These Anti-Aging Tips are the Best For Healthy Skin
While it might be nice to shed your layers and soak up the sun, those hot summer months aren’t a vacation for your skin. The dry air sucks moisture out of your skin, while the sun’s UV rays speed up pigmentation, causing blotchiness.
Enough is enough! Here are five of the best anti-aging tips to help you achieve healthy, beautiful skin this summer.
1. Apply a hydrating night cream-mask combo
If you’re not giving your skin enough hydration while you sleep, it’ll show in the form of accentuated lines and wrinkles. Although you might be using a night cream (it’s essential!), it might not be doing enough to lock in moisture.
Instead of a regular cream, you should choose a moisturizer that offers the hydration of a face mask so you wake up with glowing skin.
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A great pick is Versed Sweet Relief Night Mask + Face Balm. It’s a moisturizer and mask product in one that feels like body butter for your face. It’s enriched with kokum butter and antioxidants to lock in moisture.
Another product to try is Charlotte Tilbury’s Magic Night Cream, with Vitamin E and plant stem cells to boost your skin’s elasticity. It also contains retinol to stimulate collagen production so your skin is tighter and smoother. It’s infused with the scent of jasmine that makes it feel like a nourishing balm.
2. Start “double cleansing”
A tried-and-tested skincare step is double cleansing, which is when you wash your face twice to keep it squeaky clean. While it might seem like overkill, it’s important to eliminate all traces of makeup and impurities. Double cleansing removes bacteria, prevents acne, and gives your skin a youthful glow by promoting cell turnover.
To do it correctly, you have to use an oil-based cleanser to remove dirt, sunscreen, and makeup, followed by a water-based cleanser that can be in a foam or gel consistency.
Here are some options!
- A good oil-based cleanser is Good Janes Say Goodnight Cleansing Balm that contains ingredients such as sweet almond and argan oils to brighten and nourish skin.
- For a water-based cleanser, try La Roche-Posay Toleriane Purifying Foaming Cleanser. It doesn’t contain any fragrance or sulfates, so it’s gentle on your skin. Packed with prebiotic thermal water and ceramide-3, it maintains the skin’s pH and hydration.
3. Banish dark spots with niacinamide
Removing pigmentation and dark spots is a big skincare trend this year. A common issue with eliminating pigmentation is that it can feel overwhelming to know what products to use, so skincare collections are being developed to create clearer skin in a flash.
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An example is the L’Oreal Paris Bright Reveal line, which contains a serum, day cream with SPF, and an exfoliant peel. This collection uses an essential ingredient to clear up dark spots: niacinamide, a type of Vitamin B3 that protects skin cells from UV damage and lightens dark spots. Research (via Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology) has found that niacinamide is also useful for eliminating acne.
When treating pigmentation, make sure you wear a broad-spectrum sunscreen of at least 50 SPF, even on overcast days. UV rays accelerate pigmentation, so they’ll darken your spots.
4. Boost your skin barrier
One of 2024’s anti-aging, educational trends is improving the health of your skin barrier, the outer layer of skin that blocks toxins and pollution while maintaining moisture.
Skin barrier damage can occur from factors such as UV exposure, pollution, low humidity, aging, and skincare products that strip the skin’s natural moisture.
These ingredients are key
To repair your skin’s barrier, there are some important ingredients to look for in anti-aging products. These include:
- Humectants, like hyaluronic acid, which draw moisture to the skin so that its deeper layers remain hydrated.
- Ceramides that lock in moisture while restoring the skin’s fat content for a supple complexion.
- Vitamin C, an antioxidant that not only brightens the complexion but fights free radicals.
5. Use a sunscreen lip treatment
While you lather sunscreen all over your face, you might forget about giving your lips some love. Over time, the harsh UV rays can cause chapped or discolored lips. Luckily, beauty brands offer lip sunscreen that protects your lips from UV exposure while making them feel nourished.
Our favourite?
Try Tatcha The Kissu Lip Tint. It’s hydrating and creamy, filled with nourishing ingredients such as botanical lanolin. Forget the idea of lip SPF looking like chapstick. This one resembles a lipstick and comes in three buildable colours: pink, berry, and red. It also has SPF to protect your lips from the sun while you enjoy those glorious rays!
