Serious Skincare For Hot Summer, Beat The Heat!

It’s that time of the year when the spotlight is on serious skincare. Beat the heat and allow your skin to breathe.

- Kavita Khosa

The hot and piercing sun during summer can damage your skin and lead to a number of irritations and complications. According to Ayurveda, pitta dosha is at its peak in the summer months making your skin feel irritated, clogged, and prone to breakouts as well. Depending on your constitution or dosha, the season can either aggravate your innate tendencies or enhance your internal sense of harmony. Ayurveda advocates a switch in dietary choices, habits and routines with the changing season in order to maintain balance and harmony. It is advisable you get to know your dosha type so that you can introduce the changes your skin needs to remain glowing, radiant and healthy. Here is a primer and some easy DIYs (do-it yourself) you can follow that will work well for all dosha types. Simple yet not simplistic. It’s about going back to the basics.

DRINKS TO KEEP YOU COOL

Ensure that you keep your body hydrated at all times. Apart from water, get into traditional Ayurvedic drinks such as amsol saar, a sherbet made of kokum juice and coconut milk. The good old chaach or buttermilk laced with jeera powder and coriander leaf is highly cooling as well. Make a jug full of lime and mint juice with cucumber and aloe vera to sip throughout the day. Look up fun recipes that use coconut water and fresh fruit juices as they work wonders to keep your body hydrated. Kokum juice reduces heat and inflammation during summer and helps counter acidity and provide relief from a sunstroke.

Buttermilk contains active cultures and it is also probiotic, which helps soothe the intestinal tract. The active bacteria in it helps boost immunity levels and manufactures essential nutrients and vitamins that are good for your body.