Gardening and Skin Health

Daily usage of a sunscreen can reduce the cumulative effect of UV damage.

A Friendly Reminder for Gardeners

Listen up, fellow gardeners! As someone who shares your passion, I completely understand the desire to keep pushing through a project you’re eager to complete. After all, you’ve been at it all morning, and it’s looking fantastic.

Being the responsible person you are, you diligently applied sunscreen to all exposed skin before heading outside. However, my friend, after hours of hard work, you might be feeling the heat. You’re sweating – or should I say, perspiring – and your face is hot and clammy. You convince yourself that just a few more tasks need to be done before taking a break.

But I urge you to stop! Your sun protection may have diminished, or you might have none left at all.

Sunscreen alert! Slather it on every two hours, or even more if you’re making a splash or sweating up a storm!

If you don’t keep your skin protected with a sunscreen, say goodbye to youthful healthy skin.

When the sun’s sizzling like a griddle from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., it’s best to ditch the garden tools and chill indoors with a cool drink. But if you absolutely must play in the dirt during those hours, stick to the shade! Not only will you dodge the sun’s angry rays, but you’ll also keep heat stroke, heat rash, and skin cancer at bay.

Exposing the skin to excessive ultraviolet or UV rays can cause sunburn.  Even if you don’t sunburn, the UV rays penetrate your skin outer layers and travels into the deeper layers, where they can damage your collagen.

This damage is accumulative, you’ll see the results of today’s damage to in the form of future dark spots, wrinkles, sagging skin, loss of collagen, and other skin problem.  Research shows that 80% of skin aging, is the results UV exposure. 

I suggest you go inside, rinse your face off and apply another layer of sunscreen.

Sit for a while and admire your work for 15 minutes or so, giving your sunscreen time to bond with your skin, then go back outside to finish your project. Refreshed, fully protected from the sun’s UVA ray, the aging ray and UVB, the burning ray.

How much water should you drink daily?

Hydrate with a drink of water………

The higher water inputs in one’s regular diet positively impact normal skin hydration physiology.  It has been significantly proven that the correct skin water balance can dramatically reduce the consistent compliant of dry skin.    Lack of water can lead to dehydration

Water flushes out the toxins from our organs. Our skin is one of the biggest organs in the body.  It can help prevent skin problems like eczema, wrinkles, and psoriasis.

According to the National Academies of Sciences, and Medicine, woman need 11.5 cups (2.7 liters) and men 15.5 cups  (3.7 liters).

FACTS ON WATER INTAKE

 

 Gardening reduces stress.

 A study conducted in 1991 on postadolescent acne women,  determined that In adult women with acne, chronic stress increases the secretion of adrenal androgens and results in Sebaceous Hyperplasia.

Dive into your garden fun! It’s like a natural mood booster that kicks depression and anxiety to the curb, while sprinkling a little extra happiness into your day, as the experts say!

Don’t Forget Your Sun Protection…

Ref:

• ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4529263/
• medicalnewstoday.com/articles/306638
• Study of Psychological Stress, Sebum Production and Acne Vulgaris in Adolescents
• U.S. National Library of Medicine   –  Sun’s effect on skin