7 top tips to help your skin and body detoxify

The New Year is here! Detoxify your skin and body from the overindulgences of the holiday season.
Cleansing and detoxifying your skin and body from the inside out will help your body reduce the accumulated toxins, helping your body to revitalise and recharge.

Gentle detoxification will not only help improve your skin, it will also help your concentration, improve overall health as well as giving you an extra energy boost to kick start your year!

It’s important to reduce your toxic load: Eliminate alcohol, cigarettes, caffeine and refined sugars.

7 top tips to help your skin and body detoxify:

1. Drink water
Your intake of water should be around 1.6 litres per day. To help with detoxification, squeeze half a lemon into a glass of water. Lemons help stimulate your liver and flush out toxins. They are also a high source of vitamin C, calcium and potassium.

2. Fruit juice & vegetable cleanse
Detoxifies your body and will provide essential vitamins and minerals.

3. Gentle exercise and deep breathing
Reduces stress and increases your oxygen levels which helps cleanse toxins from the body.
The body removes 70% of toxins through breathing alone.

4. Powerful detoxifying herbs
Dandelion, milk thistle, peppermint tea and green tea help cleanse various organs and systems of the body.

5. Increase your intake of fibre rich foods
Brussel sprouts, broccoli, peas, spinach, blackberries, raspberries, avocado, apples, pears, brown rice, whole wheat pasta, oatmeal and almonds.

6. Detoxifying Sauna
Saunas are hugely beneficial for enhancing circulation and flushing out toxins. The sweating causes bacteria and toxins to be released through the pores.

7. Dry brush your skin
The skin is the largest organ of the body which eliminates toxins and dead skin cells. Dry skin brushing is an effective way of stimulating and enhancing the detoxification process. Not only does it help remove dead skin cells to reveal younger looking skin, it also helps stimulate circulation and the lymphatic system to remove toxins. Dry skin brushing massages the skin which also helps reduce cellulite.

You will need a natural skin brush:

• Always use long, sweeping strokes towards the heart.
• Start from the feet and work upward, brushing the front and back of legs.
• Stomach area, continue to work in an upward direction.
• Back area, continue in an upward direction.
• Now start from the hands, use long strokes in an upward direction.
• Last, the shoulders and chest, work downward towards the heart.

You will notice that your skin and body feels completely invigorated!