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Your skin absorbs a small amount of oxygen through the pores and so needs to ‘breathe’. Try not putting anything onto your face for at least a small part of each day and always cleanse well to avoid blocked pores. Breathing properly through your lungs will also benefit your skin: breathing in supplies your skin with oxygen and breathing out removes carbon dioxide and waste. Many of us breathe incorrectly by taking shallow breaths into the top of the chest. Try inhaling and exhaling slowly through the nose. Keep the shoulders relaxed and draw each breath right down into your stomach, holding it there to a count of four, before exhaling slowly, emptying out your lungs completely. Breathing is a great stress reliever: it has been shown to lower the pulse rate and its easy, rhythmic quality is comforting.

Sleep allows your body to regenerate and your mind to clear so that you wake up feeling and looking fresh.

Pollution, sun exposure, sugar and cigarette smoke all trigger the formation of free radicals. The result is a skin ‘breakdown’ manifesting in premature ageing or even severe conditions such as skin cancer.