream like RetinA or similar for power results in skin cell turnover.
- Diet matters. Lots of sugar causes collagen breakdown.
- Alcohol and caffeine dehydrate the skin. Drink much of either and your skin pays.
- Salmon really does make your skin look better.
Dear Dr. Pilest,
Thank you so much for all the valuable information you send me each month. I would never consider cancelling your newsletter. In fact, I tell many clients to sign up for it, as it’s so educational.
All the the 12 tips you included this month are extremely valuable and I agree with them completely. I wanted to add one more way to prevent the damage you do to you face (skin and muscle) by sleeping on a regular pillow. Not only does the weight of your head breakdown the tiny facial muscles, but every time you move, you pull and stretch the skin, as well as press sleep wrinkles into it. As you know, and have mentioned in your comments that we use on our website,over the years, due to loss of skin elasticity, the sleep wrinkles become more permanent, and the Face-Saver pillow prevents this damage.
I have missed seeing you and your helpful staff, but am changing that in 2012. I desperately need to start getting Botox again on a regular basis. It not only makes me look much better, and feel younger and more confident, but it also is very helpful in improving my vision.
Thank you again for the great newsletter, and your past support for my Face-Saver Pillow. I truly appreciate it.
Best wishes for a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous 2012.
Thanks for the comments, Fawn. We miss you too and will be happy to see you!
For those of you who are curious about the Face Saver Pillow, check out the FaceSaver Pillow website and the science behind it.