Your skin is one of the most important organs and needs to be protected in order to keep its vitality, elasticity and shine. To keep your skin healthy, we have comprised the best daily skincare routine to keep you as beautiful and radiant as ever!
Daytime Best Skincare Routine:
1. Wash your face
After a (hopefully) long nights’ sleep, you may find yourself waking up in a groggy stupor as you shuffle to the bathroom. This is wonderful because now you are one step closer to washing away the sweat, grime, sleep and drool from the (again, hopefully) 8-hour rest you just awakened from!
We lose up to 340 calories per night due to sweating and breathing, so it is best to wipe your face clean before you walk out the door.
2. Cleanser
What water can’t wash away, cleansers can! Using a cleanser helps to remove the build-up of oils and dirt or left over make-up from the previous day.
By wiping the excess oils away, your skin is now set-up to absorb the rest of your skincare routine without rubbing the dirt into your pores.
With a bit of a help of Decléor Aroma Cleanse 3-in-1 Hydra-Radiance Smoothing and Cleansing Mousse created to deeply cleanse the face it will leave you with a clear and smooth complexion. With a fresh fragrance, this foamy cleanser restores radiance to your skin to keep you looking and feeling young.
3. Toner
Using toner in your routine cleanses the skin but also gives the appearance of smaller pores. By having smaller pores your skin is likelier protected against impurities and contaminants making it more challenging for your pores to appear larger.
Toners also moisturise! There are several products available that let your skin absorb vitamins and antioxidants and leave you feeling soft and well-nourished.
4. Moisturiser or Day Cream
Nobody particularly wants their skin to be flaky and dull and that is what moisturiser or a day cream can help you with. It prevents your skin from drying out and being rough to the touch. Use moisturiser to revitalise and bring back your skin’s natural softness when the winter winds leave you feeling cracked and dry.
Highly recommended Carita Genesis of Youth Nutritive Cream works wonders on the very driest of skins by acting at the source of imperfections to help reduce and correct loss of firmness and elasticity, helping to preserve your youthfulness.
5. Sun cream
Although a dose of vitamin D from sunshine is healthy for us, the ultraviolet rays that the sun gives off are not. These rays can give you skin cancer regardless of age, gender or race.
Nothing can be more damaging to your skin than the sun, so before you put on any makeup, make sure your skin is primed with a layer of sun cream, to prevent burns and premature ageing. You need to look out for two things: SPF and UVA.
If it takes you a long time to be burned by the sun you can go for a lower SPF (e.g. SPF 10) and if it takes you no time at all choose a higher SPF (e.g. SPF 50). Remember to apply your sun cream half an hour before you go out and regularly apply it to your skin to make sure it works.
Make sure that you choose a sun lotion that has a high UVA rating (usually stars rated 0 to 5) as these rays accelerate signs of ageing and wrinkles.
Night Time Best Skincare Routine
1. Remove make-up
If you wear makeup, take off as much as you can with a wipe or cream before you go to bed because the build-up of products will clog your skin up leaving you with dirty and oily pores and dry elsewhere – not a good look!
We recommend Carita BI-PHASE EYE MAKE-UP REMOVER.
It removes all traces of make-up and is especially soothing to the sensitive, thinner skin around the eyes.
2. Wash your face
Wash off those nasty pollutants from car exhausts and your sweat. The grime you collect after a day of hard-work or just walking down the street can plug up your skin and leave you with unhealthy looking skin.
3. Cleanser
Much like before, putting a cleanser on removes dirt and grime, only this time you’ll really be attacking those hard to see spots where you think your skin is clean but actually… really isn’t.
4. Toner
After removing all of your makeup and oils from your face your skin is left with an imbalanced PH level which takes time to restore back to its normal level and this, unfortunately, can lead to more oils! And again we recommend Decléor AROMA CLEANSE ESSENTIAL TONIFYING LOTION.
This soft lotion gently tones your skin and reduces dryness as it moisturises and awakens the skin. This gentle paraben-free toner contains Néroli Essential Oil to protect and repair the skin whilst helping to fight dehydration, leaving skin cleansed and radiant.
5. Serum
There are several functions of serums, particularly if you find a vitamin C based is regenerating your skin’s collagen (protein), and reducing wrinkles and fine lines. Serums also help to reduce acne. Highly recommended Decléor AROMAESSENCE MAGNOLIA FACIAL OIL SERUM. This oil serum is made from 100% natural origin ingredients. It is formulated with essential oils of Magnolia and Ginger and with botanical oils of Hazelnut and Jojoba. It is a youthful concentrate of energy for the skin. The skin looks plumper and firm, with a fresh and luminous glow.
6. Eye Cream
The most sensitive part of your face is the skin under your eyes which is easy to wrinkle, dry-out and appear dull and tired when not looked after properly. Reduce the stress of having to worry about appearing tired and ill by including an eye cream into your routine that specifically targets puffiness, dark circles, crow’s feet and wrinkles. You will definitely make a right choice with Carita SUPREME WRINKLE SOLUTION EYE CONTOUR, target wrinkles, dark circles and puffiness around the eyes.
7. Moisturiser/ Night Cream/ Face Oil
During the night your skin is subjected to cold air, dehydration and sleeping on a pillow that holds sweat residue from the previous night. This means your skin needs to remain hydrated throughout the night so it is best to use a thick moisturiser / night cream or face oil.
The Chelsea Spa beauty therapists highly recommend Decléor AROMESSENCE YLANG YLANG NIGHT BALM. This night balm is dry to the touch yet quickly turns into an indulgent melted texture to offer the perfect night-time treatment for combination and oily skin types. A powerful concentrated blend of Essential Oils purify and rebalance the skin through the night so you can wake up to a cleaner, clearer, more radiant complexion with imperfections and inflammations visibly reduced.
It is, of course, not necessary to buy all of these products to keep your skin healthy but a little goes a mile!
The Chelsea Spa uses and sells all Decléor and Carita skincare products mentioned to help maintain your body’s natural radiance.
We hope to see you soon!
The Chelsea Spa
www.thechelseaspa.co.uk
53 Hollywood Road, Chelsea, London
SW10 9XH
