What is happening to your skin at 2am when you are deep asleep

You close your eyes. The lights go off. The whole house is quiet.

But your skin? Your skin just started its busiest shift of the day.

Most people think sleep is just rest. And yes, your body is resting. But your skin is doing the complete opposite. The moment you fall asleep, your skin switches into full repair mode and starts fixing everything that the day threw at it.

The sun, the dust, the pollution, the stress, the screen time. Your skin took all of it silently while you were going about your day. And now at night, while you are dreaming, it is quietly trying to fix itself.

Your skin loses moisture while you sleep

Here is something that will surprise you.

Every single night while you sleep, your skin is slowly losing moisture into the air around you. It is not something you can feel or see but it is happening. By the time your alarm goes off in the morning, your skin has lost a good amount of the water that it needs to look plump, soft and healthy.

This is why so many people wake up with tight, dry or dull looking skin even after a full night of sleep.

Did you know?

Your skin loses almost double the amount of moisture at night compared to the day. Because, at night your body temperature rises slightly and causes moisture to evaporate from your skin faster. This is why your morning skincare routine can never fully replace what a good nighttime routine does for your skin.

So, how does slugging help?

The all-important nighttime routine- this is where slugging becomes your skin’s best friend.

When you apply a thick cream on your face before sleeping, it acts like a lid on a pot of boiling water. All that moisture that was going to escape! – it stays right inside your skin. Your skin then uses that moisture to repair itself through the night. It rebuilds the dry and damaged parts. It fills up the areas that feel rough and tight. It works on making the surface soft and even, again.

With slugging, you are basically giving your skin everything it needs to do its job properly while you sleep.

Wake up and see the difference

People who slug before sleeping talk about a very specific feeling when they wake up. Their skin feels softer. It looks more awake. There is a natural glow that no morning cream can fully recreate.

That is because their skin spent the whole night repairing itself without losing the moisture it needed.

The cream that has been doing this for generations

Now that you know what your skin needs at night, the next question is what should you apply?

The secret has been sitting in Indian homes since 1929.

Boroline is an occlusive cream that locks moisture into your skin through the night and lets your skin do its repair work without any interruption. Three generations of Indians have woken up to better skin because of it.

And in our next blog we are going to talk about how Boroline quietly became the most under-hyped slugging cream that the whole world is only now catching up to.