Tips for Summer Skincare

One of the most important things to keep your skin beautiful is to stay hydrated. This helps with keeping your skin from getting too rough. You should also be sure to provide your body with lots of vitamin C. Changing up your diet can do wonders for your skin. Just by ensuring that you eat lots of vitamin C rich foods, you can provide your skin with all of the healthy collagen needed to keep the skin healthy, firm, and strong. Vitamin C rich foods can include things like orange, lemon, amla, grapefruits, tomato, and green leafy vegetables.

Ensuring that you wash your face every day is also important. The world is so full of toxins. You need to be sure that you wash it all off at the end of the day. Not only that, but you should also exfoliate all the dead skin cells off. These skin cells can be damaging to your skin’s texture. Look for professional exfoliants that contain gentle enzymes and alpha hydroxy acids.

Specifically, for the summer, the top product you need to be sure to use is sunscreen. Exposure to the sun’s harmful rays is the primary cause of premature aging, including wrinkles and fine lines. Not only that, you may also find that the sun causes dark spots and patches which are very unappealing and can potentially be the beginnings of skin cancer. Not only do you need to remember to apply sunscreen, you should also make sure you are reapplying it frequently. It is safe to say that applying every two hours is a good amount to ensure full protection of your skin. Also, if possible, you should stay out of the sun from mid-morning to late afternoon.

Katharos School of Aesthetics, located in Lexington, Kentucky, is the perfect place to learn and grow your knowledge of aesthetics. If you don’t know what aesthetics, it is “a branch of anatomical science that deals with the overall health and well-being of the skin, the largest organ of the body.” Aesthetics are so important for providing preventative care for the skin and to ensure the health and attractiveness of the skin for years to come. While we are new to the Lexington area, you can be sure we know our stuff. We are expected to open early June of 2019 and we are so excited to get started. Being the only esthetics school of our kind in Kentucky, we believe we have so much to offer the area. If you’re looking for further education in the world of aesthetics, we are proud to serve Lexington and the surrounding area, so give us a call today.