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Title: Self-Care 101 & Glow-Up Tips!

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GLOW-UP CHALLENGE…!

Flow:

F1 What is personal hygiene? What is grooming?

While personal grooming and hygiene are often used interchangeably, they are slightly
different. Hygiene focuses more on health-related practices like washing hands or brushing
teeth to avoid illness. Grooming, on the other hand, also considers aspects like appearance
and neatness.

What is PH?

E.g.: Personal hygiene which is also referred to as personal care includes all the following:
Bathing and Showering

So here we can start talking about showers and pH value for healthy skin!

F2 Hygiene for Young Adult: Good Habits

Talk about basics: Showering, Brushing Teeth, etc.

Others that we often overlook: Hair Care, Genital Care & Body Odour

F3 Poor Hygiene Practices Results in:

Directly state the conditions with pictures……

 Nail care: bit.ly/nailcare_INTEC

 Foot care: Smelly Feet due to bacteria collected in your shoes, socks, and on your
skin - bit.ly/smellyfeet_footodor
 Dental care: Bad Breath – how do you prevent bad breath
 Hair care:
 Genital care:

F4 Solutions: Helping yourself managing personal hygiene!

 Bad Breath
 Skin & Daily Activity or Spots
 Body odour
 Periods & Shaving (Where do you shave for men and women)

****relate it to product!

Further Reading: https://www.schoolhealth.cnwl.nhs.uk/young-people/health-and-

wellbeing-zone/personal-hygiene/
 F5 Personal Grooming

Why is it important?
E.g. https://www.dtnext.in/fashion/2022/06/15/grooming-tips-for-college-students

F6 Tips on Grooming Yourself

Head – Body – Footwear

For head, hijabis and non hijabis or men and women!

F7 The End!

Hygiene for Teens: Good Habits

The following is a list of hygienic habits your teen should be engaging in:

 Showering or bathing every day.

 Washing hands with soap and water often.
 Washing hair regularly.
 Brushing hair every day and getting haircuts when needed.
 Brushing teeth twice a day.
 Flossing once a day.
 Shaving regularly (for boys obviously).
 Changing underwear daily and wearing clean clothes.
 Avoiding habits that involve putting hands into the mouth (e.g., fingernail biting).
 Clipping and grooming fingernails and toenails regularly.
 Taking care of injuries until they are healed.
 Using personal hygiene products correctly – facial acne cleansers, deodorant, feminine
hygiene products, etc.

If your teen has a retainer or wears braces, you should address the specific recommendations they
should follow. Similarly, if your teen wears contact lenses, make sure they understand how to take
care of their lenses and their eyes.

Personal Hygiene

Alongside daily hygiene habits such as washing your hands, brushing your teeth, and generally
keeping clean to reduce spreading germs and infection, there is also a social aspect to personal
hygiene. This is around body odour and dental hygiene.

As a young person, your body might already be going through several changes, or it soon will, so
maintaining good personal hygiene and establishing daily routines are important, especially as some
of these changes can be a source of anxiety for some people.
Here are some hygiene basics to help you stay healthy and clean, so that you don’t have to worry
about smelly underarms or feet.

Genital Care: Washing your genitals!

Men who are uncircumcised can clean their penis by gently pulling back the foreskin and washing
underneath it with warm water or soap. See more here about penis care.

Women can gently wash the delicate skin around the vulva with a soap-free wash, salt water or plain
water. Avoid perfumed soap and bath products since these may irritate the sensitive skin of the
vulva. Do not douche, because it upsets the healthy bacteria in the vagina.

During menstruation (your periods), wash your vulva as usual. Tampons can be changed every 3 to 4
hours. To avoid toxic shock syndrome, do not leave a tampon in for a long time, and never insert
more than one tampon at a time. Change sanitary pads several times a day. Wash your hands before
and after changing tampons or pads.