Winter Skin Care Blog

Moisturizing the skin can’t be stressed enough. During winter, skin can easily become dry due to the low humidity. Choosing the right moisturizer is another thing. Moisturizers that have skin softening ingredients like aloe would be better. Moisturizing is done best after bathing while the skin is still damp since this locks in moisture. Try to also use a heavier layer of moisturizer for those parts of the skin that’ll be exposed in the dry winter air.

Bathing is a great way to wash the aches and pains that you get during the day and especially during winter. After arriving from home, take a relaxing soak in the tub with bath salts to relax warm up your body and soothe away any aches.

You’ve turned on the heat and you’ve closed all the windows. You should be fine now that you’re all warmed up right? But what’s this? Your skins become all cracked and itchy, a sure sign of drying.

The reason there are humidifiers sold is that they help maintain the moisture in the air. One need not go to the trouble to install highly expensive humidifying systems just to invest in their skin care. A small inexpensive one obtained from the local drug store will do. 2 or 3 of these just around the house will go a long way to helping humidify the air, banishing away the itchiness of eczema and the dryness of the skin.

To cope with the stress of winter to your skin, make sure that you have a moisturizer and a sun block ready at your vanity dresser. Some people would assume that due to the absence of sunlight on winter, there is no need to use a sun block. This is not true at all, in fact, the more you need to use sun block on cold months as the dry freeze could scald your skin in a small amount of time. This is what we call dry heat, from the term dry ice we could fathom how such an event could come to be. Moisturizer will assist the skin from coping with the cold dry days of winter and will prevent it from chapping as it would inevitably do if not hydrated properly. Exercising to summon the body’s natural endorphins could also act as an innate moisturizer for the insides of your body. With regular incorporation, you will not
have to worry about winter skin blues.

It starts around November. Winds pick up, temperatures creep down. Furnaces kick on making the inside of our homes crackle with dry air.

That’s when the itching begins. Some people live with dry, scratchy skin all winter, until spring when the furnace clicks off. For others, it’s a year-round penance of living in a desert.

“Dry skin is worse in winter. Here, (there’s) no humidity,” said Dr. Julia Ai of Bella Dermatology in Sparks. “It’s worse in winter here because homes have dry heat.”

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