Wondering how to get your best skin overnight? The term "beauty sleep" is true. When your head hits the pillow and you slip into a deep sleep, your skin goes into overdrive, repairing itself and repairing the daily damage caused by environmental stressors. Sleep is the best time to fight free radicals and troublesome skin conditions – without lifting a finger. Here's how you can maximize your beauty sleep with night creams from Eminence Organic Skin Care.
What happens to your skin when you sleep?
Did you know that sleep gives the body time to repair damage accumulated during the day from stressors as it does some vital maintenance? Yes, skin repair is another reason to get eight hours of beauty sleep every night.
1. Your skin goes into repair mode
What Really Happens When You Sleep Soundly? Your skin gets to work, repairs and regenerates. Melatonin kicks in and helps counter the negative effects of sun damage from UV rays and pores clogged with pollution. Human growth hormone peaks and accelerates your skin's ability to repair and regenerate. And your body's stem cells multiply and enable higher cell turnover as aging skin cells are replaced with new ones. While this work occurs at all stages of your sleep cycle, most of the skin repair and regeneration occurs during REM sleep. Hence, getting the right amount of eyes closed is important to keep your skin in its best shape.
2. Skin care products become more effective
At night, your body temperature rises and your skin becomes more permeable, making it easier for it to soak up the active ingredients in the night creams that are part of your skin care routine. Since your body no longer has to focus on fighting the harmful environmental stressors it is exposed to during the day, it can focus its attention on the task of repairing itself. StyleCraze says, "Any product you use at night is far more effective at moisturizing the skin, reducing fine lines and wrinkles, and brightening your skin tone."
3. Your skin loses moisture overnight
If ingredients that are good for you can get into your epidermis, essential moisture can also escape. The measurement of this water loss (known as transepidermal water loss or TWL) is greatest during sleep and often leaves dry, dehydrated skin in the morning. Because your skin loses more water when you sleep, it's important to keep your skin's moisture barrier intact with a deeply moisturizing, replenishing night cream.
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How to improve your beauty sleep with Eminence Organics
Now that you know the importance of closing an eye, it's time to learn how to achieve youthful looking skin (using Eminence Organics overnight treatments).
1. Fight the effects of pollution overnight
The best time to tackle the aging effects of environmental stressors like harmful UV rays and pollution is when your skin is in repair mode. When you sleep, your metabolism drops and your body doesn't produce as many free radicals as it does when you are awake, so your skin can focus on rest.
Improve the hard work your skin does with the Eminence Organic Lotus Overnight Detoxifying Treatment. This lightweight treatment contains moisturizing lotus, strong microgreens, and moisturizing jojoba oil balls to melt down. In combination, these ingredients seal in moisture, prevent transepidermal water loss and protect your skin from drying out from environmental stressors overnight.
Lotus specifically refines the appearance of pores and provides antioxidants that improve the visible signs of aging. This unique ingredient makes the skin look stronger and more elastic. The Lotus Overnight Detoxifying Treatment is formulated with Detoxifying microgreens complex, another great combination for your skin, consisting of broccoli, radishes, clover sprouts and Detoxophan made from Swiss cress sprouts. This blend contains Vitamin C, Beta Carotene, Vitamin E, and Vitamin K to help combat the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. Finally, jojoba oil balls add extra moisture to your skin and help lock in moisture by creating a protective barrier against external elements.
To use the Lotus Overnight Detoxifying Treatment, use your fingertips to apply a thin layer of the treatment to cleansed skin over the entire face and neck area. You can leave this on to go to sleep. Apply a thicker layer for extra hydration.
2. Aim for dark spots on your face while you sleep
Overnight is also the best time to target certain skin conditions. Whether you're struggling with fine lines and wrinkles, or those pesky dark spots on your complexion, you can get faster results with targeted nightly treatments.
Our Bright Skin Overnight Correcting Cream works overtime to remove the appearance of dark spots while you sleep. This ultra-rich night cream from our award-winning VitaSkin ™ Bright Skin collection is our most powerful skin-lightening botanical blend to date. With main ingredients such as Punarnava root, Swiss alpine plant extracts and Natural hydroquinone alternative Made from African potatoes and the tare tree, Bright Skin Overnight Correcting Cream visibly – and naturally – reduces the appearance of uneven skin tone.
Which Eminence Organics products are part of your beauty sleep skin care regimen? Let us know in the comments below and join the conversation on social media.
This post was originally published in June 2017 and has been updated for accuracy and completeness.