— How Skincare Benefits Your Wellbeing

Skincare is self-care 

Self-care is considered to be a genuine mode of feeling safer, more secure and better in yourself when carried out regularly, and those who suffer from anxiety, depression and other mental health issues find that it assists them with their symptoms. 

Skincare is a very literal form of self-care in that you are regularly tending to your body’s largest organ. Think about it: carrying out your skincare routine, AM & PM, is something that requires concentration on the act itself. I have tried to do my skincare routine while doing something else and it nearly always ends with a favourite serum spilling.

It is at least two to three minutes where you look at yourself and watch yourself looking after you, and in your undoubtedly busy life, it’s invaluable to be alone with your own thoughts and take some me-time. 

In a study on over 5,000 women carried out by the Cleveland Clinic, where over 1,000 of those surveyed had children under the age of 18, 59% of the mums agreed that their family comes before them. Interestingly, of those without children, 54% of them took time for rest and relaxation compared to only 20% when it comes to those who had children.

Our ruling is that 100% of people should be taking time for themselves, even if it is a few minutes a day. An important note: the bathroom door is often one of the only doors you can lock without being asked questions! 

Your skincare routine is a routine 

When there are 6 and a half million things happening in your life at any given time, it becomes startlingly easy to fall out of a routine and just start “doing”. There’s nothing wrong with doing. But routine proves time and time again in studies to be beneficial for your mental health – this piece on Psychology Today outlines a few one of them.

Using your skincare consistently in the morning and evening speeds along your skin results and helps you to create more routines in your life, especially if you can convince yourself to prioritise it. You have to prioritise you, because nobody else is going to do it. Once you create one form of routine in your life, it becomes so much easier to develop others.

When your skin improves, your feelings around it will improve – if you make sure that you keep track 

Something we encounter a lot with our clients is that they sometimes rely on other people to tell them that their skin is improving, or they don’t notice the difference themselves. If you don’t notice the difference, you won’t feel better about it – this is the home truth.

Because of this, it’s important to be patient when it comes to results but to also actually celebrate the wins when it comes to your skin and acknowledge that is is improving. Even if the redness that was bothering you hasn’t quite subsided, maybe you have fewer blackheads or fine lines.  

Do you keep your progress pics? I don’t mean daily selfies necessarily, but even once weekly will allow you to look back and be grateful for how your consistent skincare routine has paid off.