5 Tips on Dry Skin Care

It’s still winter, and in many geographic regions across the world, winter air is rather cold, windy and dry. In such conditions, our skin dries up as well, resulting in skin cracks, discomfort, and even premature aging. Here are some simple rules for those who want to have young and beautiful skin all year around.

Do Not Stay Too Long in the Bath

Once the weather gets cold and windy, many people find comfort in hot showers or half-an-hour baths. Yet, long “water” sessions present the shortest way to dry skin and cracks in the skin. Therefore, try to spend as little time in the shower as you can, and take warm showers rather than hot ones. Pay attention to your soap as well; regular soap bars will dry your skin the most, so you should switch to shower gels, in particular the special gels designed for sensitive or dry skin. When you get out the shower dry yourself up, but do not rub your skin with the towel too much, as it presents extra trauma for your skin. While the skin is still dump after the bath, apply some moisturizing cream, this way the cream will be more effective.

Dress According to the Weather

Dry skin is particularly sensitive and is prone to micro-traumas. Dry skin gets scratches, cracks easier as well as can create discomfort from practically any form of contact. Thus, it is crucial to reduce the number of micro-traumas your skin gets during winter season. In particular, try not to wear wool or polyester materials (spiky fibers will be either too massive for the body, or cause itching). Give preferences to soft materials, cotton, and silk. Whenever possible, wear baggy clothes.

Artificially Keep the Air Humid

Another reliable way to “cheat” the winter cold is by creating your own weather at home. To do this, buy an air ionizer and keep it at 30-50% humidity level.

Avoid Stress

It is a known fact, that stress can seriously affect our health. Furthermore, if the person suffers from psoriasis, then stress will be reflected on the skin in the form of ugly plaques. On the other hand, stress can affect healthy skin as well. The more the person is under stress, the less moisture his or her skin will be able to retain, hence the skin will get dry.

Watch Your Weight

Some studies show, that strict diets and vegetarian lifestyle improve one’s overall skin condition and relieve skin diseases. Yet, winter holidays is definitely not the period of the year when we watch our nutrition carefully. Even if your Christmas dinner does not pose that much threat to your waist people consume on average 6-7% more food during winter season. Try to avoid this trend, and go easy on the turkey, mashed potatoes, and pies during the season. In particular, go easy on alcohol, as well as fatty and diary foods.

5 Tips on Dry Skin Care

By: Blooger on: 9:48 AM

Avoid Scratching Dry Skin

When dry skin becomes irritating, it can drive you mad.

Not only does dry skin look unsightly, it tends to flake and become very sore looking, especially if you have scratched that area a lot.

Dry skin can become a problem for some people; they will constantly claw away at dry skin patches on their bodies and will carry on regardless making their situation worse.

In the winter months, some people find that their skin problems tend to flare up more, than any other time of the year and yet they cannot seem to find a solution to their condition.Dry skin does not just appear in one place, it can appear anywhere, on your arms, legs, stomach and back.

Constantly scratching your dry skin will only make it feel and look worse than it was before, it is hard to ignore the need to itch but you need to do something, in order to relieve yourself of the irritation.

There is a feeling of relief in scratching your dry skin when you see white flakes fall away, but this only adds to the problem rather than solve it.

The scratching of the scalp to relieve itching is easy to do but is unsightly when you look and find dandruff sitting on your shoulders.

The constant need to scratch your skin needs to be looked at, if it becomes too much, an ongoing problem with dry skin, can become worse and even infected. A visit to the doctor’s or a skin care expert can be helpful, if you find that your usual moisturizer is not helping matters.

You may find that you need to buy a cream specially made for very dry skin problems. People with skin problems such as eczema; tend to find these sorts of cream, a joy to use as they can provide instant relief to their dry skin patches.

Do not let your skin problems take over your life, there is help, if not cures available to you. One idea that you could consider and can help a little is to keep little pots of water in front of your central air heating outlet; when running hot, allow some water back into the atmosphere, as it is the lack of humidity in the air inside your home, which can cause and aggravate dry skin.

Also remember to apply some cream to your body, if you are prone to dry skin, once you have stepped out of the shower, this in turn, will help keep your skin feeling soft and supple.

Avoid Scratching Dry Skin

By: Blooger on: 11:44 AM