There’s a reason that GP’s tell us to drink 8 glasses of water a day, and its not just so we go to the toilet more often! Drinking water ‘cleans out your system’ and the includes (for a rather large part) all your pores, it moisturises your skin from the inside out rather than by applying products to the outside trying to get them in, and it also opens up your skin and flushes out all the oils, greases, and skin cells that build up and accumilate every day. Sounds tastey eh?
Another way to hydrate your skin (unsurprisingly) is to soak in water, as your skin absorbs the water. Kind of like the opposite of sweating, sort of. An excellent way to do this is with a swimming pool, if you are financially able enough to buy a swimming pool and stick it in your back garden, then you’re pretty much sorted! But for those AS financially able there are alternatives like a swim-spa, which is essentially a very large hot tub that spews a current of water which you swim against. Granted they still aren’t cheap, but at around a quarter the price of a full blown pool – its still a big difference.
Of course swimming pools aren’t perfect, ironically the chlorine actually dries out your skin – so the best thing to do is use a swimming pool with a balanced chemical mix that hasn’t been diluted too strongly. Public pools typically have very high swimming pool chemical levels due to the volume of people who use them, when using a private pool or hot tub typically you can be a lot more conservative with how many additives are floating around with you.
So if you’re ready to smoothen out that face for the summer, or soften up those legs, try hydrating yourself a bit more. Water does wonders!
