Skin Care Tips: Maintaining Healthy Skin While Traveling and Backpacking

Assumed status as one of the former Miss Indonesia was not cut off Nadine Chandrawinata adventurous spirit, to focus on the beauty business. Her love of traveling to different places all over Indonesia to explore the beauty of the mountains and the sea was carried out to test the adrenaline. "Travelling is my passion," said Nadine, at the launch of the book on account of the journey, Nadrenaline, the Scholastic Book Store, Matraman, East Jakarta.

Nadine's hobbies is quite extreme, especially her diving more backpacking trips in the following manner. Quite often she and her companion had a variety of unpleasant conditions. Sunbathe or even bask in the sun spray is not a taboo for him. No wonder her skin look darker now than ever before.

Maintain healthy skin
However, women born May 8, 1984 is still a woman who wanted to maintain the beauty and skin health. Many adventures and activities that happened, ranging from hiking, diving, traveling in hot weather to cold snowy, definitely makes the skin dry, blackened, and even broken. Then how Nadine maintain healthy skin?

"While traveling I also remain consistent to treat the skin, not only for beauty but also let the skin healthy," he told Compass Female.

Every journey, he did not forget to bring a variety of skin and facial care products in its carrier bags are oversized. Usually care products that must be carried packed in bottles travel-size so as not to take up space in the bag. "That must have taken and used for traveling the lotion, skin moisturizer, sunscreen cream, and hair conditioners," he explained.

These products are considered Nadine able to represent other products to treat, moisturize, and nourish the skin during the trip. He realized that the weather changes and extreme weather conditions often make the skin becomes very dry. Therefore, after every shower and when the weather is so hot or dry, lotions and skin moisturizers to be a savior to keep it moist.

Meanwhile, hair conditioner and sunscreen cream used to overcome the dryness of hair and skin to prevent too much exposure to sunlight due to diving. Nadine was not too worried about skin now looks increasingly blackened. More of sunscreen cream used to reduce exposure to ultraviolet light which is feared to be harmful to the skin.

Treatment after traveling
Recognizing the limitations of time to treat skin and body during a backpacking, Nadine was "revenge" after traveling to care for her beauty. "After a long journey, I usually do some ritual to restore skin beauty treatments," he said.

In addition to standard treatment as it does during the traveling, Nadine pamper the skin by making a mask to hydrate the skin throughout the body, and hair mask for beautiful long hair care. Not to forget he was performing maintenance such as pedicure and manicure.

Nail care is considered essential, and not just for style. "During the trip, hands and feet are touching the various objects and dirt, germs and bacteria so easy to get into the nail. So after traveling should be cleaned with a manicure and pedicure," he explained. Coupled with her bad habits when you're bored, that plays nails, make nails are damaged.

Regular and thorough maintenance usually starts since he returned from a trip, until it was time for venturing back to various places. Thus when in a place that is less friendly to the skin, it still has a "stock" healthy skin during the trip.

4 Basic Causes of Dry Skins

DROUGHT in the skin becomes a cause looks to be less beautiful. To work around this, know the cause of the dry skin attack. Dry skin can attack due to various things. In addition to its skin disorder, no matter the weather factors also affect the skin to a skin condition. Symptoms usually become scaly skin and tend to itch. Here are some causes, such as described by Besthealthmag.

Premature Aging
When entering a mature age, aging is a factor threatening. For that use anti-aging lotion can provide benefits to the skin. You can use the serum to rejuvenate skin and repair damaged DNA, eliminating free radicals, and increased production of collagen and elastin.

Winter weather
Cold weather can cause impaired skin conditions. When you travel to the outside for example, threats can attack dry skin. For that, you need to close the skin as possible and do not forget to use moisturizer containing shea butter or other moisturizing ingredients.

The Influence of Drugs
The use of drugs that are too strong to get rid of acne or certain medications can also cause dry skin. Therefore, use a moisturizer to help skin dehydrated.

Excessive Washing
This action will result in problems at hand. Because the issues at hand dermatitis can be caused by water and soap. Therefore advised to use gloves when you do work related to water, such as cooking and washing dishes. Then, after doing the job, avoid harsh soaps which contain antiseptic. Be sure to use moisturizer after washing your hands in the sink.

How to Use Skin Oil Correctly

Not a few women still underestimate the value of skin oil. They think that using a skin oil is very difficult. To you who are wondering how to use skin oil, see the following explanation:

How to use skin oil correctly
Using skin oil can indeed moisturize the skin, but to be able to distribute it evenly, need special treatment. It is very difficult to use oil for dry skin, because skin oils most suitable to the moist skin. But before using it, make sure that the skin is not too wet, because the oil will make it looks so damaged.

Levels of skin oil that will be used
You do need a little skin oil, but not too little. The amount of skin oil which is optimal for use is 2-3 drops. The amount will depend on the type of oil used. For example, one drop of rose oil is enough to be used on facial skin.

Do massage the skin
Before using the skin oil, do not forget to massage your skin. Nutrients and antioxidants must penetrate the outer layer of the skin rather than retained on the surface of the skin. So, the first step to do is to place a 2-3 drops of oil in the palm of the hand, then flatten between your palms. Then, gently massage the face with the palm of the hand. Start with the center of the forehead and massage with upward and outward motion. Do not massage around the eyes, just press it gently with the palm of the hand area.

Use a skin moisturizer before oil
If you are a water-based moisturizer, then use a good skin before applying oil. Because the water can not penetrate the oil layer.

Mixing oil with cream skin moisturizer
To use a skin oil that is more subtle, you have to mix it with moisturizer. For that, you can add a few drops of oil into the skin moisturizing cream.

This trick is useful to help you use the cream oil evenly and will prevent unexpected skin reactions. Vitamin-enriched moisturizer will have extra food and will help the oil penetrate deeper into skin layers.