This Will Save Your Skin This Summer

Although we all love the summer months, the dryness and warmth can bring some challenges for the skin on our faces and bodies and even lead to cracked heels.

One of the easiest ways to stay ahead of summer skin stress is to nourish your skin with vitamins both inside and out. Our Simply Skin Vitamin Oil is packed with natural oils rich in vitamins and antioxidants to hydrate, protect, and revive the skin on your face and neck.

We’ll share more on that below, but first — let’s break down the essential nutrients your skin craves this season…

✨ Adding some vitamins to our facial skin

Many of us take vitamin supplements and taking care of your skin should be an essential part of your health regimen, remembering that it is your body’s largest organ.

There are four essential vitamins for your skin

Vitamin D 
Vitamin D is easily made when sunlight is absorbed by your skin. When this happens, cholesterol converts to vitamin D which is then taken up your liver and kidneys and transported throughout the body to help create healthy cells. This includes the skin, where vitamin D plays an important role in skin tone. It may even help with psoriasis.

✅ Aim for up to 20 minutes of daily sun exposure on as much skin as possible (but we recommend shielding your face from direct sunlight).

Vitamin C 
Vitamin C is found in high levels in both the epidermis (outer skin) and the dermis (inner skin), it has excellent antioxidant properties, and its role in collagen production helps keep your skin healthy. 

Supplementing with Vitamin C can:

• Decrease cell damage
• Support wound healing
• Help reduce wrinkles
• Support natural collagen synthesis

🧴 Suggested dose: 1,000 mg per day

Vitamin E 
An antioxidant that helps protect against sun damage by absorbing harmful UV light when applied to the skin. This photo-protection helps minimize dark spots and wrinkles.

🥜 Good sources: almonds, hazelnuts, sunflower seeds
💊 Recommended intake: ~15 mg/day

Simply Skin Vitamin Oil
A one-of-a-kind nutritional blend of oils to feed the delicate skin on your face.

• Rich in antioxidants, vitamins, minerals, and omega fatty acids

• Formulated from cold-pressed and expeller-pressed precious oils

• Small molecular structure for deep skin penetration

👉 Use regularly on your face and neck.

👣 Don't Forget Your Feet

H-Cracked Heels Formula
Cracked heels are more common in women. When the skin on the bottom of your feet becomes too dry, it can split open, leaving painful cracks.

Common Causes:

• Dehydration / not drinking enough water

• Not moisturizing feet

• Hot baths or long soaks

• Harsh, drying soaps

• Walking barefoot or wearing sandals/flip-flops

• Scrubbing dry feet

How to Help:

• Moisturize 2–3 times a day

• Soak and exfoliate: Soak in lukewarm soapy water for ~20 minutes. Use a loofah, foot scrubber, or pumice stone to remove hard skin. Pat feet dry.

• Apply H-Cracked Heels Formula and cover with socks overnight. This helps the formula deeply penetrate, moisturize, and relieve pain from cracks.

• Avoid dry scrubbing, which can worsen damage.

💛 Keep Your Skin Happy All Summer Long

Stay cool, stay glowing. ☀️

SOURCES:

Causes of cracked heels. (n.d.)
http://www.ipfh.org/foot-conditions/foot-conditions-a-z/cracked-heels/causes-of-cracked-heels/. (Accessed, July 12, 2021).

Cracked heels. (n.d.)
https://www.foothealthfacts.org/conditions/cracked-heels. (Accessed, July 12, 2021).

Dermatologists' top tips for relieving dry skin. (n.d.)
https://www.aad.org/public/skin-hair-nails/skin-care/dry-skin. (Accessed, July 12, 2021).

Dry skin: Diagnosis and treatment. (n.d.)
https://www.aad.org/public/diseases/dry-sweaty-skin/dry-skin#treatment. (Accessed, July 12, 2021).