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e call it beauty sleep!)</p><h1 id="20cf">Cell turnover</h1><p id="528e">You’ve likely heard the term cell turnover back in biology class, but let’s do a mini-refresher on what this means for your complexion. Don’t worry — we’ll keep the anatomy and physiology lesson brief for our purposes today. <i>(If you’d like to know more about the skin and how it works, drop me a comment and I can revisit this topic for future posts.)</i></p><p id="7ad7">Your skin is made up of three layers: the epidermis (this is the part that you see), the dermis (just below the surface), and the subcutaneous layer which is the innermost layer that contains the fatty tissues. All three layers are important to the function of your skin and also to your appearance.</p><p id="cc1e">Cell turnover is the process by which fresh new skin cells (<a href="https://www.merckmanuals.com/home/skin-disorders/biology-of-the-skin/structure-and-function-of-the-skin#:~:text=The%20skin%20keeps%20vital%20chemicals,radiation%20emitted%20by%20the%20sun.">keratinocytes</a>) are produced in the deepest basal layers of the skin, then migrate upward toward the surface. These new skin cells keep your skin looking vibrant and smooth.</p><p id="b908">Dead skin cells on the surface of your skin can impede these new skin cells from rising to the surface and keep them covered up can give your skin a dull appearance and your skin an uneven texture. Cleansing the skin and occasional exfoliation will help to keep this cycle of cell turnover moving well. And yes, as you age, the cell turnover cycle slows. As you sleep, the cell turnover process is most active.</p><h1 id="1677">Collagen production</h1><p id="c317">Another nighttime activity of your skin is the production of collagen. <a href="https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/collagen">Collagen</a> is a protein important to your skin because it gives your skin <a href="https://www.healthline.com/health/beauty-skin-care/skin-elasticity#:~:text=Skin%20elasticity%20is%20skin's%20ability,saggy%2C%20crinkled%2C%20or%20leathery.">elasticity</a> and form. If you’ve noticed your skin has a more droopy texture and doesn’t have that bounce-back firm feel that you have been used to, likely a slowing of the collagen production in your skin is partly to blame.</p><p id="e8c8">Collagen is the most abundant protein in your body and for all the benefits that it has to your skin it also helps to keep your body healthy and your bones strong. You can take collagen supplements or use hydrolyzed collagen which is a broken-down form of collagen (to make it easier to be absorbed by skin) that is found in skin creams and skin care products to help your skin get the collagen it needs.</p><p id="9ff7">Healthy collagen production gives you a more youthful look and an overall brighter appearance. As you age your collagen production slows down, causing your skin to sag and form wrinkles, which is why you’ll notice more collagen added to anti-aging skin care products.</p><p id="99c7">Now that we know a little bit about how the skin functions and what it does at night while we are sleeping, let’s take a look at why a night cream helps to support those activities.</p><h1 id="dbf5">Night Cream Helps Your Skin at Night</h1><p id="2ce6">To support these nighttime activities in your skin, night creams are designed to offer support by way of extra moisture, targeted results by a choice of beneficial ingredients, and by delivery of some important nutrients to help your skin be its best. For any type of skin and any type of lifestyle, a night cream will add that extra supportive care for your skin.</p><figure id="a6df"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*q8Zkod7AY_SvZW_qsExVFg.jpeg"><figcaption>Image by <a href="https://pixabay.com/users/photosforyou-124319/?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image&utm_content=4365139">photosforyou</a> from <a href="https://pixabay.com/?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image&utm_content=4365139">Pixabay</a></figcaption></figure><h1 id="ba5b">Moisturization support</h1><p id="7905">A good night cream’s first line of sport is to provide extra moisture for your skin. At night your skin is working hard to replenish the moisture lost during the day. Keeping your skin’s moisture level healthy will help that cell turnover to keep your skin bright and youthful. Your skin can perform its reparative duties better when it has an adequate moisture balance.</p><p id="f540">Even if your skin is naturally oily or acneic, your skin still needs a healthy moisture level to function at its best. Do not be afraid of adding moisture to your skin even

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if you have an oilier skin type or if you have blemish-prone skin. The sebaceous oil glands in your skin, found in the dermal layer of the skin, produce sebaceous oils called sebum. This is your Skin’s natural process of hydrating itself. When you strip away the natural sebum of your skin and don’t replace it with a moisturizer your skin will react by producing more oil. Therefore, even oily skin types can benefit from additional moisture in the evening before bed.</p><h1 id="d4e4">Targeted results for your skin</h1><p id="759d">Night creams often contain specialized ingredients to target specific results for your skin. For example, you may find salicylic acid which helps to balance uneven skin types that are more acne-prone. You may also find collagen supplements in your night cream to help support aging skins. CBD oil additives are gaining popularity in the skincare industry for extra moisture support and care for your skin.</p><p id="8055">Determine your most important goals for your skin to help you decide on the best night cream for you to use. For oilier skin types use a lightweight night cream with non-comedogenic properties. For normal skin, you can use a moisturizing night cream or a CBD night cream. For aging skin, you’ll want to choose a night cream that has collagen support, Alpha-hydroxy acids, and other anti-aging ingredients for fresher, more youthful skin.</p><h1 id="1d48">Delivery of supportive nutrients</h1><p id="14cb">Your night cream can also deliver nutrients such as <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/15/cnn-underscored/vitamin-c-benefits-for-skin#:~:text=For%20one%2C%20%E2%80%9Cvitamin%20C%20promotes,radicals%20caused%20by%20UV%20exposure.">Vitamin C</a> or <a href="https://www.healthline.com/health/vitamin-e-for-skin#the-takeaway">Vitamin E</a> for your skin or other botanicals and nourishing ingredients like aloe.</p><p id="fcf5">Vitamin C helps to support the production of collagen in your skin. It is a powerful antioxidant which means that it helps your skin to fight off free radicals in the environment. During this reparative phase at night, your skin can use the added support of Vitamin C.</p><p id="71ee">Vitamin Eis also an important antioxidant for your skin. It may also be helpful to reduce damage from UV rays that your skin has accumulated during the day. This is another added support for your skin at night when your skin works hard to repair all of the damage from free radicals and sun exposure.</p><p id="2c31">Aloe and other botanicals offer moisture, a calming effect, or other helpful benefits. <a href="https://parenting.firstcry.com/articles/magazine-11-best-herbs-that-you-must-use-for-your-skin-care/">Here’s a great article</a> on some of these beneficial botanical ingredients.</p><h1 id="c047">Overnight absorption</h1><p id="5832">Another important quality of night creams is how they are absorbed into the skin. These creams are typically a little thicker than your daily cream, are lacking in the extra additive of sunscreen, and generally contain more moisture than your typical day cream or face lotion.</p><p id="dfe3">These creams are more nourishing and are absorbed through the skin over the course of several hours during the time that you are sleeping. These creams are formulated with this special absorption in mind to help your skin get the most out of your night cream over the course of a good night’s sleep.</p><p id="b31f">A few things that you can do to help get the most out of your night cream are to use a gentle facial exfoliant a few times a week, and also to pair your night cream with a cleanser and toner that you’ll use before your night cream. If you are using any types of specialized facial serums you’ll want to put those on just before your night cream. It’s also important to keep your bedding clean so that your face is not exposed to any harmful bacterias or extra dirt and grime from your pillowcase.</p><h1 id="c9d9">No matter your skin type, all skin can benefit from a good night cream</h1><p id="7ee8">All skin types go through the same protective daytime activities and the same restorative nighttime replenishment. It does not matter what type of skin you have, your nighttime best skincare routine will include a great skincare night cream. I hope these tips and helpful information guide you toward a better beauty routine at night and more refreshed skin during the day.</p><p id="bac1"><i>Thanks for reading our content here at <a href="https://medium.com/beautiful-you">Beautiful You</a>. Follow our publication for more great beauty tips and some conversations about beauty that will inspire you to seek your most beautiful life, inside and out.</i></p></article></body>

SKINCARE

Using Night Cream Helps Your Skin — Here’s Why

Here’s why your skin needs that extra boost every night no matter your skin type

Many people mistakenly believe maybe their skin doesn’t need a night cream. Maybe they have oily skin, sensitive skin, young skin, or acne skin types. Maybe they feel the fancy creams are just too expensive or that they can get the same care for their skin by simply adding a regular lotion. But a good night cream is designed with your body’s natural nighttime skin activities in mind.

Let’s talk about what your skin is up to while you sleep, how night creams work to support those natural functions, and why you need a night cream for your best skincare routine.

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∘SKINCARE
·Your Nighttime Skincare Routine Is Important
· The role of skin
· Restore & repair
· Cell turnover
· Collagen production
Night Cream Helps Your Skin at Night
· Moisturization support
· Targeted results for your skin
· Delivery of supportive nutrients
· Overnight absorption
No matter your skin type, all skin can benefit from a good night cream

Your Nighttime Skincare Routine Is Important

Your skin does an awful lot of work while you sleep. These crucial activities help your skin to not only function its best but to look its best as well. We all know our skin shows it when we haven’t had enough of our “beauty sleep.” Turns out, beauty sleep is a very correct way of terming it.

Let’s take a look at what is going on with your skin while you slumber.

The role of skin

Your skin is the largest organ of your body and it has important work to do for you each day and night. Take a look at some of your skin’s functions:

Protects you against harmful things in the environment, acting as a shield for you and all your internal organs.
Detects sensations such as temperature changes to keep your cells safe and protected from danger. (Also, your skin detects pleasurable sensations as well…thank you skin!)
Processes important nutrients for your body like synthesizing Vitamin D, a vitamin crucial to your health.
Helps to maintain your body’s moisture balance, regulate your body temperature, and filter nutrients for the body.
A large factor in your appearance, likely the least important function physically, but one that is important to us, personally.

Restore & repair

During the day, your skin works hard to fight against free radicals and other pollutants in the environment. It can be a thankless job as we put our skins through exposure to harsh weather, too much sun, rough activities, and abrasive treatment. We put on makeup or shave. At night, the skin works to undo all that damage.

When you sleep, your skin goes into a restorative and reparative mode. The work your skin does at night helps to refresh, restore, and rejuvenate makes you look younger and more rested. (This is why we call it beauty sleep!)

Cell turnover

You’ve likely heard the term cell turnover back in biology class, but let’s do a mini-refresher on what this means for your complexion. Don’t worry — we’ll keep the anatomy and physiology lesson brief for our purposes today. (If you’d like to know more about the skin and how it works, drop me a comment and I can revisit this topic for future posts.)

Your skin is made up of three layers: the epidermis (this is the part that you see), the dermis (just below the surface), and the subcutaneous layer which is the innermost layer that contains the fatty tissues. All three layers are important to the function of your skin and also to your appearance.

Cell turnover is the process by which fresh new skin cells (keratinocytes) are produced in the deepest basal layers of the skin, then migrate upward toward the surface. These new skin cells keep your skin looking vibrant and smooth.

Dead skin cells on the surface of your skin can impede these new skin cells from rising to the surface and keep them covered up can give your skin a dull appearance and your skin an uneven texture. Cleansing the skin and occasional exfoliation will help to keep this cycle of cell turnover moving well. And yes, as you age, the cell turnover cycle slows. As you sleep, the cell turnover process is most active.

Collagen production

Another nighttime activity of your skin is the production of collagen. Collagen is a protein important to your skin because it gives your skin elasticity and form. If you’ve noticed your skin has a more droopy texture and doesn’t have that bounce-back firm feel that you have been used to, likely a slowing of the collagen production in your skin is partly to blame.

Collagen is the most abundant protein in your body and for all the benefits that it has to your skin it also helps to keep your body healthy and your bones strong. You can take collagen supplements or use hydrolyzed collagen which is a broken-down form of collagen (to make it easier to be absorbed by skin) that is found in skin creams and skin care products to help your skin get the collagen it needs.

Healthy collagen production gives you a more youthful look and an overall brighter appearance. As you age your collagen production slows down, causing your skin to sag and form wrinkles, which is why you’ll notice more collagen added to anti-aging skin care products.

Now that we know a little bit about how the skin functions and what it does at night while we are sleeping, let’s take a look at why a night cream helps to support those activities.

Night Cream Helps Your Skin at Night

To support these nighttime activities in your skin, night creams are designed to offer support by way of extra moisture, targeted results by a choice of beneficial ingredients, and by delivery of some important nutrients to help your skin be its best. For any type of skin and any type of lifestyle, a night cream will add that extra supportive care for your skin.

Moisturization support

A good night cream’s first line of sport is to provide extra moisture for your skin. At night your skin is working hard to replenish the moisture lost during the day. Keeping your skin’s moisture level healthy will help that cell turnover to keep your skin bright and youthful. Your skin can perform its reparative duties better when it has an adequate moisture balance.

Even if your skin is naturally oily or acneic, your skin still needs a healthy moisture level to function at its best. Do not be afraid of adding moisture to your skin even if you have an oilier skin type or if you have blemish-prone skin. The sebaceous oil glands in your skin, found in the dermal layer of the skin, produce sebaceous oils called sebum. This is your Skin’s natural process of hydrating itself. When you strip away the natural sebum of your skin and don’t replace it with a moisturizer your skin will react by producing more oil. Therefore, even oily skin types can benefit from additional moisture in the evening before bed.

Targeted results for your skin

Night creams often contain specialized ingredients to target specific results for your skin. For example, you may find salicylic acid which helps to balance uneven skin types that are more acne-prone. You may also find collagen supplements in your night cream to help support aging skins. CBD oil additives are gaining popularity in the skincare industry for extra moisture support and care for your skin.

Determine your most important goals for your skin to help you decide on the best night cream for you to use. For oilier skin types use a lightweight night cream with non-comedogenic properties. For normal skin, you can use a moisturizing night cream or a CBD night cream. For aging skin, you’ll want to choose a night cream that has collagen support, Alpha-hydroxy acids, and other anti-aging ingredients for fresher, more youthful skin.

Delivery of supportive nutrients

Your night cream can also deliver nutrients such as Vitamin C or Vitamin E for your skin or other botanicals and nourishing ingredients like aloe.

Vitamin C helps to support the production of collagen in your skin. It is a powerful antioxidant which means that it helps your skin to fight off free radicals in the environment. During this reparative phase at night, your skin can use the added support of Vitamin C.

Vitamin Eis also an important antioxidant for your skin. It may also be helpful to reduce damage from UV rays that your skin has accumulated during the day. This is another added support for your skin at night when your skin works hard to repair all of the damage from free radicals and sun exposure.

Aloe and other botanicals offer moisture, a calming effect, or other helpful benefits. Here’s a great article on some of these beneficial botanical ingredients.

Overnight absorption

Another important quality of night creams is how they are absorbed into the skin. These creams are typically a little thicker than your daily cream, are lacking in the extra additive of sunscreen, and generally contain more moisture than your typical day cream or face lotion.

These creams are more nourishing and are absorbed through the skin over the course of several hours during the time that you are sleeping. These creams are formulated with this special absorption in mind to help your skin get the most out of your night cream over the course of a good night’s sleep.

A few things that you can do to help get the most out of your night cream are to use a gentle facial exfoliant a few times a week, and also to pair your night cream with a cleanser and toner that you’ll use before your night cream. If you are using any types of specialized facial serums you’ll want to put those on just before your night cream. It’s also important to keep your bedding clean so that your face is not exposed to any harmful bacterias or extra dirt and grime from your pillowcase.

No matter your skin type, all skin can benefit from a good night cream

All skin types go through the same protective daytime activities and the same restorative nighttime replenishment. It does not matter what type of skin you have, your nighttime best skincare routine will include a great skincare night cream. I hope these tips and helpful information guide you toward a better beauty routine at night and more refreshed skin during the day.

Thanks for reading our content here at Beautiful You. Follow our publication for more great beauty tips and some conversations about beauty that will inspire you to seek your most beautiful life, inside and out.