5 Reasons Why You Need To Add CBD To Your Skincare Routine

Cannabidiol (CBD) is renowned for its excellent health benefits, including offsetting anxiety and depression, relieving post-traumatic stress disorder and promoting better sleep. As well as its diverse range of overall health benefits, the active ingredient extracted from the hemp plant’s flowers is becoming a must-have in many bathroom cabinets. The curative effects CBD has on the skin are potent and match the most tried and tested skin care products, leaving many to add CBD to their daily skincare routine.

1. Everything is re-balanced

Hectic lifestyles, lack of sleep, diet, pollution, sun overexposure, dust and so many more factors can stress us and ultimately our skin. To put our skin back in balance, we need more than regular skincare. And CBD has a proven, natural wellness compound with the power to restore the natural order of things through a unique and powerful interaction with our skin cells.

Try This Works evening detox CBD booster+ AHA complex (30ml, RRP: £38, €48). For the early evening, meet the evening detox CBD booster + AHA Complex, a detoxifying product that will wash away the day to leave your skin looking calmer and more even. If breakouts are your skin nemesis, the 15% AHA complex in this product will work hard to exfoliate and reduce them during your skin’s nightly reparation.

2. Works as an anti-inflammatory

Inflammation causes all manner of problems, not just for our skin but for our overall health, too. Although inflammation has a clear biological purpose to heal injuries and attack viruses, too much of it will have a harmful effect, with damaging consequences for our skin. Some of the skin issues caused by chronic inflammation include cell damage, rashes and redness, while long-term inflammation will lead to older, more tired skin. One of the best-known properties of CBD oil is its anti-inflammatory effect.

3. It’s sensitive-skin friendly

CBD can be a calming presence for all skin types and concerns. Plus, it is one of the few ingredients that is well-tolerated and even welcomed by skin that is prone to rosacea, eczema and other sensitivities. As well as anti-inflammatory properties that allow it to calm the skin, CBD helps nourish it and allows it to retain moisture.

For sensitive skin, use This Works morning expert CBD booster + Vitamin C (30ml, RRP: £38, €48). The wake-up category boasts a balancing ‘get up and glow’ product that will brighten, energise and smooth your skin respectively, both formulated with 1% CBD. The morning expert CBD booster + Vitamin C blends CBD with Vitamin C at a complexion-boosting 20% and is a powerful yet calming morning refresher that is designed to give dull-looking skin a lift and soothe redness.

4. Identifiable problem areas are targeted

One of the advantages of CBD skincare products like topical creams, balms and lotions is that they can be applied directly to certain problem spots on your skin, particularly areas of severe concern like rashes and dry patches. Evidence shows that CBD applied directly to the skin brings benefits localised to that zone, helping to concentrate the powers of CBD in one spot. Although it’s still a good idea to take CBD for its all-around benefits, applied to the skin it can still bring overall benefits to the body, too. The active components in CBD are absorbed by the skin and pass through the body, although to a lesser extent than sublingual ingestion.

The Daily Saviour is This Works my wrinkles CBD booster + Bakuchiol (30ml, RRP: £38, €48). For a daily boost, try the my wrinkles CBD booster + Bakuchiol, which you could also refer to as ‘the fountain of youth’. Bakuchiol is a plant-based product with effects that are likened to Retinol which, when paired with the CBD, smooths, brightens and rejuvenates your skin.

5. The de-stressing element

Farm fresh CBD-based skincare products don’t only help to hydrate, regenerate, nourish and protect, but have incredible de-stressing benefits too. That’s important when countless stress factors ultimately take a toll on your skin and make everything feel out of balance.

Before bed, use This Works my wrinkles CBD booster + Granactive Retinoid (30ml, RRP: £38, €48). Include my wrinkles CBD booster + Granactive Retinoid in your pre-bed routine for age-defying effects like plumping the skin and reducing fine lines.

Pair any of these boosters with your favourite face or body moisturiser for a gentle power-up, or use them alone for a more targeted, powerful treatment. Don’t forget to shake before use. We hope you love them as much as we do…

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