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How to Sleep Your Way to Better Skin (Literally)

🕒 2 min read✎ The Velura Journal24 July 2026

Overnight, your skin runs its repair programme: barrier rebuilding peaks, cell turnover accelerates, and water loss is at its daily maximum. Sleep quality directly shapes how well that programme runs.

Three levers that cost nothing: a consistent sleep window (the repair cycle syncs to routine), a cool room around 18°C (heat increases overnight water loss), and moisturising before bed — you're stocking the shelf right before the night shift starts.

One more: silk or smooth cotton pillowcases reduce friction on face and décolleté. Not magic, just less mechanical stress, seven hours a night, every night.

Stock the night shift: Butta Drop Body Milk before bed.

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