Dry skin needs care and nourishment to regain a soft, smooth texture. While using a quality natural moisturizer is the easiest way to get moisture, you can also try some At-Home dry skin remedies such as:

#1 - Olive oil or Hydrophyllic Oil from CA BOTANA is a great at-home skin care ingredient. You can add it to your bathwater or apply it after a bath or shower and the oil will naturally and effectively hydrate dry skin.

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#2 - Ambrosia Aromatic Wellness Soak can also soothe your skin during bath time. Add a cup of it to your bathwater as a home remedy to alleviate itchy, irritated, dry skin in a natural way.

#3 - Use regularly Doctor Schwab Ginkgo Mask. Apply it to your face and leave it on for 15 to 20 minutes. Rinse off the mixture first with warm water; then splash your face with cold water to close up pores.

Hydrate dry skin

#4 - Almond Oil softens skin and acts as a free radical exchanger due to its high levels of essential fatty acids like in Doctor Schwab Ginkgo Mask.

Remember, when choosing home remedy ingredients, you want to treat your dry skin with rich, creamy, and greasy emollients, or just make it easy on yourself and get one of Doctor Schwab all-natural line of moisturizers.

Summer time is vacation time for your mind, body and soul, but not your skin.  It’s the time of year you have to be even more vigilant of your skincare for you and your family.  As discussed in our June blog series, Ultraviolet sunrays can wreak havoc on your skin.  Unprotected sun exposure and sunburns increase your risk of skin cancers such as melanoma.  So follow these simple tips and have a great summer.

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Tip 1: Limit your time in direct sunlight to 15 minutes a day.  This might be hard while outdoors, so bring your umbrellas, hats and sunscreen.

Tip 2: Hats are very fashionable and these days the bigger the better.  So dawn a big hat and your favorite sarong on the beach or a fun colorful fedora on the way to the mall.  I always wear a hat while driving my convertible.

Tip 3: Wear sunscreen everywhere, including your face, hands, ears, lips and feet.  You want to select sunscreen with SPF 30 or greater with UVA and UVB protection.  Although water-resistant sounds good, there really is no such thing so don’t waste your time or money. Consider Doctor D. Schwab Umbrella Moisturizers with Environmental Protection.

Tip 4: Use skincare with peptides in them, such as Dr.Schwab’s Alphasome line of skincare. Peptides improve skin’s appearance by stimulating collagen and elastin production.

Tip 5: Eat red and orange foods like tomatoes and orange peppers—which contain antioxidants and offer natural protection from the sun.  They may also help cells repair after sun damage, so keep them around all year long.

Products to help keep your skin looking healthy this summer

Hope those tips help you and your family enjoy the summer with beautiful smiles and skin!

Check out these great moisturizers to help against dry summer skin here.

Liposomes are tiny artificially prepared bubbles made up of a lipid bilayer that are used to deliver ingredients in the body. They can be composed of naturally-derived phospholipids which mimic the properties of biological cells.

These spherical structures are useful because they can encapsulate active ingredients and are therefore used in skin care and for drug delivery. Liposomes effectively deliver the active ingredients to the sites of action by fusing with the similarly structured biological cells.

Skincare products for healthier looking skin

Liposomes are used as an advanced soy-based Phospholipid delivery system that encapsulates active ingredients and enables them to reach the targeted cells for superior product performance. The development of this patent pending micro-emulsion skincare technology called Alphasomes® has led to the accurate and effective delivery of valuable, yet volatile active anti-aging ingredients that penetrate deep into the skin's tissue, releasing the ingredients where they can provide the most benefit.  Liposomes with Ginkgo Biloba Extract and Peptides, combined in an enriched anti-aging serum such as G.S. Ginkgosome® Day Time Serum can provide immediate, visible improvement in skin tone, texture and firmness.

Doctor D. Schwab Liposome enriched skincare products

Liposomes are good for any skin type and in general they help reduce wrinkles, hide lines and dramatically enhance the moisture retaining capacity of the skin.

Dry skin on the face can happen any time or season of the year.  First let’s identify some common reasons for dry skin on the face.

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-Too dry or cold weather with low humidity
-Taking baths too often, especially with too hot water.
-Harsh and corrosive effects of some soaps and lotions which may have harmful synthetic ingredients.
-UV rays. In some severe cases UV rays can be the reason of age spots and melanoma.
-Alcohol
-Smoking
-Caffeine
-Some medications which can disrupt the delicate PH balance of the individual’s skin.
-Some problems in hormonal balance can also be caused by specific medications.
-Lack of vitamins A, Omega 3, Zinc and B complex.
-Lack of liquid in the person’s organism (this may happen if the person sweats too much but does not drink water enough).
-Age. With the pass of the time our oil-producing glands are not so active.

What can you do to help fight your dry skin

Now that you have identified the reason for your face's dry skin, I want to offer you several simple actions which may help you to get rid of the dry skin.

-Drink plenty of water.
-Apply a quality, all natural moisturizer to your skin, such as Doctor Schwab’s AM-PM Moisturizer.
-Eat foods with Vitamins A, Omega 3, Zinc, and B Complex.
-Keep consumption of alcohol and caffeine to moderate levels, like one glass or cup a day.
-Don’t smoke—Just don’t do it!

I think you get the idea.  Identify the cause of dry skin on your face and avoid it.

Find the right moisturizer to help get rid of dry skin on your face here.

Peptides are the building blocks of proteins. Built from amino acids, peptides provide many of the structures on the body--including hair, skin, muscles, tendons, and ligaments. They form the hemoglobin in the blood, carrying oxygen throughout the body to muscles and organs. Peptides are also the main building blocks for enzymes that catalyze chemical reactions for cell functions, and they provide the signals on the outer surface of cells so your body can communicate systemically. Peptides have many uses, and most of them are necessary for life.

While there are a variety of different peptide complexes, a couple of ways they work for your skin are:

Produce Collagen - Collagen, made up of long strands of amino acids, is really the main building block of skin, giving the skin its smooth, and youthful appearance.

Strengthen Capillaries & Increase Microcirculation — Peptides
themselves are constructed from various combinations of the 22 unique amino
acids (AAs) found in the body.  Depending on the number of amino acids involved, these peptide structures go by different names: oligopeptides (2-20 AAs), peptides (fewer than 50 AAs), and proteins (50 or more AAs). When it comes to caring for delicate skin, peptides help by protecting the integrity of elastin & collagen bundles (two essential elements of the skin), and minimizing the impact of free radical damage, these powerful peptides work to improve skin firmness and elasticity.

Results include: improved skin compactness, reduced wrinkles, increased skin tonicity and increased skin firmness.

What makes Dr. Schwab products unique?
Dr. Schwab products utilize unique formulations and employ bioactive peptides along with ultra-pure botanicals in critical combinations to synergistically promote skin healing and rejuvenation, resulting in Doctor D. Schwab's innovative Anti-Aging products.

To learn more about Dr. Schwab’s Alphasome^TM nanotechnology delivery system that ensures maximum penetration of high-quality peptides for healthy, youthful skin go here.