A detox won't just make you feel good on the inside, it will make you look great on the outside. A healthy diet, strong on antioxidants and vitamins, works better than the most expensive skin cream on your complexion, better thann any of those much-hyped, highly expensive cellulite pills on those areas where you've noticed a little sag or two, and much better than aven a three week break at the most exclusive health farm in the world on your overall glow and poise. And you want to help things along, now don't you? Which is where dry-brushing, exfolliants and massages come into it. Missing these elements out won't sabotage your detox but including them will enable you to achieve maximum results.
Firstly You must regular in your habits. Scrubbing your face vigorously every once in a while will only upset its natural balance of oils and leave you with spots and dry patches. Far better to gently cleanse once a day and exfoliate twice a week in the bath, where the hot water 💦 will open your pores.
These are the suggestions to help 😃 you establish a series of daily and weekly beauty routines to suit yourself:
Hair and Scalp:
Trichologist can look at your hair and work out exactly what's going on inside. If its dull, brittle or prone to falling out, it means you are functioning below par.your detox will go along way to remedying that.
To give your scalp a boost, try performing this very basic yoga exercise every morning. Standing withyour feet shoulders width apart and your legs straight (but not locked at the knees),raise your arms above your head with your fingers outstretched. Now slowly bend at the hips- which are the top of your legs, not at your waist, as we so often tend to think- keeping your arms straight, until your fingers touch your chins. You may even be able to touch the floor. Breathing slowly and deeply, hold for a count of ten, then straighten up slowly. Repeat once more. This exercise causes the blood to flow towards your head, stimulating your scalp and promoting healthier, stronger hair growth.
Another way to give your scalp a little great is to always give your hair a final rinse with cold water. Think also closes the shafts of the hair, giving it a glossier look-ideal if you suffer from split ends. For added shine, cold rosemary tea used as a final rinse gives even the dullest hair a healthy sheen.
Face:
Oceans of moisturizer won't do for your face what a little regular home 🏡 massage will do. In truth, the skin can absorb very little of what we slather onto it on a daily basis- the real moisture must come from within. To ensure this happens, you must keep your circulation in good condition, and gentle massage can help.
Do this when you are cleansing your face at night. Having applied cleanser, line up your fingertips and gently press the skin of your forehead, working your way down to your eyebrows. Press down for around three to five seconds and then relax 🙂 and move down. When you reach your eye area, where the skin is very delicate, gently circle the eye sockets with your finger tips being careful not to drag the skin. Do this five times one way and five times the other, every single day. This is great technique for combating and preventing bags under the eyes.
Now move to the cheeks, massaging the skin lighly with the fingertips in an outwards motion from the sides of the nose.
Continue down to the sides of the mouth, finally finishing by pressing along the skin of the jawbone.
Now that it's throughly rubbed in, remove your cleanser by applying a face cloth dipped in warm water 💦. This gently 😃 open your pores and helps extract residual grime and make-up.
Then splash your face several times with cold water till you feel your skin tightening bup as the pores close again. This action also stimulates the skin, giving the circulation an extra boost.
Exfoliation is essential as it removes dead skin cells, leaving your complexion fresher and smoother. Choose a gentle facial scrub and use it regularly 😉 ideally twice a week.
Face mask which double up as exfoliators are increasingly popular and a great idea as the mask draws out excess oils and accumulated dirt which can be then sloughed away along with the dead skin cells at the end.
Body:
As you detox you will notice that the skin all over your body becomes softer of its own accord. This is because a healthy detox diet prevents your system becoming congested, a condition manifested in rough skin and poor circulation.
To maximize this, get into the habit of exfoliating the skin on your body on a regular basis. Some enthusiasts advocate daily skin scrubs but twice a week, so long as you keep at it, will do just as well.
Prior to a bath or shower , brush your skin in long sweeping motions, beginning with the soles of your feet and working up your shins, thighs, bottom and stomach, always working towards the heart. Don't forget arms and shoulders too, again working towards the heart.
After your shower, apply a body moisturizer all over, paying particular attention to elbows, knees and ankles, where the skin is driest. The act of massaging in the moisturizer is great for boosting your circulation,so take your time and do it properly.
Blissful bathtimes:
Bathtime shouldn't ba all work. There are many detox bath preparations on the market, mostly involving seaweed extract and designed to draw out poisons from the body. And they generally work, if only because the natural action of hot water 💦 and steam on the body does the job quite naturally.
Be careful not to make the water too hot, as this will dehydrate you unnecessarily. Aim for body temperature. For maximum efficacy, do a series of deep breathing exercises while you are in your bath.
In fact, most of us breathe very shallowly, which means that we are not using our lungs to their full capacity and failing to inhale sufficient quantities of oxygen to keep our blood levels topped up. The result is a poor circulation, often manifesting itself as cold feet and hands, and poor skin tone. Take a deep, deep breath now,so deep that the area beneath your ribcage expands, and feel how that inhalation affects your whole body, right down to your toes. If you feel yourself tingling, that's good its a sign that your circulation has been given a little oxygen boost.
The reason we breathe so shallowly is down to the way we live. When were stressed, we breathe in short, shallow gasps and the habit spills over into non- stressed times. What makes us sigh at such times is a trigger from the body to make us take in more air.
When you are breathing deeply it is the area below your ribcage - the diaphragm- which should rise not your chest. While lying in the bath 🛀,rest your hand on your diaphragm and practice breathing so that you can feel that area rising and falling with every breath.
Do ten breaths in all. Not only will ensure that you inhale all the lovely scents from your detox bath, it will speed up the elimination of toxins and slow down your heart rate. Which means that afterwards 😃, you can look forward to a long, restful sleep.
And So to Bed:
Sleep is the best health and beauty 💕 treatment money 💰 can't buy and if you don't get enough of it, you'll age rapidly, your immune system will go downhill, your concentration and memory will be impaired and you will feel awful. convinced?
The best kind of the sleep is the regular kind, be it eight or ten hours a night, so long as you retire and rise at approximately - that is, within a margin of 15 minutes - the same time every single day.
Sleep is essential for good health, particularly when you are subjecting yourself to a detox, because it is the one time when the body can attend to essential maintenance. This is when your cells are regenerated and tissues are repaired and qhy, following an accidents or illness, your body craves hours and hours of extra sleep. The regulation of your sleeping hours should iron out most sleep problems ,but if you are still having trouble nodding off,here are a few tips:
Sleep in the DaRk:
Your body is very light sensitive. It's a primordial sense, designed to make the human organism maximize its exposure to daylight and it means that, when there is light, the body thinks it should be waking up.
Keep the bedroom uncluttered the reasoning being that, if a room is busy your mind will stay busy too. So give the room you sleep in a good clear out, pare down the pictures and turn the bed 🛌 so that you don't look thnrough the door if possible- the outside world, even your humble hallway, will distract you from your slumbers.
Have a bath :
When you emerge from a warm bath your body mimics exactly what it does when it goes to sleep. It cools down and the heart rate reduces. Have one just before bed 🛌 and you're already on the path to sleep.Note: a hot bath will only make you more restless.
Exercise 💪:
Don't exercise vigorously within two hours of trying to go to sleep, Though a gentle night - time walk will help to soothe your nerves. Exercising earlier in the day will help you sleep, as it de-stress you.
Sleep on your left hand side:
This way the intestines are in the best position to do their work. Lying on your side with your head supported is the best position for your spine as lying on your front or back accentuates the S- curve unnaturally often causing backache.
Enjoy your life daily best.
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Stay blessed 💞