Winter is here, and let’s face it—it’s not good for your skin. Harsh winds, cold temperatures, and dry air tend to zap skin of its natural oils, leaving it dry and stressed. Learning how to prepare your skin for winter is a must.
Unfortunately, it’s not only the weather that can challenge your winter skin care. Stress around the news, changes in routine, and eating more sugar and fat than usual (which can happen in response to a lack of sunlight) can cause an occasional breakout, tightness, and dullness.
You can help reduce these effects by taking some precautions in your daily winter skin care routine. Try these 10 winter skin care tips.
1. Change It Up
The first thing to learn in how to take care of your skin in winter is to know that your summer skin care routine will not cut it in the winter. Your skin will probably need more moisture more often. If you usually use a lotion, you may need to switch to a cream. We suggest using our Coconut Honey Mask a couple times a week to replenish lost moisture, and our Radiant Skin Silk Body Lotion is great for an all-over softer feel.
2. Choose Your Cleanser Carefully
Cleansers can strip your skin of natural oils, dry it out, and over time, lead to more visible lines and wrinkles. Read more about how to choose the right cleanser for your skin type.
3. Exfoliate in the Winter
Exfoliating brings back that youthful glow that is so often lost during the winter months. Try our Kaolin Microexfoliant once or twice a week.
4. Protect Your Skin from the Sun
Winter weather appears to be less sunny, but remember—those harmful UV rays are still out there. So one of the important beauty tips in the winter season is to always protect your skin with a safe sunscreen like one that contains zinc oxide, and wear protective hats and clothing.
5. Shorten Your Showers
Hot water feels great in the winter, but it saps the skin of its natural oils. Try to limit your long, hot showers and baths to once or twice a week, and choose lukewarm the other times. Always apply moisturizer immediately after patting skin dry.
6. Eat Right (most of the time)
Simple sugars and carbohydrates stimulate reactions in skin that can lead to more acne breakouts. Avoid these during your daily life and you’ll experience fewer setbacks when you indulge at the holidays.
7. Wear Gloves
Our hands suffer the most during the winter—usually because we’re washing them more often to avoid the germs that can cause infections. Take your organic moisturizers with you and apply regularly, and wear gloves to protect the skin on your hands from the harsh winter weather is another way to prepare your skin for winter.
8. Use a Humidifier
As winter comes, the air dries out. The dryer the air, the more it steals moisture from your skin. If you live in a dry climate, use a humidifier, particularly in your bedroom at night.
9. Rejuvenate
The winter months are a great time to provide your skin with more nutrients so it can better withstand winter stress. Try our Citrus Stem Cell Serum before your regular moisturizer every night.
10. Try a Sugar Scrub on Lips
Chapped lips are the bane of winter living. Get rid of that dry, flaky skin with a homemade sugar scrub. Simply mix some regular sugar with some jojoba, coconut, or safflower oil, and rub gently on the lips once a day. Add a little honey for healing properties. Follow up with a nourishing lip balm.
You can also check out our Restore beauty & Seasonal collection, which is perfect for supporting your skin in the dry winter weather.
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These are great tips, which we all, male and female, need to practice! Winter is in full force in Chi-Town; a blizzard going on, and I can put some of these into practice today! Thanks…