Tips to Nourish Your Skin Naturally

 

As the time elapses, it keeps pulling out nourishment from the skin, making it look dull and tired slowly. This dullness occurs due to the formation of unstable molecules, known as free radicals, when your skin is exposed to elements like sun, wind, temperature, stress, and pollution during the day. These react with the skin to diminish skin proteins (collagen) and thus weaken the skin substrate to cause a slow & continuous ageing, which is not easy to realize till the results start showing in the form of sagginess and wrinkles. So, how do we stay away from this? Is it possible to prevent it? The answer is in a regular treat of nourishment for your skin that is rich in antioxidants.

Great Diet Mean Great Skin:

The skin is the external reflection of your internal health. Glowing, clear, moist skin is a sign of good diet, whereas pale, dry, oily or scaly skin may result when diet is not up to the standard. Luckily, the eating habit that works best for being healthy also helps to maintain the source of our youthful skin.

Natural Tonic for Your Skin:

Every nutrient has a role in sustaining healthy skin. Vitamin C helps build collagen, a strongly fibrous protein between the connective tissues in our body. Inadequate of this vitamin can cause loss of elasticity & skin strength, bruising, and poor healing of scrapes & cuts. Just a daily intake of a bowl of strawberries or a glass of orange juice gives the vitamin C you need. Vitamin D in milk may help in reducing the symptoms of psoriasis. A good healthy skin also needs the vitamin B, found in milk, wheat germ, and whole grains that helps to fasten wound healing and prevent dry, oily, or flaky skin. Water maintains the skin moist and regulates the function of the oil glands. Zinc in legumes, seafood, and meat assists in the healing of scrapes & cuts. Vitamin A in liver, egg yolks, and green vegetables & fruits, maintains epithelial tissues (membranous tissue covering internal organs and other internal surfaces of the body) such as skin, helps to prevent premature wrinkling, and sandpaper-like skin. The list of nutrients that supports the skin is almost endless.

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Ayurveda and Beauty

The definition of beauty in Ayurveda is referred as “subhanga karanam”, which is nothing but transforming all features of mind and body to the most auspicious stage. Ayurveda believes that the beauty of secret lies in merging our inner self with our outer self, so that we can achieve a perfect and the timeless glow of balanced health. In the aspect of Ayurveda, beauty is not just skin-deep, cosmetic surgery, face-lifts, and so on. It is more than that, and it is not meaningful to search beauty in hair salons and health clubs. Instead, turn inwards and see the endless beauty within us.  

 In a period, when beauty is often equated with a fair complexion, a fashionably thin figure, or with the shape of the nose, Ayurveda differs from those cultures. Ayurveda, the ancient and traditional healing system of India, has a unique viewpoint on beauty.

As per Ayurveda, the pillars of beauty are Roopam, Gunam, and Vayastyag. Roopam refers to outer beauty, Gunam is inner beauty, and Vayastyag stands for lasting beauty. This proves that Ayurveda does not concentrate only on cosmetics to attain a true beauty. 

According to Ayurveda, outer beauty is a reflection of lifestyle, healthy eating habits, and good health. Each type of body structure, whether big, medium or thin, can be beautiful as long as good health exists. Ayurveda believes that you are what you eat, and you are what you digest. It is all about diet. A clear complexion begins with efficient nutrition, proper digestion, absorption of nutrients, and normal elimination.

Inner beauty draws its sustenance from the spiritual wealth within our self, that is, our spiritual qualities, mental abilities, inner reserves of strength, and emotional states. Loving and accepting all, which is positive in life, is what we call as truly beautiful in Ayurveda. True beauty comes from a peaceful, calm interior, and relaxed mind.

The Ayurvedic mind and body balance is accomplished by balancing the three energies of Vata, Pitta and Kapha; our body-fire or agni that helps to digest food; the seven body tissues or dhatus, which form the nutrient plasma, fat, bones, bone marrow, reproductive fluid, blood, and muscles; and the body's waste products, such as urine, excreta, and perspiration. The perfect balance of all these body systems, leads to good health and vitality, together with the maintenance of happiness and peace.

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