Wrinkles don’t have to be your boogeyman. With simple routines everyone can do at home, you can greatly reduce wrinkles and other signs of aging, like fine lines and dark spots.
You need discipline and a few simple tricks to ensure your skin receives the best vitamins, minerals, and other ingredients that gently nourish your mature skin.
Once you have a routine that works for you, you won’t ever obsess over wrinkles again. Let’s take a look at the best routines you should start incorporating into your regimen today.
1. Exfoliate Dead Skin
Exfoliating your skin at least once a week is important, but you should do it more often for best results. Exfoliating helps remove dead cells, which can reduce the appearance of wrinkles and make your skin more radiant.
Scrubs are easy to make at home and don’t require specialized ingredients. Try using baking soda and coconut oil for a quick scrub, but be mindful of exfoliants like sugar and salt that are too harsh and may damage the sensitive skin on your face.
2. Use a Gentle Cleanser & Toner
You should cleanse your skin every morning and night. Avoid harsh chemicals and pick a gentle cleanser and toner, like micellar water, that doesn’t dry your skin and prepares it for your moisturizer.
A gentle cleanser can make your skin look plump before applying your moisturizer or anti-aging hydrating cream. I like to make my own natural micellar water using a couple of hydrosols. This way, I know what’s in the product, and I’m not using any harsh drying chemicals on my face.
3. Hydrate Your Skin With a Natural Face Serum
A face serum is the best way to ensure you’re protecting your face from the effects of aging. Use it twice daily and pick an anti-aging serum with powerful ingredients like vitamin C if browsing at the store.
My rosehip and camellia mature skin serum is a healthier option. It combines the naturally occurring vitamin C in rosehip with squalane and camellia seed oils for the best nourishing and hydrating effect on mature skin.
4. Use a Face Roller
Face rollers are usually made of “healing stones” — namely amethyst, jade, or rose quartz — that help reduce irritation, redness, and discoloration. You shouldn’t use face rollers on their own. Always use them with skincare serums to gently massage those into your skin.
A rolling massage is great for mature skin because it improves blood circulation, lessens creases, and reduces puffiness. It also delivers moisturizing and hydrating serums to your thirsty skin.
5. Use An Effective Natural Moisturizer
You should moisturize your skin every time you cleanse it, especially after using a scrub. Mature skin needs lots of moisture to mitigate fine lines and wrinkles. Look for products that contain vitamin E, argan oil, and unctuous nut butters like shea butter.
Alternatively, make your natural moisturizer for mature skin with natural oils and luxuriate in a divinely scented cream that also keeps wrinkles at bay.
6. Apply Squalane Oil
Squalane oil — not to be confused with squalene oil, which our skin naturally has — is an oil found in olives. It’s ideal for mature skin because it fights free radicals, hydrates the skin, improves collagen production, and increases skin elasticity.
In addition, squalane oil also reduces the appearance of fine lines. It also enhances the intake of other skincare products, which is a win-win if you add it to your homemade face serum alongside rose oil or aloe vera.
7. Use a Natural Over Night Wrinkle Cream
A wrinkle cream is not a new concept. People have always tried to minimize the look of their wrinkles and lines. You can always use store-bought creams with ingredients like castor oil, vitamin E, and argan oil.
You can also take things into your own hands and make a homemade wrinkle cream. Our recipe combines argan and avocado oils, calendula, and lemon essential oil to tackle the pesky 50% of wrinkles that aren’t the result of your genetics.
8. Apply Under Eye Cream
The skin around your eyes is one of the most sensitive and line-prone on your face and needs special attention. As a result, your eyes are the first part of your face that show signs of aging and need extra care.
Once again, ensure your eye cream has hyaluronic acid as one of its first ingredients. Alternatively, try our green tea and cucumber eye gel recipe that combines cucumber hydrosol and green tea to soothe your eyes and tighten the skin.
9. Combat Hyperpigmentation
Hyperpigmentation is a phenomenon scientifically proven to occur due to the aging process. Much like wrinkles, you can’t cure it, but you have effective ways to reduce it.
Ingredients like carrot seed essential oil and primrose oil can reduce the difference between the darker spots on your skin and the rest of your face. If you want to tackle things with a DIY project, here’s a simple recipe you can make to reduce hyperpigmentation.
10. Sleep on a Silk Pillowcase
You may have heard about using a silk pillowcase to prevent tangles or frizz if you have wavy or curly hair. However, it goes further than that. Silk prevents sleep lines from forming on your face when you’re asleep — giving new meaning to the expression “beauty sleep.”
A silk pillowcase is also gentle on your face and promotes relaxation, so using one as part of your mature skincare routine can’t do any harm.
11. Detox Your Skin With a Face Mask
Depending on your skin type, you may need to use a face mask more frequently, but the rule of thumb is to use one once a week.
Also, ensure the ingredients are suitable for mature skin because some face masks — like those containing vitamin C, glycolic, or salicylic acid — can be harsh on sensitive, mature skin. Instead, use calming ingredients that leave your skin feeling renewed and soft.
12. Hydrate From the Inside
Hydrating from the inside doesn’t miraculously become necessary when we grow older. Instead, getting enough hydration helps us maintain hydrated, plump skin at any age.
However, it’s important to pick drinks packed with ingredients that help prevent wrinkles and sagginess, like matcha, peppermint, nettle, and chamomile. When infused in tea, these ingredients brighten your skin, reduce inflammation, and keep you hydrated inside and outside.
13. It’s Important To Look After Your Skin Naturally!
Experts say the global skincare market will be worth $273.3 billion by 2023. But making your skin look and feel fantastic doesn’t have to break the bank! Homemade skincare recipes can deliver the same or better results than big-name brands, often at a fraction of the cost. From natural cleansers and specially formulated face scrubs to eye serums and lip balms, you’ll discover an array of recipes you can make at home to combat the signs of aging or use as gifts for loved ones!
Let’s look at 16 Homemade Skincare Recipes For Glowing Skin
14. Home Remedies For Glowing Skin Using Kitchen Cupboard Ingredients
Those of us who enjoy cooking have a stocked pantry. Yet, even if you don’t cook a lot, you could have kitchen ingredients to hand that make several home remedies for glowing skin. You may have always wanted to try DIY natural recipes. From homemade masks and scrubs to soaks — the sky is the limit.
Let’s look At: 18 Home Remedies For Glowing Skin Using Kitchen Cupboard Ingredients
