Healthy Skin Tip - Vitamin D, SPF, and Premature Aging.

To keep yourself healthy, it is recommended to incorporate Vitamin D into your lifestyle. Of course you can find it as a supplement (just make sure it's D3), but your body can also make it directly from sunlight - except during the winter in the mid-west, where the earths tilt makes it exceedingly difficult. If you do choose to get your Vitamin D from sunlight, here's what I suggest:

To help prevent premature aging while still getting natural Vitamin D, always (and I do mean always) wear a mineral based SPF on the face, neck, chest, and hands - the places that show age the most. Let larger areas, like your back and legs, get 10-15 minutes a day of sunlight. Of course if you are going to do this, keep in mind "healthy sun" hours. UV light is strongest between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. standard time (or 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. DST), so try to avoid or limit sun exposure during these hours.

This brings up another point: In general, bring your products down from the face, to the neck, decollete, and hands. Especially when moisturizing, bring your face cream all the way down your neck, onto your chest, and finish by rubbing the leftover product on your hands. Have you ever seen someone who has taut looking facial skin, but as your eyes travel a little lower, their neck or even chest is crapey? We can all hope to avoid this fate by taking care of our necks and chests, and even hands, they way we take care of our faces... by bringing our skin-care, especially the SPF and hydration, down to those other parts.