A wellness plan for your skin can easily be integrated into your daily routine. The skin is the largest eliminative organ so whatever is going on inside of your body and other organs is going to come out through the skin.
Begin your day drinking 20 oz of spring water or purified water which starts the hydration process for all the cells of your body. Don’t drink coffee yet, or green drink. No supplements. Those choices will bring the body into the process of digestion. You want to start your day with hydration. Start with 8 to 10 oz. Drink it down. Slowly increase the amount as you go along in a couple of weeks. I now drink about 20 to 24 oz. first thing when I wake up.
Next, cool water on the face then splash argan milk on your skin followed by a combination oil of equal parts argan oil, rosehip seed oil and helichrysum oil. This will feed and nutrify your hydrated skin.
Go for a morning walk, write, meditate for 20 to 30 minutes. Now is the time for your morning beverage, coffee or tea.
Supplies for healthy skin shower:
Dry skin brush, body wash, apricot kernel oil, shea butter. Dry wash cloth.
When taking a shower begin with dry skin brushing. BEFORE you get into the shower. Slowly brush your skin with a natural bristle skin brush. Use long circular movements at your fingers and hands and move up towards the heart. Go to the feet and work your way up the legs, always move towards the heart. Be gentle if you are not used to it. Move the dry brush over your torso, front and back, hips and buttocks.
Now jump in the shower and always use a body wash with quality ingredients. Never use harsh soap that will strip the body of its natural protective mantle. Rinse. Turn the shower off and while the skin is still wet, apply a small amount of apricot kernel oil on the dry washcloth and rub it into the skin while the pores are still wide open. Practice the same sequence of hands up the arms to the heart, legs up towards the heart and finish applying oil on the torso and back. You may need to reapply the apricot kernel oil a couple of times as your skin drinks it up. You won’t even need to towel dry off as most of the water from the shower will be wiped off from the oiled- up washcloth.
When you get out of the shower step into a pair of flip flops. Balance on one leg and apply shea butter to your heels and bottoms of the feet. Keep this pair of flip flops just for shea butter wearing after the shower.
On a Personal note:
I learned this technique at a yoga retreat in the 1980’s. Dry skin brushes can be found online or at most health food stores. Yogis keep their skin healthy and glowing for better over- all health of their organs. Most use sesame oil. I prefer organic apricot kernel oil because it is so light and scentless.
I discovered if you apply the oil while the skin is still damp with a dry washcloth it soaks right in.
I use a body butter afterwards, especially during the winter. It will seal in the nutritious oil. Remember, you are “feeding” the skin, just like you feed the rest of yourself.
I buy a whole stack of wash cloths at some discount place and only use them for the shower. Use them just one time each shower. Once I have used of them all up, I wash them together in the laundry, but I don’t wash anything else with them, just the oily washcloths. You can use them for several weeks until they’ve had their day and you must throw them away. Buy cheap Cotton washcloths.
Everything else, I buy the best oils, body butters and lotions with quality ingredients. You will see. It will pay off. The products I use are not as expensive as the department stores. They have pure ingredients. Never ever put mineral oil on the skin. I have been reading ingredients of products for 40 years. So, you don’t want to put a petroleum product that will smother the skin. It can’t breathe. You want to nutrify and protect the skin. It’s your first line of defense from the outside world.