If you’ve had a particularly rough week, you’d know the look: dry and dull skin, dark undereye circles, puffy eyes and the appearance of fine lines you never knew existed. Everyday stressors come from environmental, chemical and lifestyle sources can cause inflammation, weaken the skin barrier – and, yes, add years to your face. These can have a negative impact on your skin and cause you to look less attractive in the mirror.
Although there are many stress-reducing methods, such as getting enough sleep, regular exercise, and a healthy diet, skincare products such as the Bio-DNA Defence Aqua Gel, a Porcelain-made skincare product, can help reduce the impact of everyday stressors. This will allow you to manage stress from the inside out as well as the outside.
Let’s first ask: How does everyday stress affect our skin?
Environmental stress comes from air pollution in the form of free radicals, dust particles, and heavy metals as well as photodamage from the sun’s ultraviolet rays and visible blue light. Environmental stress causes damage to DNA in skin cells and also causes inflammation and an increase in sebum production.
Chemical stress is caused by chemicals that we are exposed to every day. These chemicals include aerosol sprays and cleaners like detergents, as well as formaldehyde found within wood products and permanent-press fabrics. These chemicals can cause skin irritation and sensitization over time due to their persistent contact with the skin.
Lifestyle stress is a result of lifestyle issues such as stress, worry, anxiety, smoking, late nights and unbalanced eating. This can lead to free radicals and an increase in stress hormones, which can cause havoc in the body. This is coupled with the disruption of our circadian rhythm and the body’s innate ability to repair and regenerate.
As a result, stress causes our skin’s internal and external protective function to fail, resulting in inflammation, irritation and accelerated ageing that manifests in the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, age spots, dark eye circles and undereye bags, dry and dull skin, sensitive and sensitised skin and the loss of elasticity and fullness.
How can I get rid of stressed-out skin?
Eliminate all nasties from you skincare routine
To counteract stress-related problems, it is important that you adjust your skincare routine. Avoid artificial fragrances and irritating ingredients like parabens and phthalates, drying alcohols, sulphates and phthalates, silicones, mineral and animal-derived oil, and sulphates.
Look for products that contain bio-actives or herbs
Importantly, you should focus on skincare products that are rich with skin-loving phyto-actives as well as medicinal herbs. One example would be Porcelain’s Bio-DNA Defence Aqua Gel. This lightweight gel-cream facial moisturiser employs a blend of eight traditional and clinically proven bio-actives to combat effects of everyday stressors, protect skin from premature ageing and keep your mien looking fresh and dewy all day, even when you’re running on empty.
The moisturiser contains eight potent bioactive ingredients, including extracts from red sage, chestnut seed, and Mongolian snakegourd, as well as allantoin and niacinamide, and olive fruit oil. Chestnut seed provides cellular protective and reparative capabilities, red sage has anti-inflammatory properties that soothe sensitivity and redness while Mongolian snake gourd increases cell energy levels to better fight ageing and inflammation and improve the cell’s ability to protect and repair. Allantoin stimulates collagen-producing fibrblast cells cells, soothes skin, promotes wound healing, as well as antioxidant niacinamide which neutralises oxidative stresses. Avocado oil and olive oil are rich in fatty acid that moisturize and protect the skin.
Get a face massage
A facial massage can help you relax after a long day. Start by applying Porcelain’s Bio-DNA Defence Aqua Gel all over your face, neck and décolleté and use long strokes from your forehead down to your neck to aid lymphatic drainage. To complete, lift your neck, cheeks and corners of the eyes, then move upwards.
With Porcelain’s Bio-DNA Defence Aqua Gel and its formulation of eight powerful bio-actives and medicinal herbs, you can confidently combat damaging everyday stressors, stave off premature skin ageing and present your best self.
Our review:
Our skin, which was already irritated from late nights, mask-wearing, and being back to work, received the instant relief it needed by drinking up the oil-free hydration. Overnight, the skin became clearer and more radiant. While we may not be able completely relax at times, this gel cream definitely gives us something to worry about.
Porcelain’s Bio-DNA Defence Aqua Gel is available at all Porcelain Spas, Porcelain’s e-store and selected e-marketplaces at $120.
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Source: Her World
