The face creams you’re using could actually be drying out your skin. Check out the best homemade moisturizer for dry skin instead.
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Does dehydration cause dry skin?
The thing about dry skin is, that it’s not a dehydration situation. It’s not that you’re not drinking enough water. In fact, the more water you drink, the drier your skin is going to be, because you’re going to dilute your electrolytes.
What causes dry skin?
Dehydration creates a lot of symptoms, but it’s typically not dryness of the skin. Dry skin is low in EFA. Essential fatty acids are both omega-3 and omega-6. But the reason why we are not going to talk about omega-6 is because you already have too many omega-6 fats in their diet: corn oil, soy oil, canola cottonseed oil.
We really are deficient in the omega-3 fatty acids. So when you don’t have enough of this, your skin gets really dry and flaky. There’s actually three types of omega-3. You have EPA and DHA, but you also have a precursor ALA, which can turn into EPA and also DHA to a certain degree. These omega-3 fatty acids actually protect the skin against the sun, its rays, UV light. So they do a lot of things for your skin, not just keeping your skin moist, but they can protect against UV radiation.
You can get omega-3 fatty acids from sardines, cod liver, cod liver oil, fish oils like salmon, algae. But are you going to rub sardine oil or cod liver oil on your face? We don’t think so.
The best homemade face moisturizer for dry skin
We recommend using chia seed and seaweed. So this is simply how you’re going to make this facial mask, which is then going to give you the result of more moisture in your face. So you’ll combine six teaspoons of water in a little container and two teaspoons of chia seed ground down.
We want to grind them up to release some of these oils. Then we’re going to add a teaspoon of seaweed. You can either get seaweed as a powder or you could take a seaweed tablet from a supplement, and open up one of the capsules. Also, you can get some dry seaweed from a little sheet, and crinkle it up, and put it in a teaspoon, and add that to it.
Then we’ll add one teaspoon of olive oil. Make sure it’s extra virgin olive oil. Then we will mix all this up and we will apply this to our face. After that, we will wait 15 minutes and then we’ll wash it off. You’re going to find that the omega-3 fatty acids in the chia seed as well as the seaweed directly goes in the skin. Anything that you put on your skin gets absorbed because all these chemical moisturizers, that have petroleum products, alcohol, chemicals, are going right in like a sponge. So, you really have got to be careful about what you put on your face. Also, it’s very similar to foliar spraying, like spraying nutrients on plants. It goes right into the leaves. The same thing with our bodies.
Obviously, you want to find the real cause of why your skin is dry in the first place. And you do want to start consuming omega-3 fatty acids in your diet.
Recipe
Ingredients:
- 6 tsp water
- 2 tsp chia seeds
- 1 tsp seaweed powder or crushed seaweed sheets
- 1 tsp extra virgin olive oil
Directions:
Grind the chia seeds and mix them into the water, then add the seaweed and olive oil. Mix the ingredients well. Apply the mixture to your face, wait for about 15 minutes, and then wash it off.
Other causes of dry skin
Also, you should isolate other reasons why your skin might be dry. It could be that you’re a smoker, or you’re getting second-hand smoke, or you drink too much alcohol (learn more about how to stop drinking alcohol), or consuming too much sugar, or you’re going through too much stress, which can greatly affect your skin.
And as a side note to that, you have all these friendly microbes on your skin that are supposed to be there. So if you’re using certain types of cleansing creams or cleansing lotions to strip off things from your skin to clean it, you’re also destroying the friendly microbes on your skin, and that can create dryness, or irritation, or redness. Stress can affect the microbes on your skin. For example, antibiotic can also affect your skin from the inside out.
There’s a lot of different reasons why you might have dry skin. It could be that you’re on the typical American diet, where you’re consuming a lot of seed oils, corn oil, soy oil, canola, cotton seed oil, which are very high in omega-6 fatty acids. That will literally create a deficiency of the omega-3 fatty acids (learn more about where can we find a lot of Omega-3). This is actually very common. Also, your soap can dry out your skin.
The tap water from the shower. You’re getting exposed to fluoride and chlorine, which is very harsh on your skin. You should get a filter. And if you wear makeup or certain foundations, and it has petroleum in there or alcohol, that can create the drying out effect.
