Winter Skincare Tips: From Head to Toe


October 30, 2014


Well dryness is a common problem which almost everyone faces in the winter season. Be it your hair or your skin, dryness prevails everywhere. The whipping winds, the icy temperature and the sudden change in temperature when you step inside a heating room can cause dryness and aggravate it. The protective barriers of the skin get cracked during the chilly season and the skin may lose the ability to repair itself. Thus extra care has to be taken to keep the keep supple and moisturized. The following are some amazing tips to take care of your skin in winters.

• For Extra Dry Skin
For extra dry skin on areas like the upper arms, it is advisable to use a lotion containing salicylic acid which helps to exfoliate the dead skin cells near the hair follicles. This also helps to reduce the appearance of bumps and provides relief from dryness.

• For Parched Hands
Hands and palms often become parched due to dryness during the winter season. To prevent this, you can use a soap free cleanser and alcohol free hand sanitizers. These products are much less drying than soap and water and thus help during the winter months.

• Glove Up
When you wash your hands and apply lotion or hand cream on them, then this moisturization gets reduced as you go on doing the chores of the day. To make sure that the moisture of your hands doesn’t rub away, you can wear cotton gloves for about an hour. These will help you soften your skin and will not rob the skin from the moisture of the lotion.

Honey Mask

• Use Honey
Honey is one of the best natural cures to treat dry skin during winter months. If you have any stubborn patches of dryness like over the elbows or the knees etc., then you can rub a scrub made using honey. For this, you can either mix such sugar with honey or make a pack using gram flour and honey. Honey reduces inflammation and has many other benefits for the skin as well.

• Use Milk
Did you know that Cleopatra, the queen and the beauty used to bathe in milk? Well, you too can use milk over your body to reduce the dryness and make the skin supple during the dry months of winter season. Milk contains lactic acid which is a fantastic moisturizer. It makes the scaly appearance of the skin go away and is a powerful exfoliates as well.

• Exfoliate Lightly
Gentle exfoliation, done on a regular basis can also be an effective way to take care of your skin during winters. Not only does this adds the needed nourishment but also brightens the skin. You can use a gentle scrub or exfoliator and use it all over the body.

• For The Feet
One of the parts of the body which experiences maximum dryness is your feet. Before going to bed, make sure you use a hydrating scrub for your feet and rub it with a pumice stone. Use a thick and buttery moisturizer or foot lotion to seal in the moisture and skin the feet smooth and crack free.

• Oil Up
Natural oils like olive oil, sunflower oil, sesame oil and evening primrose oil are amazing for the skin and for the hair as far as the months of winter are concerned. These oils can be used on the skin to remove the patchy appearance and can also be massaged into the hair to make them less dry and more nourished. After washing the oil off the skin, use a good lotion to cover the skin up further and prevent the impact of the dry winds.

Oil Massage

• Take Short Hot Showers
Hot showers may seem really irresistible during winters but make sure that you don’t take long hot showers. Do not take hot showers more than once a day during winters and limit their length to about 15 minutes.

• Pick The Right PJs
The clothes that you sleep in also determine the level of dryness that you will experience during winters and hence picking the right PJs is really important. It is better to sleep in soft pajamas and sheets. The best material is cotton and especially for those suffering from skin problems like eczema.