Sleeping Beauty: How to get younger overnight

During sleep, 70% of the daily amount of melatonin is produced – a hormone that protects us from stress and premature aging, many diseases (including cancer), helps to look good, and most importantly – age more slowly. The active release of melatonin begins at 21-22 hours and ends at dawn, around 5 am. If at this time we do not sleep, the precious hormone does not enter the body, and we age. So the main recipe for preserving youth and beauty is to go to bed early and wake up early. And to enhance the effect of a night’s rest will help a few simple tricks.

Prepare your face

Cleanse your face before bed. So you help your skin, which is updated at night. Use night creams. They differ from daytime not only in the absence of protective filters, but also in composition. Some substances, such as retinol, work much more efficiently while we sleep.

Apply the cream correctly

Many refuse to use night creams for fear of morning swelling. In order not to deprive the skin of beneficial components, choose a draining product with a light texture (fluid or gel). Apply it two hours before bedtime to unload the subcutaneous vessels and remove excess fluid with toxins. Indeed, due to constant puffiness, the skin is stretched, the oval of the face is blurred, and bags appear under the eyes.

If the face is prone to edema, after applying the cream, lightly press on the bridge of the nose, the points at the wings of the nose, the chin fossa and the back of the head. If the skin is sensitive, avoid rubbing and tapping movements. They will exacerbate the irritation. It is better to heat the cream in the palms of your hands and press them several times to your face. For dull skin, apply the cream with patting movements.

Don’t Forget the Lift

Tightening night creams will strengthen and make out the skin, increasing its density and elasticity. You shouldn’t use them before XNUMX. But a good lifting serum should still be stocked up. If you have a sleepless night, after which you need to look perfect, apply this remedy after make-up remover, before night cream. In the morning, use the serum as a make-up base.

Use masks

Night masks are a modern alternative to cream. Masks contain a high concentration of active substances, are applied to the face in a thick layer, but at the same time have a texture that allows them not to leave stains on the pillowcase and not clog pores. It is recommended to use them a couple of times a week or a course lasting several days, depending on the condition of the skin.

Make time for your eyes

If the eyes are tired during the day, compresses from decoctions of chamomile, linden, verbena or green tea will help soothe them. If in the evening you don’t even have the strength left for this, moisten cotton pads with a cool eye wash and apply to your eyes for a couple of minutes. As a rule, these products contain sedatives that will relieve tension.

At night, silk eye masks are effective. They help to get rid of wrinkles and sleep better, as they do not let light through, namely lighting (both daylight and artificial) reduces the production of the youth hormone melatonin. Silk does not prevent the skin from breathing, as it allows air to pass through. In addition, under the mask, the eyelids relax better.

Make time for your hair

Do not like to wash your hair at night? But in vain. Bacteria, residues of cosmetics and dust accumulated during the day in the hair, hitting the pillow, and then on the face, can provoke inflammation and acne. Especially if you have problem skin. In the morning, hair can be quickly styled by slightly wetting it.

Make time for your hands and feet

If you take care of your hands and feet before going to bed, you can save on visits to the manicure parlor. To do this, rub oil or nail cream into the cuticles at night. Heel Repair Wrap, Sally Hansen, softening the keratinized layers of the skin, will help take care of the heels. If you apply a regenerating cream after it, by morning your heels will be silky even without special procedures.

If your legs are tired or swollen by the evening, take contrast foot baths or hold your legs under a contrast shower for 5 minutes. Then apply a draining gel and place a pillow under your feet at night. In the morning, a light tread is provided to you.

Learn to relax

Do not do anything at night that excites your nervous system: do not watch scary films, try not to be nervous, do not drink coffee and do not engage in active sports. If you go to the gym in the evenings, try to finish your workouts in the pool. Water will help dampen the release of endorphins (activity hormones) after a workout. It is optimal to do water aerobics, Pilates or yoga before going to bed.

Breathing exercises will help you get ready for sleep. Lie on your back, stretch your arms, stretch your legs too and slightly spread apart. Relax all muscles. Inhale gradually as you press your feet and head into the mattress. Repeat five times. Hold your breath for 5 seconds, then exhale slowly. Turn off the lights in advance and keep a blanket handy: by the end of the exercises, you will probably fall asleep.

Take a bath

Subdued lights, quiet music, a switched off phone – these are the necessary conditions for an evening bath. The water temperature should not be higher than 37 degrees. Otherwise, the effect will be just the opposite. You need to be in the water for at least 20 minutes. During this time, she will cool down, lowering her body temperature. And this is just what you need for sleep. Relaxing oils and herbs (valerian, motherwort, lavender, lemon balm) will help enhance the effect.

Prepare a place to sleep

The bedroom is not a place to work. Here you can only rest and relax. Air out the room before going to bed. Draw the curtains. Coolness and darkness are allies of a night’s rest. As well as the blue-violet tones of bed linen, walls, curtains. Pay attention to the position of the body relative to the cardinal points. To sleep soundly, put the head of the bed to the north, in the direction of the earth’s magnetic currents. Researchers from the Berkeley Sleep Center (USA) claim that it is in this position that we are provided with deep and even sleep.

Remember Chinese Medicine

To relax and fall asleep quickly will help the impact on certain points on the body. Knead the inner base of the big one, as well as the tip of the second toe. Here are the very “sleepy” points. They are also on the inside of the wrist, as well as in the mouth, near the lower incisors. A light massage of these areas will help you fall asleep quickly.

Drink tea instead of coffee and alcohol

Even though alcohol is the easiest way to relieve stress, sleeping even after a couple of glasses of wine will be unhealthy. In addition, alcohol provokes swelling, slows down metabolism and has a high calorie content. So do not be surprised if after a week of evening libations, the scales will show a couple of kilograms more.

Instead of coffee or a glass of wine, it is better to brew yourself a cup of herbal tea. Linden, verbena, marjoram, lavender, lemon balm, orange flowers, motherwort, valerian – these soporific teas have a beneficial effect not only on the psyche, but also on the skin, as they help cleanse the body. Herbalist Marie-France Muller offers her recipe for a relaxing tea: 20 g of birch leaves, 20 g of willow buds, 10 g of chamomile flowers, 20 g of poppy seeds, 10 g of lavender and … one black cherry.

Of course, these are not all tips that will help not only to relax, but also to get prettier in the arms of Morpheus. But following them, and most importantly, observing the sleep pattern, you will immediately see the results.