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Winter Skin Care

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Winter is Stressful Time for Your Skin

In winter our skin is stressed by cold temperatures outdoors and low dehydrating humidity level indoors. As a result skin reacts with redness irritation, hypersensitivity. Do not ignore these symptoms as some of them may cause long-term damage such as appearance of signs of aging.

It is important to protect your skin and satisfy its needs during winter season.

Skin Care in Winter

Some guidelines for skin care in winter period

In winter our skin type ofthen shifts. If you have oily skin, it can become normal. If your skin type is normal it very probable that it will shift to dry in winter. Those who have dry type of skin suffer the most as it becomes hypersensitive, overreactive and can start flaking.

Skin care experts recommend to change your skin care for winter period and folow two main rules:
1. Use milder cleansing
2. Choose richer moisturizer

Cleansing in Winter

Choose milder cleansing products for winter

If you are using deep pore cleansers, foam gels, as well as cleansers based on soap ingredients, you need to stop for winter.

Intensive cleansing strips your skin of protective lipids that are so vital for skin's balance during the cold season.

Oily and Normal types should try using light milk or gel cleansers.

Dry types need to choose richer hydrating cleansing solutions such as milk or cream for dry sensitive skin.

Face Cleansing Products for Winter

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Winter Skin Care Rule: moisturize and protect to prevent dehydration 

Moisturizer for your Skin in Winter

Upgrade your moisturizer for the winter period

As we have mentioned most people's skin type shifts in winter. In additon, sometimes skin can show signs of two types. For example oily or combination skin can break out if the moisturizer is too rich but feel very dry when it is just alight fluid. In this case you can try light cream moisturizers or products marked gel-cream for winter.

Dry and normal skin types should go with a richer moisturizer marked "for dry skin" or "rich cream".

All the skin types should look for humectant and emollient ingredients when buying skin care for winter.

Emollients are especially important. They not only moisturize and soften your skin, but also form a protective layer on its surface. This helps to keep moisture locked in epidermis and prevents skin from dehydration.
Some examples of emollients to look for include: shea butter, squalene, lanolin, jojoba oil.

Moisturizers for Winter Season

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Dehydrated and Very Dry Skin in Winter


In winter, skin is especially susceptible to such conditions as dehydration and extreme dryness. Any skin type can get dehydrated.

Why does skin get dehydrated?
The reason is that cold/windy weather and dry indoors air cause skin't protective barrier to weaken and more water to evaporate from skin's surface. Here is a more detailed explanation on how skin gets dehydrated and what symptoms of dehydrated skin are.

Remember: "Oily" skin does not mean "hydrated" skin. Oil helps to coat the skin, create a protective layer to keep moisture inside.

Skin Care Products for Very Dry/Dehydrated Skin

Very dry and dehydrated skin might need some extra help in adition to a moisturizer

These serums can provide a kick-start to your fight agains dehydration and dryness.
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Lock Moisture In!

Restore the protective skin barrier and lock moisture in your skin

These products contains emollients and occlusives - ingredients that help to create a thin protective layer on your skin to prevent it from loosing moisture.
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Other Products to Keep your Skin Hydrated

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Extra Help for Dry and Dehydrated Skin: Facial Oils

Quick action for dry, dull, dehydrated winter skin!

Facial oils penetrate fast and deep into the skin and deliver much needed nutrition, vitamins and moisture.
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Skin Care Products Based on Olive Oil

Olive oil is especially effective in treating dry and dehydrated skin in winter

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Skin Care for Extreme Cold

Extra Skin Care for Outdoors in Winter

Are you a winter sport enthusiast or just like long walks in the fresh crispy winter air? Your skin will need some extra protection. It is hard to find specialized products for the freezing winds, colds and bright winter sun. We searched high and low!
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Outdoors Extra Care: Eye and Lip Skin Care in Winter

Additional protection for tender eye and lips area for outdoors in winter

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Body Care

Apply a moisturizing product right after a shower or a bath

First of all, it is recommended to avoid long hot baths and showers during winter as they strip the essential protective oils and lipids off the skin's surface and contribute to skin's dehydration.

Right after the shower/bath apply a moisturizing product with emollient ingredients which importance for winter was mentioned above.

If you cannot live without bubble baths make sure to add moisturizing oils to those: cocoa butter, shea butter, ilang ilang etc.

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