Your skin is under attack, and even the best skin care products can only fight half the battle. The other half is about your general health and wellbeing. Specifically, managing stress.
Stress is bad news for your skin because:
- It reduces your defences
- Sparks more damage
- Disrupts repair efforts
- Inflames everything
Great skin care and some practical stress reduction can make a world of difference.
So, why is stress so bad?
Stress can weaken your skin's barrier function. It reduces your skin's defences by reducing essential lipids and proteins. This makes your skin more permeable. That means it's more susceptible to irritation, dryness, and infections.
Stress also triggers the release of cortisol, sparking more damage. Cortisol creates a lot of damage because it can increase oil production. This leads to clogged pores and acne breakouts.
If your skin is trying to send in reinforcements, stress gets in the way of that too. It reduces how much collagen and elastin you produce. That slows down the skin's ability to repair and regenerate. It will take longer to heal wounds and blemishes. Collagen and elastin is what makes your skin firm and youthful. That means more wrinkles, fine lines, and sagging skin.
And if stress wasn't done yet, chronic stress can lead to inflammation. What we like to call, setting everything on fire. Inflammation makes conditions like eczema, psoriasis, and rosacea worse. It's hot, dry and leaves everything scarred.
Stress wages a war on your skin. It outsmarts your defences, mounts an attack, cuts off the reinforcements and sets fire to what's left.
The best solution is to reduce your stress. That's half the battle won and then all that's left is a simple, no fuss skincare routine. We know where you can find one of those wink wink.