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Just the term
"night cream" can summon up visions of Fifties housewives
slathered in a thick layer of greasy vanishing cream,
rollers in place, ready for a good night’s sleep. But
that image of night-time skincare is out of date, as modern
formulations are light, easily absorbed and contain active
ingredients that seem better suited to a chemistry lab
than our faces.
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Gone are the
days when sleeping was a passive beauty process. Now those
precious eight hours are the best time to pamper your
skin and hair.The latest generation of night creams contain
active ingredients that help skin to retain a healthy
moisture balance, without the need for oils and creams
that could block the pores.
But despite these high - tech formulations, the beauty
world is still divided as to whether we still need night
creams at all - some skincare companies simply don’t offer
them. Other companies like Clarins, Estee Lauder, Elizabeth
Arden and Lancaster offer specific night creams and argue
that your skin’s needs differ at night.
Every 24 hours, our body clock divides our biological
processes into two distinctly different phases - an active
period when we are awake and functioning, during which
our bodie’s resources of oxygen and nutrients are being
constantly depleted, and a resting and repairing phase
when we are asleep and our body can call on stored resources
to renew itself.
Research by the big beauty companies has confirmed that
while water loss through the skin is greatest at night,
so is our skin’s ability to absorb active ingredients
from whatever cream we apply before we sleep.
As a result, night creams often contain higher doses of
active ingredients that might go to waste during daylight
hours, such as Vitamins C and E which fight free radicals,
fruit acids which exfoliate away dead skin cells, ceramides
which help repair the barrier function of the skin, and
NMF’s that help to rehydrate it.
It’s almost as if our skin is too busy doing it’s job
of protecting our bodies from the outside world during
the day. At night, however, it repairs and renews itself.
So it makes sense that a day cream should offer protection
and a night cream should offer treatment.
Night creams are invaluable to someone with very dry skin
because they primarily work at preventing the loss of
water through the skin while we sleep. But they also offer
the best way to try a specific treatment, including the
anti-ageing lotion, retinol or fruit - acid cream.
It’s however not just your face that can benefit from
a little night - time pampering. The skin on your body
also renews and repairs itself while you sleep. Body lotions
are more tempting at night because you don’t have to get
dressed minutes afterwards. Apply them all over, concentrating
on elbows, knees, shins, hands and feet .
Finally, take advantage of the time spent sleeping to
try a deep conditioning hair treatment which you wouldn't
normally have time for during the day. Don’t wash your
hair first, just comb the conditioner through the last
few inches of your dry hair to ensure the ingredients
are concentrated and protect your pillow with a hand towel.
In the morning just shampoo and rinse as usual.
Voila! Did you ever think you could look beautiful by
doing nothing else but sleep a good eight hours? And now
you know why Linda Evangelista was once quoted as saying
- " I refuse to get out of bed for less than ten thousand
Dollars a day...!"
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