Did you know that taking as few as five minutes a day for the sake of skin care can make a huge impact on how youthful and beautiful your skin looks? It can and it does. If you can take more, that is even better but far too few women spend more than a few seconds washing their faces with soap and water each day—which can do much more harm than good in the long run. You can even make your own skin care products so that enjoying excellent skin care daily doesn’t have to become a financial hardship.

Despite common misconceptions, you do not need to spend a fortune on your skin in order to enjoy beautiful skin that has a healthy, youthful glow. Most makers of anti aging skin care products won’t clue you in to this little secret though. You can find effective products in all price ranges. It is even possible to make your own—though admittedly it will take far more than five minutes a day if you are going this route.

Taking five minutes out of your busy schedule help with your skin care needs in more ways than the obvious. The obvious being that by investing five minutes of your time into your skin care efforts you are actually spending time caring for your skin and that is a good thing as long as you are using products that will address your specific skin care needs.

The not so obvious benefit of taking five minutes for skin care each and every day is that you are, in essence, taking five minutes for yourself. Too many women spend too little time caring for ourselves. Pampering aside, we often do next to nothing to restore our mental clarity, affirm who we are as individuals, and be anything other than mommy, wife, sister, boss, worker, chef, dispute mediator, coworker moderator, crisis manager, and countless other titles we wear throughout the day. Five minutes seems like such a small price to ask and so many of us find that difficult to do.

The mental health benefits alone of taking five minutes for yourself and the care of your skin will work to improve your skin health. You see, stress, and the constant need to be “on” all the time, are leading contributors to the skin problems you are hoping to heal. These five minutes are not only your chance to fit in that much needed skin care but also to relax.  I know, it’s a foreign concept but the benefits are well worth five minutes worth of time.

You wear many hats as a women in the modern world. Taking five minutes for skin care each and every day allows you to remove all of those hats and simply be a woman—at least for five minutes. Start small and then, as the people in your life become accustomed to your five minute skin care breaks, work your way up to bigger breaks and even better skin health along the way.