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Does Good Skincare Cost a Fortune?
If you were to listen to the commercials on TV, and believe all you read in women’s magazines about spa treatments being carried out in luxurious surroundings, and see advertisements for top brand skincare manufacturers’ newest lines, then you could be forgiven for believing that it does cost a fortune to have great skin. But the reality is that this marketing is nothing more than hype that’s so convincing women in their millions worldwide believe that in order to have flawless skin, they must spend a lot of money buying the right products to care for their skin correctly. The reality is – the real cost involved with great looking skin is in knowledge and effort, not money.
You could pay thousands of pounds, dollars, yen for the top products and treatments available throughout the world, but unless you know how to apply them, and how often, then you aren’t guaranteed good skin. You could attend the top spa that all the celebs are talking about, but if your life> You have to be willing to invest more into your skincare than cash!
First of all you need to adjust your life> Great looking skin is hydrated, so you must commit to drinking the required healthy amount of water per day (approx 6-8 8oz glasses). You also need to ensure that you don’t smoke, or work/live in a climate controlled environment that dries out your skin – if you do, and you can’t change the situation, then you need to use a thick moisturizer to prevent the moisture from evaporating through your pores. Sunshine will also dehydrate your skin so ensure that whatever moisturizer and make-up you use has some SFP above 15 to stop this from encouraging the wrinkles that appear when your skin is dehydrated.
Next you must have a good positive skincare attitude so that you make it a daily priority – even if you have to get up 5 minutes earlier and go to bed 10 minutes before you normally would in order to ensure you do it right. Never go to bed with your make-up on. Ever! Make sure you clean it completely off, and then cleanse tone and moisturize your skin with products that are suitable for your skin type (if you’re not sure, have it checked out at one of the counters in your local department store). When you awake in the morning, you should gently cleanse and tone again, and then use a good moisturizer as a base for your make-up.
So rather than sigh and think how great your skin would look if you could just buy those fancy packaged products in the store, think about it – it’s the packaging that’s expensive, without the effort the product still won’t be effective! Get real about your skincare and take responsibility for giving yourself a healthy glow – buy the products that best compliment your skin type and commit to using them daily.
The submitter of this article is Molly Thomas, she is also a author on UK property market blog and Rafaelmeavitali. Molly is fast becoming an authority on overseas property for sale. Read her blog here.