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today i’m going to show you how to make

a homemade face moisturizer for dry skin

now the thing about dry skin is that

it’s not a dehydration situation it’s

not that you’re not drinking enough

water that’s not it in fact the more

water you drink

the drier your skin is going to be

because you’re going to dilute your

electrolytes okay so dehydration creates

a lot of symptoms but it’s typically not

dryness of the skin

dry skin is low efa what does that mean

essential fatty acids okay and i’m

talking about

an unsaturated fat not saturated fats

omega-3 fatty acids now

essential fatty acids are both omega-3

and omega-6 but the reason why i’m not

going to talk about omega-6 is because

chances are you already have too many

omega-6 fats in their diet corn oil

soy oil canola cottonseed oil and we

really are deficient in the omega-3

fatty acids and so when you don’t have

enough of this your skin gets really dry

and flaky there’s actually three types

of omega-3 you have epa

and dha but you also have a precursor

ala all right that can turn into epa and

also dha to a certain degree and these

omega-3 fatty acids actually protect the

skin

against the sun it’s rays like uv light

so they do a lot of things for your skin

not just keep your skin moist but they

can protect against uv radiation now how

do you get omega-3 fatty acids well from

sardines

cod liver cod liver oil fish oils like

salmon

algae things like that

but are you gonna really rub sardine oil

or cod liver oil on your face right

probably not a good thing now you could

rub algae in your face but what i’m

going to recommend in this video is

using chia seed and seaweed okay

so this is simply how you’re going to

make this facial mask which is then

going to give you the result of more

moisture in your face okay so you’ll

combine six teaspoons of water in a

little container and two teaspoons of

chia seed ground down we want to grind

them up to

release some of these oils all right

and then we’re gonna add a teaspoon of

seaweed you can either get

seaweed as a powder or you could take a

seaweed tablet from a supplement and

open up one of the capsules or you can

get some dry seaweed from a little sheet

and crinkle it up and put it in a

teaspoon and add that to it and then

we’ll add one teaspoon of olive oil make

sure it’s extra virgin olive oil the

real good stuff we’re gonna mix all this

up

we’re gonna apply this to our face okay

and then we’re gonna wait 15 minutes and

then we’ll wash it off now you’re going

to find that the omega-3 fatty acids in

the chia seed as well as the seaweed

directly goes in the skin anything that

you put on your skin gets absorbed

because all these chemical moisturizers

that have petroleum products alcohol

chemicals that they’re putting on their

hands or their face it’s going right in

like a sponge so you really got to be

careful about what you put on your face

so it’s very similar to foliar spraying

like spraying nutrients on plants it

goes right into the leaves the same

thing with our bodies

now i do want to point out this is a

quick fix okay

obviously you want to find the real

cause of why your your skin is dry in

the first place and you do want to start

consuming omega-3 fatty acids in your

diet okay and also isolate other reasons

why your skin might be dry it could be

that you’re a smoker or you’re getting

second-hand smoke or you drink too much

alcohol or

consuming too much sugar or you’re going

through too much stress which can

greatly affect

your skin and as a side note to that

you have all these friendly microbes on

your skin that are supposed to be there

so if you’re using certain types of

cleansing

creams or cleansing lotions to strip off

things from your skin to clean it you’re

also destroying the friendly microbes on

your skin

and that can create dryness or

irritation or redness so

stress can can affect the microbes on

your skin

and not having enough microbiome or good

bacteria in your gut for certain reasons

let’s say for example you took an

antibiotic

that can also affect your skin from the

inside out so there’s a lot of different

reasons why you might have dry skin it

could be that you’re on the typical

american diet where you’re consuming a

lot of seed oils corn oil soy oil canola

cotton seed oil which are very high in

omega-6 fatty acids that will literally

create a deficiency of the omega-3 fatty

acids this is actually very common or it

could be your soap is drying out your

skin there’s a really interesting video

that you should watch on soap

the tap water

from the shower okay you’re getting

exposed to fluoride and chlorine which

is very very harsh on your skin you

should get a filter and if you wear

makeup or certain foundations and has

petroleum in there or alcohol that can

create the drying out effect but a

really good video for you to watch next

if you haven’t seen my one on soap

is the one in soap check it out i put it

right here