Skin care in winter: how to properly care for your face and body, rules, advice from a cosmetologist
With the arrival of lower temperatures, the need to pay attention to daily care products increases. Sometimes this is an urgent need, dictated by a feeling of tightness of the skin, often itching and peeling.
Comments by the chief production technologist, founder of the cosmetic brand ZAMOTIN MANUFACTURA Elena Zamotina.
With the arrival of lower temperatures, the need to pay attention to daily care products increases. Sometimes this is an urgent need, dictated by a feeling of tightness of the skin, often itching and peeling.
What happens to the skin and how to maintain a healthy, moisturized cover, especially on exposed areas of the body, especially such as the hands or face?
The effects of low temperatures combined with dry indoor air, aggravated by low humidity, as well as a deficiency of vitamin D and a number of other vitamins in the daily diet lead to rapid dehydration of the epidermis.
Which entails pronounced peeling, redness, itching, accompanied by painful symptoms and deep cracks.
Of course, the skin of the face and the skin of the hands have specific features, which are based on concern for the safety and effectiveness of the compositions used in cosmetics, but in both cases there are general rules for shifting the emphasis for winter care.
The first and one of the most important misconceptions is that moisturizing your skin in winter is prohibited. Forget this myth! In winter, more than ever, your skin needs intensive, deep moisturizing. Shift your attention to more occlusive bases of night and day creams, as well as creams used as a makeup base.
The cream should be thicker than in the warm season, oily, saturated with lipids, lanolin, petroleum jelly and other occlusive components, providing not only nutrition, but also creating a protective barrier against the aggressive effects of the environment, effectively retaining moisture and creating the basis for normalizing the lipid balance.
The stage of evening facial cleansing is also important in the daily skin care ritual. Here, too, it is worth shifting the focus of your attention, but in this case, the opposite!
From denser textures, we recommend switching to light foams, easily washed off gels, and paying attention to the presence of softening components that restore and support the skin microbiome.
After cleansing, saturate your face with intensively moisturizing serums based on hyaluronic acids or softener, after applying the moisturizer, use an occlusive cream. If you have a hard time with thick, oily compositions on your face, apply it pointwise to areas prone to chapping (injury).
For hands, use the lightest possible structures containing low-molecular oils, lipids and enzymes, pay attention to natural antioxidants. The lightest possible structure will provide comfort of rapid absorption, high-quality composition - effective moisturizing of the epidermis of the skin of the hands, relieve itching and peeling, eliminate redness.
Do not neglect barrier protection in the form of gloves in the cold season, protect your hands from excess moisture, since it is in conditions of increased dryness of heated rooms that the hydrolysis process occurs and moisture, evaporating from the surface of the skin, evaporates moisture from the scales of the epidermis, thereby dehydrating and injuring the stratum corneum of the skin, causing peeling.
Taking care of yourself is the key to beautiful skin on your face and hands. Skin that is exposed to trauma is prone to deep wrinkles and is prone to inflammation and pigmentation.
