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Simple Flawless Skin

By Julia Tolliver Maranan

If you're like most people, you want your skin to be radiant and healthy from head to toe. But, with hectic mornings and exhausted evenings, most of us don't have time to add one more thing to our skin maintenance routine even if it is good for us.
Thankfully, experts say you can have the clear, healthy, glowing skin you desire by making a few slight changes in your overall lifestyle. Check out these speedy solutions for better skin.

Catch more ZZZs During the night your skin tries to recoup, says Joni Keim Loughran, skin care expert and author of Natural Skin Care (North Atlantic Books). When you don't get enough shuteye, your skin is apt to look pallid and dark shadows under the eyes might start to appear. Getting adequate hours of sleep can help to reduce stress as well as strengthen your immune system which benefits overall skin health and specific conditions like eczema, according to Audrey Kunin, MD, dermatologist and author of The DERMAdoctor Skinstruction Manual (Simon & Schuster). Studies show most people need at least seven or eight hours every night.

Take regular walks In addition to reducing stress, regular sweat sessions boost circulation, bringing nutrients and oxygen to the skin and improving skin color and tone. Kunin recommends showering right after you exercise to wash away pore-clogging sweat and using a cleanser containing glycolic or salicylic acid to slough off dead skin and prevent breakouts.
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