Stress Impacts Beauty

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Stress Impacts Beauty

Stress Takes a Toll on Beauty

Many of us take complicated steps in order to look younger and retain our youth. However, many of us overlook one important step: reducing our chronic stress, which can have great consequences on our appearance.

Many consumers turn to makeup and other beauty products in order to continue to look young and fresh, but there is a cheaper, more natural solution. Reducing stress is important for inner and outer beauty as stress can take a toll on our looks. Chronic stress is prolonged and persistent over a period of time and increases levels of cortisol in the blood. This stress can affect our immune, nervous and endocrine systems, causing emotional, mental, and physical illness and aging us in the process.

Listed below are three ways in which stress can impact our health and the way we look.

Stress ages us prematurely

A study from the University of California at San Francisco has proven that stress causes premature aging. This study found that stress could take as much as 10 years off of your life. The good news is that this same study also found that this damage is reversible.

Stress takes a toll on the way you look

Stress can make your complexion become lackluster. It also triggers just about every skin condition you can think of: acne, dryness and flaking, psoriasis and eczema, rosacea, and even under eye bags. You could also begin to lose your hair. Your entire mind and body ages much faster than normal when you live plagued by stress.

Stress makes you gain weight

Research at Stanford University shows stress changes your metabolism and causes you to store increased fat around vital organs in the center of the body. Your body needs more nourishment and your appetite increases under stress. You eat to satisfy your appetite and the serotonin makes you feel calm and satisfied. But as soon as that food is digested, your cortisol level rises again, your appetite is stimulated and the cycle continues.

So, if you would like to lower your stress while nurturing your physical appearance consider having a stress-busting, all-natural spa day at home.

 

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