SUPERFOODS FOR DRY SKIN

One of the most common complaints during winter is related to dry skin, but dry skin can happen at any time of the year. Apart from the obvious moisturizing solution, look at your diet to added help. Foods for the dry season are sweet, sour, salty, heavy, oily, moist foods provided you can digest them well.

The following are superfoods that will sustain you all winter long and help not only your avoid constipation, dry skin, hair and nails, but also
cracking joints and stress:

Avocadoes

Beets

Brussels sprouts (coat withghee or other oil as they can cause gas)

Carrots

Chilies

Garlic

Ginger

Honey

Nut butters

Oils: sesame, avocado, almond

Pumpkin, its seeds and oil

Winter squash

Sweet potatoes

Eat them in combination with other healthy foods. And at the risk of sounding like a broken record I say again: avoid crackers, dry cereal, cold foods and drinks, salads, caffeinated and alcoholic beverages and soak your dried fruits before eating them.

Recipe
From the first list, I have concocted a facial smoothie that any dehydrated skin cell will absorb like water by sand.

¼ fresh avocado

¼ boiled sweet potato (preferably still warm)

½ tsp unpasteurized honey

1 pinch of chili powder

1 pinch of ginger

1 tbsp of sesame oil (preferably warm or room temperature)

8 drops total of the following essential oils:

thyme, spikenard, bergamot, cinnamon according to your scent preference.

Mash everything into a creamy smoothy. Add a few drops more oil if too thick for your liking.

Clean the skin with a warm face cloth, apply generously, leave on for 11 minutes or more, rinse off with warm water (no soap on the skin; one shampoo for your hair).

This quantity will cover your face and other dry body parts or your hair. Use it all in one sitting as this combo will oxidize quickly.

A fun thing to do is to rate the comfort of your skin before you start and do it again afterwards to compare the improvement.