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Important Information Regarding Dry Skin

To help prevent that "dry skin" look this winter, take steps to get your skin into shape after the summer sun and water exposure have depleted precious moisture and nutrients, "moisturize, moisturize, moisturize".

Here are helpful tips to keep in mind to make the most of your moisturizing experience:

• Don't over bathe
  What you do need to understand is that whenever you take a bath or shower, as the wash water evaporates from the skin, it takes valuable moisture from the epidermis with it leaving skin vulnerable. What you can do is cut down on the frequency of daily bathing (yes, there are people who through either personal hygiene habits or their jobs bathe more than once a day). Towel dry very well so you can get this bath water off your skin before evaporation has the opportunity to leave your skin dehydrated.


• Add bath oil
  If you like taking a bath, one way to help hydrate your skin is to add bath oil into your water. It's luxurious, helps leave the skin feeling quite smooth and some contain aromatherapy ingredients to create a relaxing mood. Bath oils also come in therapeutic formulations. Remember... when using any bath oil... they make your tub slippery! For those of you who would rather not bathe than get into the tub, nothing says you cannot apply splash some oil onto your skin while you shower.


• Carry extra hand cream with you
  Have you ever thought about how many times you wash your hands a day? Constant contact with the water, not to mention harsh, often antibacterial soaps can cause dry cuticles, fragile nails and painful finger splits. To prevent this, carry some extra hand cream with you and apply after every hand washing.


• Moisturize immediately after washing
  Evaporation happens every day to your skin, particularly during cold, dry winter months. After you towel dry, increase the moisture content in your skin by applying a hydrating body cream


• Moisturize more than once daily
  Multiple applications of moisturizer will help speed up hydration and skin healing for anyone whose dry skin has gotten out of control. It is not uncommon to apply a moisturizer 4 or 5 times a day for a week to see a significant rapid improvement in symptoms.


• Environment
  Once you turn on the heat, the air becomes very dry in your environment if you don't have a humidifier on the furnace. Or you can have individual room humidifiers. Winter air lacks the humidity that mother nature provides the rest of the year. If you can, humidify your environment, your skin will thank you for it.


• Stop itching
  Dry skin is often itchy skin. There is nothing harder to break than the itch-scratch cycle. Preventing the formation of dry skin is the best option but when this cycle has started, make sure you attack the symptoms of itching along with the dry skin. The more you scratch, the more the inflamed skin will itch and the harder it will be to heal the affected area. Oral antihistamines and topical anesthetics help keep your from scratching your skin raw.

Avoid rough, dry cracked skin this year by planning ahead.
Moisturize, moisturize, moisturize!