Natural night time skin care

When we think of Natural Skin Care we often think about what products to use. At Jackson & Hines we sell Dr. Hauschka skin care and it is a wonderful product. But to me natural skin care is so much more than just the products we use. Natural skin care must include; what we eat, our water intake, how we manage stress, our physical activities and how we care for our skin following how our skin is “naturally” designed. When I started using the Dr. Hauschka line one of the very first changes I had to make was to stop moisturizing at night time. This was major change for me. For my entire life I have moisturized at night time. I sometimes think that my beginning life cycles were –being nursed, potty trained and then moisturizers. How many jars of Ponds cold cream were in our cabinets at home? As I grew the moisturizers became more sophisticated, more intriguing and most definitely more expensive. Those ads told me that while I slept these magic potent would transform my blemished, aging, dry skin into skin directly emerging from the fountain of youth. So I lathered it on! I bought more, different brands, higher priced while completely forgetting what I studied in school about our skin and completely ignoring common sense. While we sleep all of our organs are rejuvenating – getting ready for the next day. At night time our skin is trying to rejuvenate itself. Dead cells are sloughed off, waste and toxins from our systems are being eliminated and the skin is trying to heal itself. While we sleep the skin is producing the right amount of oils to moisturize itself. When we add additional moisturizers (oil based) we are confusing our skin - sending the wrong signals and telling our skin to not naturally produce its own moisturizers or to over produce. When we moisture at night we are trying to combat the aging process, but instead we could be causing our skin to lose its elasticity and potentially increasing more lines and wrinkles.

Since I have stopped moisturizing at night my skin looks smoother, has a healthy glow and interestingly, I am using less moisturizers in the morning. At first it was difficult. The first few nights my skin felt very dry as I fell asleep. I did use the Dr. Hauschka Rhythmic Night Conditioner and this product did help me transition very rapidly. My skin loved this night conditioner – thought I was kissed by an angel during the night. This conditioner is a water based product that is full of natural ingredients such as royal jelly, white hazel and much more. After 28 days on the conditioner I use toner only after cleansing.

So tonight drink some water, wash and tone your face, go bed and let your skin get some real beauty rest.