The weather is getting coooold, but your skin doesn’t have to show it! The dry, cold air can make skin look flakey and dull. Here are a few tips to keep a year-round glowing complexion:
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- Step up your moisturizer
A slightly heavier moisturizer can give your skin that extra protection that it needs when the weather is cold. - Exfoliate 2-3 times weekly
Exfoliating with a Lactic Acid product can help add moisture and get rid of flakey skin. Daily Microfoliant works well for most skin types, and is perfect for cold weather because it hydrates without being too aggressive. If you get regular professional peels, you may want to lighten up during the winter…they may cause more sensitivity and more peeling. - Add Hyaluronic Acid to your routine
This ingredient is super-hydrating…it hold 1,000 times its weight in water! Skin Hydrating Booster is the perfect product to add to your regimen in the winter…just apply a thin layer to skin under your moisturizer and you will look AND feel sooooo hydrated
You may not even need to change your moisturizer once you start using this product! - Don’t forget the SPF
The sun may not be out in full force, but it can still cause just as much damage behind clouds! Keep wearing your SPF15 to SPF30 each day. - Turn down the heat in the shower
It’s so tempting to take hot showers in the winter, but this can actually break down your protective layer and cause dehydration! Take a warm shower, and apply your body lotion as soon as you get out to lock in moisture. - Apply lotion before putting on glvoes and shoes
Gloves and shoes can really lock in moisture, which is especially important when it’s cold outside. Apply a thin layer of your favorite body lotion before putting on your layers, and you’ll be amazed at how smooth you feel by the day’s end! - Get a humidifier
Besides helping you feel better, a humidifier is skin’s best friend in the winter…it helps add moisture when the air is so dry! - Keep your chapstick handy
Lips tend to really look flakey when the weather is cold. Get a great lip treatment with ingredients like Vitamin E and Shea Butter. We LOVE Dermalogica Smart Mouth Lip Shine…it is part of their teen line, but works wonders for anyone’s lips! It’s also very inexpensive, and is packed full of extra goodies like Avocado and Rice Bran. Avoid any lip products with Mineral Oil…this can cause little breakouts along the lip line.
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Also, Fish Oil is a great way to moisturize from the inside out. I take about 5000 mg daily.
Drinking a ton of water is good to keep your skin hydrated as well.
Humidifiers are great. Also boiling a pot of water is good to keep your home’s moisture level up. Heat runs more efficiently since it heats the moisture in the air, which results in less air running through your heating fan.
Also plants are a good way to keep your home’s moisture level up. Misting them daily helps too.
For me, staying away from dairy also seems to help me retain moisture, though some disagree that is doesn’t congest or thicken mucus membranes…
The drier you are, the more likely your barriers will allow in some virus in the winter too.
And… stick with Chap Stick. Anything that says ‘medicated’, like Carmex or Blistex is habit-forming and you’ll have to use it more and more and at some point your lips will stop producing whatever it is that keeps them moisturized.
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