BalanceJulyIssue17 - 57

FOR HIM AND HER

Beauty /Grooming

Hydration
stations!
Look like
a peach
rather than
a prune this
summer
with these
tips on
keeping
hydrated

LEE
KYNASTON

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Although a firm
believer that
real beauty comes
from the inside,
Lee sees no
harm in giving the
outside some TLC.

ike most beauty/grooming writers
I'm pretty evangelical about the
need for adequate hydration
- especially because it's so crucial
to overall skin health. However, I'm absolutely

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useless at making sure I am always properly
hydrated. A busy lifestyle, coupled with
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a love of alcohol and builder's tea,
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moisture-robbing air travel and, yes,
dull, grey and, since dry skin is more
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a general laziness when it comes to
prone to premature ageing, older too. 
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downing water, mean I am often well
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And I'm not alone. According to a study
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vital, though you should remember it needs
drink more tea than we do tap water, with fewer
a multi-pronged approach. Increasing your
than 250,000 of us drinking the eight glasses
fluid intake is one thing but protecting the
of water a day recommended by the NHS. 
skin's protective barrier and locking that water
in with a quality moisturiser is essential, too. 
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Look out for products like Pestle &
Water is key for a healthy complexion because
Mortar's Pure Hyaluronic Serum with
it's required for the transportation of nutrients
hyaluronic acid (a naturally-occurring
to skin cells and for the removal of waste
hydrator which both attracts and retains a
products. That moisture is held in the dermis
thousand times its own weight in water);
(the bit below the outermost epidermis) by
protect your extremities with hand and foot
special proteins called glycosaminoglycans,
creams and, as the mercury rises and the
which ensure that collagen and elastin fibres
Tube becomes unbearable, make sure you
function correctly.
It's also crucial to maintaining the right
protective surface pH and for desquamation -
the shedding of dead skin cells. Deny it the
moisture it needs and skin doesn't just
function less efficiently, it also ends up looking

carry some moisture with you - not just
water but a pocket-sized misting spray like
Aesop's Immediate Moisture Facial Hydrosol.
Cutting back on boozy cocktails will help
too, of course, but I'm not going to ask you to
do anything I wouldn't do myself. B

6 WAYS W I TH WATER
good for

dry, rough
elbows

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1. Dr Hauschka Regenerating Hand
Cream, £12.75 for 50ml (dr.hauschka.com)
2. Aesop Immediate Moisture Facial
Hydrosol, £15 for 60ml (aesop.co.uk)
3. LQ Liquid Health Skin, Hair & Nails,
£29.99 for 10 50ml bottles (boots.com)
4. Tapped Birch Water, £2.50 for 250ml
(planetorganic.com)
5. Pestle&Mortar Pure Hyaluronic Serum,
£36 for 30ml (pestleandmortar.com)
6. Jurlique Activating Water Essence,
£40 for 150ml (jurlique.co.uk)

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