Did you know that your circadian clock that regulates your sleep-wake cycle also regulates your skins natural defence and repair modes?
By applying products that work with these natural modes, you can achieve your healthiest skin. This is why we advice having a slightly different skin routine in the morning and at night.
In the morning your skin will be in daytime defense mode - ready to defend against UV light, pollution and free radical damage. Give you skin a helping hand by using day time products that help prevent free radical damage, combat the effects of pollution on the skin and most importantly use SPF to protect the skin from UV.
At night your skin is in recovery mode: cell renewal rate almost doubles and collagen production rises, repairing UV damage and strengthening skin. Optimise night time skin recovery with hydrating products, calming products that repair the skin and the skins barrier and products that work on promoting collagen production.
What should be different about your skin routine in the evenings?
✨Make sure you double cleanse in the evening to make sure all your makeup is removed and all dirt and pollution from the day is too.
✨ Serum - You can choose a different serum at night as the skin repairs at night so takes on active ingredients well.
✨ Retinol can be added into a nighttime routine if you are ageing. You must only ever use retinol at night and not in the morning as it doesn’t react well with the sun. Always speak to a skin therapist before using retinol.
✨ Use a more hydrating moisturiser than your day cream as skin dehydrates at night. Choose a more heavyweight moisturiser and ideally don’t use your day time moisturiser at night if it has SPF in it.
✨ Eye creams can be different at night, more targeted and can contain retinol.
Foods to help sleep
Here’s some tips on adapting your diet to help improve sleep from Amie @body_fabulous
Changing your diet can be a really useful way to help reset your sleep cycle. The body uses the amino acid tryptophan to help make the hormones melatonin and serotonin which help us sleep. Tryptophan can’t actually be made in the body, it has to obtained through diet so this should be one of the first things you look at when trying to help sleep patterns.
The body produces melatonin just after it gets dark, peaking in the early hours of the morning and reducing during daylight hours. Melatonin acts on receptors in your body to encourage sleep. If your sleep cycle is all over the place then try increasing these sleep friendly foods;
- Fruits and vegetables, specifically tart cherries, corn, asparagus, tomatoes, pomegranate, olives, grapes, broccoli and cucumber.
- Grains, specifically rice, barley and rolled oats.
- Nuts and Seeds, specifically walnuts, peanuts, sunflower seeds, pumpkin and seasame seeds.
- Meats, focus on turkey or chicken.
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