Tips For Skin Care

With dry skin, if you'd been using a strong, detergent-based cleanser over the summer, switch to something milder.

If your skin is normal, and you'd been using a light rnoisturiser and foundation during the day, try a richer, thick formula instead. Apply a moisturiser at night, too, on your neck, ears, and collar-bone area, as well as on your face.

If your skin is normal-to-oily or oily, and you'd avoided a rnoisturiser all summer, try an oil-free formula for both daytime and overnight use.

If your skin is normal-to-dry or dry, and you'd been using a light rnoisturiser all summer, switch to a richer, thicker, creamier, but non-clogging formula.

Whatever your skin type, be sure to moisturise your body as well as your face. With your skin slightly damp after showering or bathing, apply a body lotion or cream, concentrating on shoulders and rough spots - elbows, knees, feet. Dermatologists frequently recommend body moisturisers containing an AHA (alpha hydroxy acid), which helps exfoliate the skin's uppermost layer.

Even though the sun may no longer be generating summer heat, don't take that as a sign to stash your UV block in the back of your medicine cabinet. Dermatologists now frequently recommend an SPF of at least 30 for all skin types in summer, and a minimum of 15-20 during autumn.

Keep Up Your Water Intake
All of us tend to drink more liquids in the summer but this shouldn't stop with the cooler change in temperatures. Drinking lots of water has been bandied about for years but there are many realistic reasons for doing it. One being the fact that the body flushes toxins out through your urine - meaning the more you go the more your liver is being filtered.

Also, a big plus of being well hydrated is that it can help to curb your appetite. So often we think we're hungry when really we just need a glass of water.