How To Eat Your Way To Radiant Skin

What Healthy Eating Has To Do With Skincare

A morning and evening beauty  routine can help with a lacklustre skin and leave you with a hydrated and youthful complexion. However, radiant skin first starts from within. Our skin is the largest organ in the body, which means that the water and food you put in your body helps to replenish your cells with nutrients and antioxidants. 

A healthy balanced diet, which will typically include at least 5-a-day of a variety of both fruits and vegetables, will provide a good supply of antioxidants. These will not only nourish your skin, but it will also protect and repair your skin from any pollutants which could have caused damage. Your skin works in cycles and this helps with its renewal and repair, the right nutrition helps to give your skin what it needs to maintain its radiance and beauty.

What Should I Eat To Take Care Of My Face?

When it comes to knowing what to eat to take care of your face, just think about the nutrients from fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds. These antioxidants and vitamins are what will nourish your skin. Whilst also helping to hydrate, diminish the appearance of fine lines, wrinkles, diminishing blemishes and aiding in uneven skin tone. Here are what food makes your skin glow:

1. Eat Your 5-A-Day

Fruits and vegetables are packed full of essential vitamins and antioxidants that help to brighten the skin as well as protect against free radicals. Free radicals can be found outside with pollution, from an unhealthy lifestyle such as smoking or damage from the sun's UV rays. 

By eating enough fruit and vegetables it can help with any damage done to your cells which is vital for healthy skin cell development and a radiant complexion.

2. Get Glowing Skin With Vitamin C

Eating foods that are packed full of  vitamin C help support your immune system and promote radiant skin as well as tackle acne and blemishes. There are fruits and vegetables that you can eat to get enough vitamin C into your body, such as blackcurrants, blueberries, broccoli, guava, kiwi fruits, oranges, papaya, strawberries and sweet potatoes.

As well as brightening your skin, Vitamin C is a great source to help your body produce collagen. The protein in collagen helps to keep your skin glowing and youthful as it helps to support and nourish your skin. 

3. Hydrate Your Skin With Healthy Fats & Omega 3

The right fats and omega 3 are a natural way to nourish and hydrate the skin, keeping it moisturised from the inside. You can find these essential fats in avocados, oily fish, nuts and seeds. 

Also the fatty acids found in these foods are  anti-inflammatory and can help nourish your skin leaving it healthy. Omega-3 can also be found in  oily fish, such as salmon and plant based sources including flaxseed and chia seeds.

4. Don’t Forget Your Water

Keep your skin hydrated and make sure to drink enough water. It is recommended to drink between 6 and 8 glasses a day, this helps to provide the skin with enough moisture to stay flexible. Even mild dehydration may leave your skin looking dry, tired and slightly grey. 

Make it easy for yourself and keep a bottle of water around you so you easily sip on it throughout the day. Fruits and vegetables like watermelon, courgette and cucumber,with a high volume of water are also a great way to keep your skin hydrated.

Skincare Routine For Radiant Skin

The perfect skincare routine will brighten your skin, leaving you looking radiant and refreshed. Here are a few products that will boost your complexion and give you a youthful glow:

Glycolic Cleanser

The SkinCeuticals Glycolic Renewal Cleanser is a foaming gel cleanser that gently exfoliates the skin, buffing away dead skin cells. This helps to reveal a brighter and youthful skin, reducing  pigmentation and helping the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. 

Balancing Toner

The SUZANOBAGIMD™ Balancing Toner will leave your skin refreshed as well as eliminating impurities, gently restoring the skin's natural pH. This helps to gently brighten your complexion, leaving your skin smooth and clean.

Hyaluronic Serum

The key to glowing skin is hydrated skin and adding in a hyaluronic acid can help to nourish dry and dehydrated skin. The MZ Skin’s Hyaluronic Acid Hydrating Serum is carefully blended so it's lightweight and suitable for all skin types. The formula smooths, plumps and softens for a naturally dewy finish.

Brightening Serum

Vitamin C is a great way to boost and brighten your skin's complexion. The Murad Vitamin-C Glycolic Brightening Serum is  the ultimate serum to brighten your skin, it is full of antioxidants, and can help with hyperpigmentation, dullness and uneven skin tone. The glycolic acid helps increase cell renewal turnover by removing dead skin cells, which leaves the skin smooth, clear and radiant. 

Brightening Face Cream

The Dr Barbara Sturm Brightening Face Cream has been formulated to brighten your skin, combatting a lacklustre and uneven complexion. It is packed full of antioxidants that help to minimise signs of pigmentation, as well as leaving your skin hydrated for 24 hours.  

Hydrating Mask

The Dr Dennis Gross Hyaluronic Marine Hydrating Modeling Mask transforms your skin leaving you with a radiant complexion and healthy glow after one use. It is a deeply hydrating treatment that helps improve skin’s water holding capacity, helping with the  appearance of dry surface lines, leaving your skin firmer, supple, more radiant skin.