Health + Wellness
Skincare Secrets: 7 Tips For Glowing Fresh Skin (+ That don’t cost the earth!)
December 24, 2016SKIN NEEDLING
This has helped me so much with spot scars on my face and body – even deep scars that generally take time to heal. I’ve seen the quickest results for healing spot scars by using this treatment. It works by rolling a derma roller with fine needles into your skin to cause minor injury which triggers your body’s natural defences to produce new cells, collagen, elastin. This results in a reduction of scars and firmer/smoother skin. For me, the scars almost begin to fade after one intensive use. It takes about 5 minutes and due to the intensity, I do this only once every other week. I follow up with my trusted Aloe Vera gel to heal and repair my skin.
Xcellent Global 3-in-1 Derma Roller Kit – (£13.99)
ALOE VERA GEL
I began to use Aloe Vera Gel on my face and body after seeing a victim of domestic abuse completely heal her horrific scars by solely using this gel. After trying out the product myself, I literally have backups stored of this gel in my house. It’s crazy that I’ve almost gone through 3 tubs of this stuff because I use it every night – face and body. And it works! It does wonder to heal scars, combat dryness and makes your skin smooth and radiant by the morning.
COCONUT OIL
Almost every night I dab a little bit of raw, organic coconut oil on my lashes to strengthen them and keep them moist. I love waking up with fluttery, long eyelashes – I honestly see the difference between the days that I keep to this ritual versus the days that I miss it. Also coconut oil is an amazing, multi tasking beauty product. You can use it as part of your homemade toothpaste, hair mask, the best makeup remover, body moisturiser and incredible for your health too!
RETINOL
If you’ve passed your twentieth birthday, now is the time to start using a retinol serum/eye cream. I’m a huge advocate for the saying ‘prevention is better than cure’. My friends can vouch that even in my late teens, I was singing praises to this statement. Retinol (vitamin A) is a must in your skincare regime. I’ll hand it over to Alicia Barba, a Miami-based dermatologist who puts it perfectly:
“It’s not that exciting, but retinoids are still the gold standard. They are the one thing that’s actually been proven to treat the skin, to build collagen, but also to reverse photoaging. Pick a mild, over-the-counter retinol product that is not irritating or too exfoliating and start using it every other night, and you can mix a little moisturizer with the retinol to make it more tolerable. The goal should be to start in your late 20s and get used to the effects so that you can work yourself up to prescription-strength retinol by your late 30s or 40s.”
ELECTRONIC BRUSH
Does anyone else feel amazing after thoroughly exfoliating their face? 😀 I highly recommend using any electronic brush on a weekly schedule to deeply exfoliate your skin. All the tight grip and massaging from your hands isn’t even close to the effectiveness of an electronic facial brush. Think about all the activities that you do on a daily basis that congest your skin – heat/smoke from cooking, sweating from the gym, toddler/child touching your face, humidity, accidentally touching your skin without clean hands – that’s why exfoliation is so important. Congested skin = blotchy, oily skin.
CHARCOAL MASK/SUPPLEMENTS/EVERYTHING
Charcoal has been a game changer for my skin and health. Ingesting charcoal supplements everyday after every meal has allowed my body to combat bloating and finally keep my stomach flat through out the day. (Yep, I’ve stocked up on those supplements too!) As a daily cleanser, I use a charcoal based scrub which is amazing! You know when you fall in love with a product and then vouch to never turn your back on it? Yep, it’s one of those products that you keep investing for life. I’ve noticed that the charcoal draws out oil, cleans out my pores and leaves my skin looking super fresh.
Bragg’s Charcoal Tablets 100 – (£11.80)
MASSAGE YOUR SKINCARE
Deeply massage your cleanser and exfoliator/scrub in to your skin and work along the contours of your face. Spend a minute or two massaging and working the product upwards into your skin. Never drag the skin downwards as you don’t want to cause premature wrinkles and sagging. This one tip alone leaves my skin looking glowy and dewy every morning. (Can you tell how much I love fresh, radiant skin?) This also helps with de-puffing your face and increases blood circulation – hello fresh, innocent, rosy looking skin!
my skin colour is light,I want it lighter and smooth with our blushing creams . Please help me.
Would you recommend anything for blackheads.
Iv tried clean and clear lotions, face washes and other pour strips.
Also what product would you recommend for a flat stomach, as mentioned above?
Thank you!
Try turmeric paste, it really helps. Mix it with milk (if you don’t have acne), or lemons (if you aren’t sensitive to it), Honey (if it doesn’t cause you breakout) or simply water. Apply the paste and scrub the area you wish you to remove blackheads from and leave it for around 15-20 minutes and then wash while scrubbing gently. It removes them and never lets them come back.
Thank you so much for sharing your tips! ????
Aww thank you in sha Aallah I will try!
For me personally charcoal tablets after each meal helped with keeping my stomach flat, especially as I used to experience a lot of bloating.
For blackheads, unfortunately I can’t recommend much as I’m not sure which products will help. If anyone else knows, please feel free to comment and share your beauty tips ?
Ok thank you !
LOVE LOVE LOVE this post! Aloe Vera Gel, Charcoal Mask and massage your skin especially upwards are all great tips and products. Thank you for sharing, skincare is KEY! (www.beautywithzainy.com and http://www.spicyfusionkitchen.com)
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I really want to try the derma roller again! I boughy one off ebay and it was pretty useless! Must invest in a better one!
It’s definitely worth a re-try of one with lots of reviews too inshaAllah x
The skin needling looks so cool but I would be too scared that it qould leave marks right after doing it.
It does make your skin a little red, but so long as you don’t over do it, inshaAllah shouldn’t leave any marks x
It’s always nice to fine natural clean products that don’t cost an arm and a leg lol! Thanks for sharing!
Hehehe thank you for reading. Not costing too much is something so important to me as I’ve played around with skincare for a long time – I’ve tested soo many products and even tried out hyped up treatments that won’t worth the cost x
Thanks for sharing. Clean healthy skin is always my main concern. I don’t wear a lot of makeup so I want my skin to look as fresh as possible and retinol is a great anti-aging product to use. thanks for the post.
Wow this list looks amazing. After giving birth my skin as just become really dry and rough. I definitely need to add some of your products to my list to help me get rid of the dryness.
Aloe vera and coconut oil does wonders for dryness. Let me know how it goes x
Woohoo I guess I should start taking care of my skin now because I don’t usually care this much.i just apply lotion & that is it.
But your blog has helped me alot.
Thanks for writing such great tips for all of us,you are an inspiration ❤
Awwwww thank you sweetheart, I’m soo happy it’s helped ? Have a wonderful day inshaAllah x
YAY! This is my first blog of yours I have read after your return. I love it. I am a sucker for anything skincare. I love your list, I use a lot of what you are using, which is good, lol, I know I am on the right track. But I will be added more into my skin routine now, after reading yours. Such as the Dermo roller, face brush and charcoal supplements.
Love Nasra x
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Awwwww thank you sweetie!!! I hope you love them as much as I do… they’re all such great staples in skincare. Let me know how it works out for you x
I’ve tried almost everything on this list and i must agree: retinol is definitely the gold standard. I love simplicity in every part of life including beauty regimens and retinol is one i live by. Great article!
Ahh great to hear! I’m so happy it’s working for you – retinol is game changing!
These are all great skin care solutions. I have heard of most but never of skin needling. It sounds interesting. I love coconut oil for my dry lips and hands. Also, my sister-in-law used the charcoal masks and she says it really leaves pores nice and open and clear. Thanks for sharing these!
Skin needling is really interesting, I highly recommend doing tons of research if you want to look into it. Thank you for reading, hope you enjoyed it x
I love coconut oil. I haven’t tried applying it to my lashes, sounds interesting. Thanks for sharing.
It makes your lashes long and smooth and all feathery 🙂