6 Reasons you Should Sleep for your Skin

Though we often take it for granted, skin is actually the largest organ of the body. It keeps us intact, holds out allergens and other stressors, and helps hold everyone together, literally. And that’s only the beginning of what skin has to offer.

Aside from nutrients and plenty of moisture, however, one of the most important things our skin needs is sleep. By getting the proper amount of rest – something we need to function anyway, the skin, too, can greatly improve upon its health. Including aspects such as:

6. Improving the Immune System

Did you know a large function of the immune system runs through the skin? A lack of rest doesn’t allow the epidermis to perform those same duties with efficiency. 

5. Beauty Rest

It’s not just a myth. Getting better sleep helps you look better, allowing the skin an extra ability to glow and reflect more attractive sections of light. 

4. Slowing the Aging Process

Deep and regular bouts of sleep allows the body to look and feel younger. In contrast, a bad night’s rest can increase that process, something no one wants to encourage. 

3. Jump Starting the Metabolism

Regular sleep can also improve one’s ability to burn calories in a resting state. Staying awake, however, can do the opposite and actually slow down the metabolism.

2. Getting Rid of Skin Conditions

Whether you suffer from blemishes, eczema, or some other skin irritability, sleep can help make it better. This works to let the body to cure itself with rest, rather than stressing while awake, only irritating the situation even further.

1. Rejuvenating During Sleep

Yes really. Skin, just like the rest of the body, needs the opportunity to catch up on down time and relaxation. Through regular and recommended sleep, it can help toward all of the above, and more. Just from getting your daily night’s sleep.

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How Shower Temperature Affects Your Health

How often do you think about your body when checking the water temperature? Right before you jump in the shower, and you’re adjusting colder or hotter, depending on your level of preference. Or nerve sensitivity – do you consider degrees, even in the slightest? In all actuality, it’s a subject very few people generally explore. If you’re cold, the shower is hot – and that makes us enjoy getting clean all the more. End of story. But what if there were more to it?

Believe it or not, your shower temperature can actually have a direct correlation to your level of health. For instance, taking a cooler shower when suffering from a fever will help it break. While taking too hot a shower can actually make a cold worse. A shower that’s too hot can also work to dry out the skin, cause you to be extra thirsty, or even create minor burns. While chilling yourself – on purpose or because the hot water’s been used – can force you to cower and strain muscles. Or lead to an all-day chill that sinks to your core. A fact that will likely lead to a bad mood as well. 

These might sound small, but when repeated on a daily basis, they can work to greatly negate and deteriorate certain health factors. Especially the skin and how it holds up with daily hydration practices. 

Finding the “right” temperature, however, can work to jumpstart each time you get clean. A shower with a medium temp still gets the job done, but without creating unnecessary side effects. Even if they’re unknowingly caused along the way.

The next time you take a shower, consider the water temperature and how it might potentially affect your daily health routine. Even slight adjustments can work toward ongoing, yet significant, improvements. 

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Avoid Muscle Pains With Proper Skin Care

Along with summer comes a number of seasonal changes – for instance, spending more time outdoors or having to brace yourself for the impending heat each time you step outside the door. One of the biggest changes, however, comes from all the direct sunlight that comes into contact with your skin. Whether you’re making a quick run to the car or are spending hours of exposed time out in the heat, it’s important to take the necessary precautions.

Failing to do so can leave you not only with a nasty and painful sunburn, it can cause permanent damage to the skin, and even work to harm deeper layers. Whether leaving scars or just tensing muscles from healing follicles (and all the cringing), sunburns can leave you in a painful state from the very second they occur. And worst of all, it’s days – if not weeks – until the skin is completely back to normal. (Even if it’s peeled and appears to be back to its original state.)

How to Take Care of Your Skin

Obviously, the easiest way to avoid a burn is through the use of sunscreen. No matter how tan you are, no matter how tan you want to be, sunscreen will protect your skin from harmful rays. Besides, spending enough time in the light will still allow for some color (depending on one’s complexion), while the sunscreen protects it in the process. 

It’s also a good idea to choose shade, a large-brimmed hat, or any other blockage to help shield yourself. Sitting in the shade even for a few minutes can help add some much needed relief to your skin, especially after hours in the sun. And if it’s not too hot, light layers will also add further protection. 

To save both your skin and the muscles underneath it, consider taking steps toward better sun protection today. 

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