Almost everyone is aware that stress is bad, and most of the time it’s inevitable that we have to face stressful situations. It usually causes headaches, difficulty concentrating, and even nausea in some cases. However, it also causes so many problems for your body internally, which can take a serious toll on your skin. That is why self-care should be a top priority.

Skin is our largest organ, so there is a plethora of ways that stress can aggravate it. Stress triggers skin to be extra sensitive and releases cortisol and other hormones that make your body produce more oil. This could also intensify other issues you may already be suffering from.

Inflammation

That’s right, any condition that is associated with inflammation including acne, psoriasis, dermatitis, and so many more can be aggravated when you are stressed. This is due to the production of stress hormones and the way they create pro-inflammatory molecules in your body. This can produce redness, swelling, and rashes on your skin as well.

Aging

Stress making you age faster isn’t a myth. There’s science to back it up. Cortisol, the stress hormone, is an enemy of collagen and it breaks down the connective tissues that keep your skin looking young and supple. On top of that, stress makes many people frown, which can cause permanent wrinkles on your forehead and brow.

Dull and Dry Skin

Epinephrine is produced when you are stressed too. This hormone decreases blood flow, which means that there is a decrease in how much oxygen reaches your skin from the inside. It can also cause more water to leave your body. Both of these combined causes a dull and dry complexion because your skin isn’t getting the nutrients it needs.

While stress is unavoidable, you have options on how you can deal with it. One of the many avenues you can take is investing time in self-care. This could include any of the following:

• Yoga or meditation
• Journaling
• A warm bath
• Lighting candles and reading a good book
• Get some sleep
• Exercise
• Face masks
• Get your nails done
• Treat yourself for making through a stressful situation

Luxiny’s products can also help you avoid the effects that stress can cause on your skin. Ordering yours online today would also be a great way to reward yourself for making it through your stressful situation! Find out more on our website!

Have you ever wondered when the most optimal time to apply lotion would be? Some of us keep a bottle of lotion at our desk, in our car, in our purse, and even our bedside table. While all of these are convenient places to have a bottle of lotion, have you considered putting a bottle next to your shower? That’s right, the best time to apply your lotion is after you get out of the shower or right after washing your face while your skin is still damp!

In most cases, we are applying lotion because our skin already seems dry, in order to add moisture back into the skin. However, it’s much better to use a preventative approach. Lotion works best when it can be absorbed deeply into the skin. When our skin is wet and damp it may not seem like we need to add more moisture to our skin, but this is when your skin is able to absorb things the deepest.

If you continue to apply it when your skin is dry, you may realize that you need to reapply every couple of hours in order to keep your skin feeling soft. This approach is okay because you can apply lotion as often as you need to, though it is a good way to go through your lotion much faster than necessary. After showering, your skin cells expand and allows lotion to make its way deeper into your skin cells.

If you still find that your skin is too dry even though you’re putting lotion on immediately after a shower, you may want to try another method. For instance, try using lukewarm water instead of hot. Hot water has a tendency to dry out your skin much faster. You should also consider how much water you have been drinking lately and increase it if necessary.

Here at Luxiny we wanted to be sure that you are getting the optimal results with your creams and lotions. We have the perfect Vitamin C Cream that will add the moisture and nutrients that your skin has been craving. To find out more information on our products, visit our website.

Have you been skipping moisturizer because you have oily skin? Many people think that this is the best plan of action because they don’t want to add even more shine to their skin. However, you should be more concerned with hydration than adding more shine to your face. The two are often confused but are actually quite different. When you don’t hydrate because you’re afraid of adding more oil, you might actually develop more problems because your skin isn’t getting the hydration that it needs to look young and healthy. Never underestimate the power of the perfect moisturizer.

By skipping moisturizer, you may be causing more oil production. It’s important to remember that oily skin does not mean that your skin has enough water. When your skin is lacking the hydration that it needs it rebounds by creating more oil. This, of course, causes more issues like breakouts, inflammation, and clogged pores. If this pattern continues, it can even cause premature aging and breakouts. Needless to say, yes, you need a moisturizer even if you have oily skin. You shouldn’t just grab any lotion on the shelf for your face though!

Don’t settle for just any moisturizer. When searching for a moisturizer that works for oily skin you will want something lightweight that doesn’t leave a greasy residue behind. It’s best to avoid face creams that contain heavier ingredients like cocoa butter, lanolin, or even petrolatum, because these ingredients will clog your pores.

Give Luxiny’s Vitamin C Cream a try! We have formulated our Vitamin C Cream to provide your skin with hydration and nourishment without leaving your skin feeling greasy and heavy. It was designed with oily skin in mind and won’t add extra shine to your skin. We know that our Vitamin C Cream will help you diminish dark spots, reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, provide an antioxidant protection, and it won’t leave your skin feeling like it has excess oil.  Visit our website for more information!

Throughout the day, dead skin cells build up on the surface of our skin. This can cause our skin to look tired, haggard, and can even cause our skin to show signs of aging faster. Exfoliating removes these dead skin cells and makes our skin brighter, supple, and smooth. There are two types of exfoliators that are popular; physical exfoliators and chemical exfoliators.

Physical Exfoliators

 Physical exfoliators include anything that buffs out your skin in order to remove dead skin cells. This can include tools to aid in exfoliation (such as a loofah or facial brushes) and scrubs that can be rather abrasive. These scrubs work by rubbing particles against your skin to buff away the dead skin to reveal the newer, younger layer of skin. While these scrubs have been very effective for years, they can also be harsh on your skin and cause the skin to seem more sensitive. This option has been popular for many years, but as studies advance chemical exfoliators are becoming the preferable option.

Chemical Exfoliators

Chemical exfoliators can sound kind of scary, but it’s quite the opposite. This option is more gentle and universally suitable for all skin types. They are made up of alpha hydroxy acids or beta hydroxy acids, and don’t contain particles that can cause irritation or become lodged in your pores. Chemical exfoliators work by breaking the bonds between dead skin cells and new skin cells. This makes it easy for the dead skin to be washed away with ease.

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Our bodies are always producing new skin cells. However, this means that we are also always losing skin cells. As skin cells produce on the deepest layer of our skin, the top layer sheds our old skin cells. These dead cells sometimes have a difficult time sloughing off though, which makes our skin look tired, older, and can also cause acne.

This is what makes exfoliating so important for everyone. Exfoliating removes these dead skin cells and renews our skin again. It makes our skin appear brighter and younger. However, over-exfoliating can lead to redness and irritation, dry or flaky skin, an increase in oil production, acne, shininess, and can even cause your skin to become more sensitive to UV rays.

How often should you exfoliate?

How often we exfoliate is dependent on what type of skin you have. Even further, it may depend on how oily, dry, or sensitive your skin actually is since everyone’s skin is slightly different. However, the most common answer is once or twice a week in order to observe how your skin reacts to the exfoliant before increasing the frequency. Once you have done this for a few weeks, you can evaluate whether you should increase or decrease the usage based on whether you see improvements or the signs of over-exfoliating listed above.

What should you do after exfoliating?

Exfoliating is important when it comes to maintaining young and healthy skin, but there are a few things you should always remember to do after in order to help you achieve a more youthful glow. You should always remember to hydrate and moisturize your skin after exfoliating in order to replace any lost oils from the process. Luxiny has the perfect hyaluronic acid serum that provides your skin with hydration, and a fantastic Vitamin C Cream to add moisture back into the skin. Use both together for the best results in calming your skin. To find out more, visit our website!

Here at Luxiny, we are always conscious of how important it is to take great care of our skin. It’s our largest organ and we often pay less attention to it than our hair, which is made up of keratinized cells.  Our skin is a living organ that deserves our time and attention. The options available to take care of our skin can seem overwhelming at first, but we’ve put together a list of what we consider the most effective ones.

1. Ditch the smoking.

There are so many reasons to do this for your overall health, but it takes a serious toll on your skin as well. Smoking narrows the blood vessels that are located close to the surface of the skin. This reduces the flow of blood throughout the body and deprives the skin and the rest of your body of oxygen and nutrients that it needs. This will inevitably lead to the reduction in your body’s ability to produce collagen and elastin, the molecules that give your skin natural elasticity.

2. Check-in with your stress levels.

Stress is mentally exhausting, we know. But are you aware of the havoc it can wreak on your body physically too? It can make your skin more sensitive to the foods that you eat, which will lead to breakouts, less sleep, and cause you to look more tired and haggard. Make sure that you’re always making time for some self-care in order to keep yourself in a healthy state of mind.

3. Get enough sleep.

Just like stress can cause you to get less sleep, less sleep can also cause you to become more stress on your body. Our bodies do most of our reparative work while we sleep. When your body is deprived of a healthy amount of sleep, it misses out on the opportunity to regenerate skin, muscles, blood, and brain cells.

4. Eat a balanced diet and drink your water.

Providing your body with the nutrients and hydration that it needs on a molecular and cellular level will create results you can’t always get from just using topicals. It is providing your body with nourishment and support from the inside out. A bonus is that it will also help you feel your best, not just look your best!

5. Protect your skin from the sun.

The sun can be harsh on or skin. A lot of sun exposure can cause wrinkles and age spots, and it can also increase your odds of developing skin cancer. Therefore, it is so important to use sunscreen daily and it should be at least SPF 15. It is also best to avoid the sun from 10am to 2pm if you can, when the sun is at its highest peak.

6. Develop and stick to a daily skincare routine.

Lastly, developing a daily skincare routine using Luxiny’s products can both help prevent the skin from showing signs of aging and help reverse the damage that has already been done. Of course, we mean it when we say daily though. Only using our products periodically won’t help you in the long run.

These are just a few suggestions that we put together with the most effective skincare tips we know of. There is so much more you can do to care for your skin, but we understand that life gets busy and it can be difficult to keep up with. Needless to say, we tried to keep it simple in this article. For more information visit our website!

Just about everyone is aware that we start life with taut and smooth skin as an infant, and that as we age our skin changes too. We’ve discussed a lot of the daily habits that many people have that can age the skin faster, but we haven’t discussed what happens internally. There are numerous things that happen within our body that causes our skin to gain fine lines and wrinkles.

Consider all that it protects you from. Everyday, your skin is protecting the inside of your body from harmful bacteria and viruses that would make our bodies incredibly sick. On top of that, it repairs itself whenever we endure harm. It is consistently healing from small scratches, cuts, and even bruises. It is almost always generating new skin cells.

Your skin loses the ability to retain moisture as we age. This is partly because hormone production decreases as we get older and partly because we face harsh weather transitions that influence our body’s physical transformation too. Thankfully, the dryness of our skin is easily treated with moisturizers.

Skin loses the ability to produce as much elastin over time. Elastin, along with collagen, are proteins that are found in connective tissue within our skin. It is what allows skin to return to its original shape after we move. The loss of these proteins means that skin will begin to lose its elasticity, which will lead to the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles.

Thankfully, there are products that you can purchase in order to help combat the effects that time has on our skin. Luxiny has the perfect duo for you to use! Our Pure Hyaluronic Acid Serum helps provide your skin with the nutrients it needs in order to retain moisture and regain it’s soft, smooth, and plump appearance. Pairing it with out Vitamin C Cream creates optimum results, because our cream helps reduce the appearance of wrinkles, age spots, and provide your skin with antioxidants. Visit our website today for more information!

Winter can be very unkind to our skin. It’s harsh, cold, and the air is dry enough to cause our skin to lose moisture. You may feel defeated when it comes to keeping your skin moisturized during these colder months and may even think that there’s nothing you can do to prevent it, but that couldn’t be farther from the truth. We know and share your struggles, so we thought we would provide you with some advice on how you can combat dry skin this year.

Avoid long, hot showers. We know, we know! Hot showers just sound so perfect when it’s cold out. However, hot water tends to dry our skin out faster than warm or cold water. It is best to keep our showers on the warm side rather than the hot side, and even better if you cut down on your time in the shower altogether.

Moisturize immediately after you shower. Applying your lotion while your skin is still damp allows it to work deeper into the skin than it would when it is completely dry. Keep your lotion near your bathtub or shower so that it’s easily accessible after you get out.

Try to moisturize overnight. Gloves and socks should be worn outside to protect your skin from the cold, rain, and snow, but they can help you lock moisture in your skin too. You simply need to apply your lotion on your hands and feet at night, then wear a pair of cotton socks and gloves over them until the morning. You’ll wake up with your skin feeling soft and supple.

Exfoliate and apply your serums! Moisturizer can help the keep the skin from drying out, but sometimes it just isn’t enough and while your everyday routine is important, it becomes even more crucial during the winter. Exfoliating helps remove dead skin cells that would flake off otherwise during the winter (just don’t over exfoliate, two times a week is plenty). Applying your serums immediately after washing our face allows your skin to absorb them more deeply AND prepare your skin for your moisturizer. This allows for your skin to receive the maximum benefits that your moisturizer and serums can provide you. Luxiny has the top of the line Pure Hyaluronic Acid Serum that helps keep your skin hydrated, even through the difficult weather.

Hydrate from the inside out. This route won’t have immediate results like topicals treatments and lotions, but it does go a long way when it comes to keeping your skin looking healthy. Most of our body is made up of water, so it only makes sense that staying hydrated internally will keep all our cells healthy, including our skin cells.

Use a humidifier. Once we start turning the heat on in our homes, the moisture in the air evaporates. This can cause your skin to become dry, itchy and cracked. Using a humidifier moisture back into the air and will help prevent this from taking place.

These are just a few suggestions that we have that can help you keep your skin moisturized this winter. It’s a tough battle, but with the help of Luxiny’s products, it’s one you can win. Visit our website to find out more!

Our skin is our largest organ, and its purpose is to protect all our inside organs. Our skin comes into contact with tons of bacteria, stressors, and pollution every day that would normally cause harm to our internal organs. There are things that could be doing more damage than necessary to your skin than you. It is so important to protect our skin because it acts as a barrier for all our other organs. By doing so, we are doing our best to protect all our organs inside too, therefore, leading to an overall healthier life.

Are you knowingly damaging your skin?

Our skin faces the harsh effects of our environment every hour of every day. While everyone has different skin types that require different kinds of care, there are things that you could be doing that would make anyone’s skin age faster. Knowing what these habits are could help you protect your skin in the long run, so we’ve put together a list that might help you prevent premature aging.

1. Spending too much time in the sun!

Many people love to tan and bask out in the sun on a perfectly good summer day. The sun can cause serious damage and injury to our skin cells though. Once the cells are injured irreparably, you are more prone to aging and skin cancer. It’s best to try to set a limit on how much time you spend in direct sunlight. Likewise, you should always apply sunscreen to help protect your skin during the time that you spend in the sun and avoid tanning beds.

2. Smoking doesn’t just take its toll on your lungs.

Almost everyone is aware that smoking wreaks havoc on your lungs and heart, but it can also cause more wrinkles! Smoking does similar things to what the sun does to our skin, only it works from the inside out. It makes our skin appear tired, and it also yellows the skin, slows wound healing, and it interferes with the skin’s blood supply.

3. We know that pimple is annoying, but don’t touch your face!

The urge can be hard to resist, we know. Picking at or popping pimples can make things worse or cause scarring. By touching your face consistently can transfer germs, dirt, bacteria, and sweat from your hands onto your face if your hands have not been recently washed. This could cause the breakdown of more skin cells, or make your breakout spread.

4. Yet another reason you’ll want to stay hydrated.

You need water for every other organ in your body to function properly. What makes you think that your skin would be any different? Water provides your skin with a strong base for maintaining sweat and oil glands functionality, both of which aid in the ability to regulate the health of our skin. Water optimizes your skin health.

This is also part of the reason that alcohol will age your skin faster. Alcohol both dehydrates the body and causes inflammation. If you are going to drink alcohol it is best to make sure that you balance it with many glasses of water.

5. Avoid the sugars.

Sugars have a very negative effect on the collagen, elastin, and protein fibers in our body and those are the main contributors to young and healthy skin. By avoiding sugars, your body will be able to produce these properly and keep your skin looking younger longer.

6. Work on a steady sleep schedule.

Most Americans aren’t getting the proper amount of sleep every night and it’s not just affecting their brain’s ability to function at it’s best. Your skin does most of its repairing and rejuvenating while you are asleep. Not getting enough sleep makes your skin look dull and less lifelike.

As you can see, making small adjustments to your daily routines and habits can help you achieve healthier and younger-looking skin. While we want to provide you with facts that can help you change the appearance of your skin on a daily basis, Luxiny also has products that can help you keep your skin looking younger and help you reach your skincare goals. Visit our website today to find out more!

It’s no surprise that hyaluronic acid is such a popular product for skincare. It provides the hydration and nutrients that our skin begins to lose as we age. It helps replenish hydration, improves the elasticity of the skin, and helps reduce the appearance of wrinkles. However, hyaluronic acid can come in different molecular weights and providing different effects on your skin.

Hyaluronic Acid is the main component of the extracellular matrix in our body. It is one of the key players in tissue regeneration and repair. It’s kind of obvious that when hyaluronic acid depletes in our bodies as we get older, that we would begin to lose the elasticity in our skin and wrinkles would begin to appear. This is why skincare companies have created hyaluronic acid serums, to help us battle this issue and allow it to be reabsorbed into the skin. Some serums are more beneficial than others, simply based on the molecular size of hyaluronic acid that they use.

Luxiny has chosen to use high molecular weight hyaluronic acid because unlike a low molecular weight it contains healing properties and does not elicit an inflammation response. Our high molecular weight serum provides our customers with the following benefits:

• Instant volume that plumps the skin
• Moisture surge
• Replenished suppleness
• Smoothed fine lines and wrinkles

To learn more about our products visit our website. As always, we are a cruelty-free company that prides itself on not testing on animals. Our serum is derived from plants, allowing us to maintain our standards for natural or naturally derived ingredients.