Of course all this digging in the dirt leaves my skin rough and dry.

Below are a few of my favorite post garden products to heal and renew.

Renew Your Hands and Feet: Exfoliate with Handcrafted Soap

Handcrafted soap is excellent for Garden Hands (and beach feet). Choose a natural soap with build in exfoliation to remove tired (and dirty!) dead skin.  Choose To Go., Lavender & Rhassoul, or Happiness.

Don’t want to get dirt under your finger nails?
Take a bar of soap, dig finger nails into bar leaving soap under nails. Leave under nails while gardening. When you are done, wash hands. The soap will prevent dirt from getting stuck under your nails!

Renew your Body and Feet: Therapeutic Bath Salts

Spent too much time in the garden or by the river?  Our special blend of Therapeutic Bath Salts soothes tired muscles and moisturizes and repairs skin.  Dead Sea Salts, release toxins and excess fluids.  Calendula Oil, heals, softens and soothes skin.  Alfalfa Leaf Powder aids in relieving fatigue, and inflammation.
Been running around barefoot?  Soothe and soften feet by using the Therapeutic Bath Salts as a foot soak.

Renew and Repair your Hands, Knees, and Feet: Soften Up Salve

Soften Up Salve is excellent to soften, soothe, repair and heal garden hands, knees, feet, sunburns and even bug bites.  The secret is in the botanically infused oils.  Calendula oil soothes and heals dry skin.  St John’s Wort aids in healing wounds, sunburns and bug bites.  Sea Buckthorn treats scars and dry skin.  Apply after a long day in the garden to repair skin and treat bug bites.  Don’t forget to apply Soften Up Salve (or pick one the Firming Body Creams such as Garden Hippie or Lavender) before (and after) sun exposure to reduce the possibility of your skin drying out and/or skin peeling.

So taking my vitamins for healthier skin as well as all around general good healthy will be my goal this week!

But what vitamins should I take, especially for healthy skin? Now the most obvious answer, is to eat healthy and get the vitamins and minerals you need from food, but unfortunately sometimes we need to supplement our diet.

Here is a list of a few vitamins that also give you healthy skin and a list of the ones I will be taking everyday this week!

Multi Vitamin: Good all around. I prefer one with whole-food ingredients.
Zinc: Assist in wound healing, astringent, heals acne, reduce inflammation. Helps with the absorption of Vitamin A. Regulate hormonal production.
Essential Fatty Acids: I will take a fish oil but you can take flax or Evening Primrose Oil. Helps with Dry skin, white head and black heads. Helps to keep skin looking younger.
Vitamin B Complex: Helps keep skin hydrated. Assist in new skin cell growth. Helps to prevent premature aging and acne!

Read more on vitamins for acne at my previous blog.

Also WebMD has a good article on vitamins for skin.

Always check with your health care provider to decide what supplements are right for you.