Natural Skin Care Tips and the Mayo Clinic
By the Editor | June 26, 2010
The Mayo Clinic provides the following natural skin care tips for avoiding wrinkles and other signs of aging. Protect your skin from the sun. Use moisturizers and don’t smoke. They also provide one that is not so natural. They suggest that you choose skincare products with “built-in” sunscreen. I don’t agree with that recommendation.
I have nothing against the Mayo Clinic. They provide a great deal of helpful information. But, there are many problems with their sunscreen advice.
Many researchers agree that the benefit of including sunscreens in most skincare products is questionable. The combination of different ones included in different products could be dangerous. No one knows how the sunscreen chemicals interact.
Your day cream and your foundation might contain the chemicals. Even you night cream and your cleanser might contain them.
The only naturally occurring completely safe sunscreen ingredient is zinc oxide. It is found in some of the better mineral-based foundations, but it is not included in other skincare products, because it does not disappear. That’s one of the reasons it protects against sunburn.
So, my natural skin care tips include the use of a zinc oxide sun block, when you expect to spend a great deal of time in the sun.
If you wear makeup, you can choose a foundation that contains zinc oxide to use on your face. But, you should allow your arms and legs to be exposed to sunlight at regular intervals. Without sunlight, your body cannot produce vitamin D.
Research has shown that vitamin D deficiency is on the rise. Low blood levels of vitamin D are associated with an increased risk of heart disease and other age-related health problems.
It is one of the most potent antioxidants. Antioxidants help to protect the body from all kinds of age-related diseases by neutralizing free radicals.
Many of my natural skin care tips have to do with increasing your body’s antioxidant status. You can do that by eating more fruits and vegetables, drinking green tea and taking a good multi-nutritional supplement.
You should also use antioxidant-rich creams on a regular basis. That is one of the most important natural skin care tips. Some of the best antioxidant-rich moisturizers will actually help protect against sun damage. There’s no need to use risky chemical sunscreens.
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