The holiday season and dry skin go hand in hand. During the winter months, the air outside becomes cold and dry while the indoor heating systems dry out the air in our living spaces. Unfortunately, we can’t give up the warmth or prevent the cold wind from hitting our faces, especially in the holiday season when we are often out shopping for presents or traveling. However, with few simple winter skincare tips, it’s possible to avoid dry, cracked, and flaky skin to a great extent. Here’s how to prevent dry skin during the holidays no matter where you live.
Keep Your Skin Well-Hydrated
Hydrating your skin is essential, especially when you reach your mid-20s because around that time, your skin begins to lose its natural ability to retain moisture. It needs to be hydrated regularly both from inside and outside. The first step is to drink an adequate amount of water and then use products with hydrating ingredients. This is one of the simplest winter skincare tips. Ingredients such as hyaluronic acid, glycerin, and panthenol can help your dry skin by preventing transepidermal water loss.
Tweak Your Diet
The connection between your gut and skin is real. At this time of the year, eating water-rich food and healthy fats such as walnuts, almonds, olive oil, and avocados can do wonders for your overall skin health.
While consuming such healthy foods, it’s best to cut back on caffeine and alcohol as they are diuretics known for causing dehydration. Minimize the use of processed foods as far as possible, and choose healthy, natural substitutes that will nourish your skin from within.
Use a Heavy Moisturizer
Once you add water to your skin, you need a good, heavy moisturizer to lock the water in.
A heavy moisturizer isn’t necessarily greasy or sticky. It’s just rich in good humectants, emollients, and occlusives. It’s also best to use moisturizing creams and lotions just after showering so that they can keep the post-shower moisture from evaporating. If you ask an experienced medspa expert how to prevent dry skin, a moisturizer will be on the top of their list of suggestions.
Gently Exfoliate Your Skin
Exfoliation can prevent dry or flaky skin by removing dead skin cells sitting on the skin’s surface and triggering healthy cell turnover. But, for dry skin, harsh physical exfoliators are a big no-no!
We recommend chemical exfoliators as they gently yet deeply exfoliate the skin without damaging the natural moisture barrier. During the holiday season, you can also select an exfoliation hydration facial – a unique blend of exfoliation and hydration, designed to rescue dry, compromised skin and make it glow from the inside out.
Use a Humidifier
Dry air equals dry skin. A cool air humidifier keeps the indoor air moist and skin-friendly. So, besides following the above mentioned winter skincare tips, you might want to consider investing in a humidifier and placing it in the room where you spend the most time. Alternatively, you may consider using specialized moisturizing products from a qualified medical spa according to the directions of your aesthetician.
Team up Our Winter Skincare Tips With a Medspa Skin Treatment
While these winter skincare tips help, they can’t substitute for professional treatments. No matter how severely dry your skin is, at DermaClinic, our highly qualified and skilled professionals will make sure you can walk back out with soft, smooth, holiday-ready skin. To make an appointment, you may contact us HERE or give us a call today at 786-224-7126.
