Moisturize

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The second vital step in a good Purify – Nourish – Protect skin care regimen is to nourish your skin. You should feed, hydrate and replenish your skin with natural nutrients. By far the most important component of this is moisturizing.

Moisturize Liberally

The single disadvantage of cleansing your skin is that removing the dirt also removes the beneficial oils and moisture on your skin. These oils help retain precious moisture and form a barrier between the polluted environment and yourself. This drawback is easily neutralized by using a good moisturizer.

Moisturizing helps hydrate the skin and prevent it from further moisture loss.

A basic law of beauty is that everyone, no matter what skin type, should moisturize. Even if your skin is oily, it will benefit from moisturizers. (The only exception is those with acne). Moisturizers seal moisture into skin. Your skin will tell you how much it needs. When it feels tight, it's crying out for moisture.

Be careful not to over moisturize as this can cause clogged pores.

Moisturizers are most effective just after bathing. Only use a facial moisturizer on your face as general skin moisturizers may be too heavy and possibly leave your face looking greasy.

A good moisturizer can stop the dry skin cycle from spiraling into cracked, thick, flaky skin. An effective moisturizer will have a combination of ingredients that: 

• Replenish the skin's natural ingredients that help maintain its structure. 
• Cut down on damage from free-radicals.
• Help the cells function more normally.

Creams and lotions often make the best facial moisturizers for a couple of reasons. First, they are typically water-based, and are lighter on the face.  

Secondly, many creams and lotions are humectants, an oil-free type that seals natural moisture into the skin and tends to have a longer-lasting effect.  

Creams are more moisturizing and replenish more deeply then lotions.

Two types of moisturizers are required: 

• A lightweight thin moisturizer for use during the day and underneath makeup. 
• A heavier more nutritious cream for night-time care.

Daytime Moisturizer

For daytime, the final step in your skin care routine should be applying a moisturizer that offers broad spectrum UVA protection of SPF 15 or higher (unless your foundation provides this same protection). Wearing sunscreen 365 days a year is the best way to protect your skin. A well formulated sunscreen used daily is the critical step in preventing wrinkles.

Nighttime Moisturizer

The only thing that differentiates a daytime moisturizer from a nighttime moisturizer is sunscreen. Skin needs the same beneficial state-of-the-art ingredients during the day as it does at night. All skin types need the same advanced ingredients to optimize healthy, normal cell, collagen, and immune defense production. What differs, depending on your skin type, is the texture of the product you choose. If you have normal to dry skin, a lotion or creamy lotion texture is best. If you have normal to oily skin, a gel or toner texture is ideal.

Apply a rich moisturizer designed for use on the face.  Unless the oily areas of your face are very oily, you should use a creamier moisturizer at night than in the morning.  Your skin loses more water while you sleep than while you're awake.  You can skip moisturizing your nose since it is generally oily.  Apply the moisturizer about half an hour before putting your face on the pillow.  This gives the moisturizer time to be absorbed so it won't end up on your pillowcase.

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