Learn how to keep yourself cool during hot summer days

Learn how to keep yourself cool during hot summer days. Summer time is the best time of the month to show off your skin, especially your face.But if you don’t take some simple and effective organic skin care precautions it can be dangerous to your skin if you are not 100% prepared.

Practicing the right face care is important because the skin of the face is more sensitive - Heat, dust, hot wind and excessive sun exposure can badly affect good skin by damaging its delicate cells and pores. We have to be more careful while choosing make-up, soaps, creams, moisturizers and sprays in summer more than any other season, because of the reaction the sun can create if we bombard our face with nasty chemicals. Even the food we take plays an important role in skin care. Drinking more water, even if you are not thirsty is important to to allow the body and in particular the organs full efficiency and health maintenance, just by protecting the body from dehydration.

An important face care tip is to never go to bed with make-up, especially during summer. Undertake proper facial cleansing before going to sleep. Try to use natural beauty products to keep your good skin more fresh and healthy, not just in its appearance. You can even try homemade beauty enhancers for face care such as a mixture of honey and sugar. Using a scrub made of equal amounts of honey and corn flour, once a week is helpful to attain good skin. Pampering the skin after a shower with a combination of a couple of drops each of rose, lavender and almond oil can be a wonderful feeling as well as truly useful protection for the skin. A mixture of 4 table spoons of ripe papaya pulp, a squeeze of lemon juice and ½ tsp honey can be used as a refreshing cleanser.

It is highly recommended that anyone wanting to achieve, maintain and perfect skin, washes their face 3-4 times a day with cold water during the summer. And always remember to limit your exposure to direct sunlight when the sun is at the highest. And if you can’t avoid going out at the hottest hours of the day be sure to use sunglasses to cover your eyes and a wide-brimmed hat to keep your face under shade.

Food habits can also help towards providing good skin to a large extent, so eating as many raw foods including fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds is beneficial to maintaining quality skin. Also be sure to avoid alcohol and caffeinated drinks as well as smoking. They can damage not only your health but your beauty too. If possible, avoid oily and spicy food in the summer months. You can even prepare some energy drinks like lemon, ginger and mint leaf mix or tomato, ginger and salt mix at home. But it is better to avoid food items prepared with spinach, garlic, radish, pineapple, beetroot etc.

Also try to lessen the intake of eggs and meat which are not very easy to digest and can create a digestion problem especially during summer season. It’s a fact that exposure to sunlight can provide natural vitamin D to your skin, one of the most important fat-soluble vitamins. Dependent on the temperature and what you are used to, choose the early morning or evening sun for tanning and take proper skin and face care as well as eat healthy food. That way, you can be in love with your skin, your sun and enjoy the season to its full…