What are Night Creams For?
As your body gets older, your ability to produce collagen and young, healthy skin, goes down, resulting in increased creases and wrinkles in your face. Wrinkles are natural and very much a part of life, but that doesn’t mean you want them. Lotions, moisturizers, wrinkle creams and eye creams are everywhere on the market, all looking out for improved skin health. Night creams have also been said to be successful tools in managing facial wrinkles and blemishes.
Some believe that once a women hits her 30s, she should start using a night wrinkle cream regularly, as she may be starting to show the first signs of aging and wrinkles in her face. If day wrinkle creams and eye creams have given countless women improved, blemish-free skin, then why should they bother considering using a night cream for wrinkles and discolored skin? What’s the difference?
How Night Creams Work
Your body is a machine of wellness while you’re asleep. Your brain is more active and nearly every function of your body works more efficiently when you are off in Dreamland with Mr. Sandman. Among these enhanced bodily functions, is your facial skins ability to absorb active ingredients. Your skin is very good at knowing what is good for it, especially when you’re asleep. As your brain is engaged in REM cycles all night, it is also making sure every part of the body is working properly. Great amounts of healing happens when you’re asleep.
Benefits of Night Creams
Since your skin is absorbing nutrients like a sponge at night, the benefits of regular wrinkle creams are enhanced. If you use a night wrinkle cream, your skin will be soothed, calmed, moisturized, hydrated, nourished and revitalized more effectively. You may also experience better circulation, a finer texture in your skin, boosted collagen and elastin, less sagging, and softer, smoother and more supple skin. Your skin can have improved ability in skin regeneration, so you’ll be looking and feeling better than you would without using night cream.
Tips for Night Cream Use
Like any facial moisturizer or cream, the best results come when your skin is clean. Whether you are using night cream or not, you should always remove any makeup before going to bed. Makeup can clog your pores, and get absorbed into your skin while you’re sleeping. Makeup is meant to be removed. Anyway, wash off your makeup and wash your face with a facial cleanser and water before using a night cream.
Dry your face, and then take an appropriate amount of night cream into your hand (the amount may vary, consult the label on the night cream) and dab it onto your face with your third or fourth finger. Night creams should be dabbed, not rubbed into the skin. Do not apply night creams near the eyes. Night wrinkle creams have more potent formulas then those that are meant for the eyes. For maximum eye wrinkle maintenance, use an eye cream around your eyes at night and during the day. Dab the night cream into the facial skin until it is absorbed, and you can’t see it anymore. Then tuck yourself in, and get a lovely night of face rejuvenation while you sleep!
Are Night Creams a Good Choice?
Absolutely. If you’re spending a third of your 24-hour day counting sheep, you may as well be getting fabulous skin while you’re at it! Night time is the perfect time to boost your physical health and beauty because your body is making the best of its more vulnerable state, healing and strengthening itself, and taking in as much good as it can considering the fact that you’re asleep.