Taking the time during your nightly routine to massage your skin has so many benefits including relieving stress, anxiety, and improving sleep.
Stress can wreak havoc on your immune system and can cause damage to your skin. The skin is the largest organ in the body, so it is important to take care of it, and one way is through self-massage. It increases blood flow bringing much needed nutrients to the skin, it also pushes toxins through the lymphatic system to flush the out of the body.
By boosting the lymphatic drainage, it can improve your skin tone, texture and help decrease puffiness and eliminate any toxins that may have built up in the skin. It also helps stimulates the production of collagen; the protein responsible for the skin’s elasticity.
It will also brighten your skin to give a healthy glow, so come on let’s take some self-care time every night and show our skin some love by massaging our products into our skin.
Something to remember is that anything you use on your face and body from soap, perfume, lotions, potions and make up gets absorbed into your skin so check your ingredients and make sure they aren’t harmful.
My favourite tools in my hands, Gua sha and my Roller. I use rose quartz, but you can use a jade one too.
Rose quartz crystals are said to stimulate blood circulation, clear away toxins and impurities, and unblock energies connected to the heart chakra.
It is like meditation for your skin.
As it glides over your skin it will relax and calm your muscles, increasing the blood flow to bring oxygen and nutrients to your skin, giving you a more youthful healthy glow and can dramatically improve the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. Just as we carry tension in our neck and shoulders, we also carry a lot of tension in our face, which contributes to the forming of wrinkles.
Rose quartz was used by the Romans and Greeks in their beauty treatments and is known as the love stone and helps promote peace and wellness.
It became popular when the Qing Empress used it on her face to keep her looking youthful and glowing.
Gua sha is a traditional Chinese medicine practice in which a tool is used to release toxins and increase blood flow to rejuvenate the skin.
but using your hands are effective too and you can’t underestimate the power of human touch so whatever tool you choose know It will help your products work better too!
So, after cleansing and applying your balancing lotion, apply your eye cream, then serum to your face, neck and chest with your hands, then apply moisturizer and start massaging with the roller, start at the neck, working your way up to jaw line, over the cheeks and along the forehead, flip it around to the smaller roller for eyes and around mouth, repeating each move three times. Then apply moisturiser.
Some of the benefits are-
- Improves skin elasticity
- acne
- promotes circulation and even skintone
- Reduces puffiness and wrinkles
- promotes relaxations and soothe anxiety
- improves lymphatic drainage
- Helps skins absorption of serums and creams.
- Can help relieve sinus pressure.
Tip, keep it in the fridge.
A study showed that 54% of woman reported more supple skin after taking time to massage their skin, and 50% felt their skin tighter. So, it’s time to massage away that tension and smooth the appearance of lines and wrinkles and enhance our glow.
Do you take the time for a self-care massage? Let me know in the comments. I would love to hear from you, send me a message on Instagram or Facebook and let’s chat or if you have any questions. I am here to help you glow.
As always sending you love and support.
Helena
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