5 Steps to Your Best Beauty Sleep Ever

You must have heard it. Sleeping a certain way will eventually increase the amount of wrinkles you have. You must have heard this one too: sleeping with your hair a particular way will cause breakage. Well, what's the right thing to do? How to do you have your best beauty sleep ever? Here are five steps.

Take things off.

Of course to have a good beauty sleep, you need to put on some nice pretty pajamas. But one of the keys to getting your best beauty sleep ever is to take off your make up. And that doesn't mean you have to buy an expensive makeup remover either. Consider using a gentle nonoily cleanser like Cetaphil. You goal: To make taking off your makeup so gentle that your pores don't get irritated.

Put things on.

Before going to bed, you should put on an exfoliating moisturizer with alpha hydroxy acid and hydroquinone. These two ingredients will even out your skin tone. Brands to try include La Roche-Posay Active C.

Coat your body in Milk.

Cleopatra did it. So can you. Milk is one of those commonly overlooked ingredients when it comes to getting a good beauty sleep. Sure, some moisturizers have started advertising that they have milk in them. But many people aren't really sure if milk is an effective beauty aid.

Well here's your answer: It is. Milk will definitely help you to get the best beauty sleep ever. Lactic acid is a wonderful hydrator.

You might want to try applying Lachydrin nightly. You can get the 12 % lactic acid formula with a prescription or you can purchase the 5 percent version over the counter. Also, soak brittle nails and rough feet in milk for about 20 minutes before going to bed.

Be sure to protect your hair.

One of the biggest beauty sleep issues is hair. If you don't handle your hair correctly before going to bed, you will cause breakage, knotting and kinkiness. But you can wake up to healthy hair by putting a leave-in conditioning treatment on your hair two to three nights per week. Be sure to comb the leave in conditioner through hair. As the hair dries overnight, the conditioner will work on the hair. Avoid sleeping in ponytails to add volume to your hair. They cause breakage and frizz.

And there you have it. Do all of these things and you're on your way to getting your best beauty sleep ever.