N Skin Care Alert

Exercise is Good for your Skin

Regular exercise brings numerous health benefits. It increases metabolism, reduces risk of heart disease and stroke, lowers blood pressure, helps you lose weight, boosts immune system, reduces stress and anxiety, improves concentration and energy levels and keeps your blood pumping. Aside from all these, working out can do wonders to your skin. .

Benefits to the skin

Regular exercise is essential to overall health, making it a major factor to our skin's health too. Exercise helps make your skin look fresh with a healthy, rosy glow by boosting your circulation, bringing oxygen and nutrients to all the cells in the body including the skin. It also helps counteract signs of aging. Muscle mass shrinks at an average of 10-12% between ages 30 and 65. This reduces muscle tissue that acts as an anchor and support to the skin. Having less muscle will make it easier to gain weight. Every pound of muscle mass in the body burns 30 calories a day, losing the muscle leaves more calories to turn into unwanted pounds. Being active will help burn more calories efficiently and maintain a good amount of muscle tissue, making your skin more firm and lose the excess pounds. Sweating due to exercise can be a means of removing toxins to cleanse the body.

Before you begin

• Keep it up if you're exercising regularly. For those who are starting an exercising regimen, especially those who are not athletic, here are some tips to get you started.

• Consult your doctor before embarking on a new exercise program, particularly those with health conditions.

• Set realistic goals. Results should be slow, but gradual. Overdoing it will leave you sore and discouraged.

• Exercise doesn't always mean an expensive gym membership. Engaging in sports or activities like yoga, dance or any activity that you enjoy will make you forget that you're actually exercising.

• One of the easiest ways to start is by walking more often. You can take the stairs if you're going 1-2 stories up or down or walk instead of drive in short distances. Slowly increase the duration of your walks when you get more comfortable.

• Try incorporating more activity to your daily life. Stand up and walk around while talking on the phone or watching TV.

Remember that a balanced diet, regular physical activity and a good skin care regimen can become your skin's best friends.

G Tips and Tricks

Caring for your Skin during Exercise

While exercise is good for you and your skin, there is still a need to proceed with caution to avoid any damage or injury.

• Wear a sports or support bra during exercise. This makes exercising more comfortable.

• Choose a bra with seamless cups. Constant rubbing will make nipples sore causing jogger's nipple. Apply petroleum jelly over them before exercising to prevent chapping. Better yet, use Godiva LicoWhite Lip Gloss. It will smoothen and lighten nipples and lips, giving it a pinkish tinge.

• Use proper shoes and socks for your preferred activity and replace them regularly. It will help avoid fungal infections like athlete's foot or corns and calluses caused by ill-fitting shoes.

• Rehydrate with water while exercising so you won't feel dehydrated.

• Remember to shower or bathe after exercising to clean off accumulated sweat and dirt.

• Buy good-fitting exercise clothes to avoid skin chafing, especially on the thighs or back.

• Use separate towels. One for wiping off sweat and the other for bathing.

• Use a high factor, broad spectrum sunscreen especially when exercising outdoors like Godiva Green Tea Sunblock Cream. ²

Godiva LicoWhite Lip Gloss and Green Tea Sunblock Cream is available online at www.godivaskincare.com. (Click here to view references)

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