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Do you know how important it is to sleep adequately in order to wake up feeling good as well as looking beautiful? Getting enough sleep is not only a requisite to postpone fine-lines, sagging skin, wrinkles and other signs of premature aging, it is also crucial for maintaining a healthy, youthful and glowing skin. Getting enough sleep is as important as exercising and dieting for a healthy life.
How Sleeping Adds To Beauty
Sleep researchers have found that getting adequate sleep can help in eliminating puffy eyes and dark-circles. Moreover proper sleep brightens complexion and contributes to weight loss.
The body revitalizes itself by initiating process of repairs and heals. This is one of the reasons why dermatologists suggest use of beauty creams, under eye dark circles treatments, nourishing lotions and anti-aging formulations before bedtime. Thus, you too can improve the way you look by sleeping adequately.
What Happens When You Do Not Have Enough Sleep
A lot of people since ancient times have been talking about beauty sleep but until sometime back the concept had not been scientifically tested. However, after recent surveys, research and test it has been found out that sleeping lowers body temperature, slows up the breathing process, causes heart to beat slowly, increases production of growth hormones and help muscles to relax. If you want to know some more facts related to beauty sleep, read on.
• Inadequate sleep causes stress making you look unattractive and unaware and making you feel irritated. Moreover lack of sleep may also induce water retention causing area around eyes to become puffy, making you look ugly.
• Sleep deprivation also leads to collagen breakdown further promoting wrinkles and sagging skin.
• Lack of sleep also leads to skin conditions like dermatitis, psoriasis and skin inflammation.
• Sleep deprivation also has negative effects on hair. Hair may lose its shine and bounce. Hair follicles may also get damaged due to hormonal imbalance and stress that is caused due to inadequate sleep. Lack of sleep also causes hair loss.
Improve Your Beauty Sleep
Following are some ways to pamper your body, skin and hair so that you can sleep enough and wake up looking refreshed and beautiful.
• You must avoid eating snacks before bedtime. Having bedtime snacks can cause discomfort in stomach, especially while you lay down horizontally. As a result you may not fall asleep early.
• It is recommended that you don't keep your room very hot. Instead keep room comfortable that it is neither too hot nor too cold. Maintain an ideal temperature that is between 65 to 72 degrees Fahrenheit.
• Use of bright lights in bedroom can cause sleep disruption. Use dim lights or the ones that come with adjustable brightness. Bright lights stimulate hormones in similar fashion the Sun does causing you to wake.
• Protect your hair by using an overnight conditioning mask. It will not only protect your hair but also add smoothness and shine to it.
• Over-the-counter medication, sleeping drugs and other medications may interfere with your sleep, so try to stay away from them. Also avoid consuming alcohol, caffeine or food that you are emotionally attached with. Also avoid watching TV before sleeping.
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