Want Better Skin? Using This 1 Thing Before Bed Can Help And It's Already In Your Home

HuffPost's "Am I Doing It Wrong" chatted with Dr. Sherwin Parikh to get the lowdown on a nighttime skincare routine that will get you glowing.

Do we really need a 10-step nighttime skincare routine — or is that just a beauty urban legend that can scare us into spending an extra 35 minutes in front of our bathroom mirror when we could be comfortably in bed scrolling through puppy videos?

It turns out it’s in our best interest to tend to our skin before we turn in for the night because our entire body, including our skin, restores and repairs itself while we sleep. But we certainly don’t need all the products. If we want to pare it down to the bare minimum to keep our skin healthy and glowy, all we really need to do is cleanse, apply a serum, and moisturize.

That’s what Dr. Sherwin Parikh, dermatologist, professor and founder of Tribeca Skin Center, told us — Raj Punjabi and Noah Michelson, co-hosts of HuffPost’s “Am I Doing It Wrong?” podcast — when we recently chatted with him about nighttime skincare.

Three steps — that sounds easy enough, right? Dr. Parikh gave us a lot more to consider, though, if we’re interested in improving both the appearance and health of the skin on our face and neck. One tip involves something almost all of us have in our homes, and it doesn’t cost a single cent.

“The last thing you should do before you go to bed is drink a ton of water. You should have to pee the first thing you get up in the morning,” he told us. “First thing in the morning, tall glass of water. Last thing before bed, tall glass of water. The idea is to hydrate.”