The Ultimate Guide to Winter Skin Care
The cold and dry winter months can wreak havoc on even the healthiest skin. Between low humidity, bitter winds, and dry indoor heat, it’s the easiest time of year for skin to become cracked and irritated. To promote skin health and maintain radiant skin during the winter, you should use a reliable daily skin care routine.
Follow this daily total body skin care routine to protect your skin this winter.
Morning
Start your day with CeraVe Hydrating Cleanser, a dermatologist-developed deep skin cleansing solution. Its patented MultiVesicular Emulsion Technology (MVE) formula gradually releases the ingredients over an extended period. Try this product to help to cleanse, hydrate, and restore your skin’s natural protective barrier.
Mornings are all about cleansing and moisturizing to prepare your skin for harsh winter weather and indoor heating.
Facial Cleanser
Antioxidant Serum
For additional protection, add serums that contain Vitamin C in your daily regimen, like Essano Brightening Vitamin C. Vitamin C is an antioxidant, scavenging free radicals that cause inflammation. It may brighten your complexion, promote collagen production and reduce wrinkles.
Products that contain hyaluronic acid, such as Essano Hyaluronic Acid, help to hydrate the skin, soothe dryness and improve skin elasticity. For best results, use in the morning and evening, followed by a moisturizer.
Body Scrub Exfoliator
Those with very dry skin and flaky or ashy skin can benefit from Tree Hut Shea Sugar Scrub, which helps to improve skin elasticity, balance and help hydrate dry skin. Tree Hut is a natural exfoliant that effectively polishes away dead skin while helping to boost circulation to the skin surface.
Moisturizer is the most critical step in your winter skin care routine. Choose a moisturizer with SPF 15 or higher to protect against harmful UV rays (which can be more intense in snowy areas). You should also opt for a moisturizer with emollient ingredients like plant oils, shea butter, and cocoa butter to seal in moisture.
For oily skin, the cold outdoor air and dry indoor heating can increase sebum production, causing breakouts. Balance your skin with a lightweight facial moisturizing lotion like Sky Organics Youth Boost Moisturizing Marula Face Lotion. Formulated with organic marula oil, manuka honey, and bakuchiol (natural retinol), this lotion absorbs quickly into your skin, giving you a smooth, even complexion.
Managing combination skin can be challenging in winter; excess oil along the T-zone and dryness on your cheeks can mean you experience breakouts, itching, and flaking simultaneously. CeraVe Daily Moisturizing Lotion is a lightweight and deeply nourishing product to balance and illuminate your skin for a healthy glow.
Low humidity can cause dry skin to become itchy and flaky. Support your dry skin with Essano Rosehip Moisturizer. The rich formula is made with 98.6% natural ingredients, including certified-organic rosehip oil, to nourish your skin at a cellular level.
Facial Moisturizer
To counter mid-day skin dryness, lip balms and healing ointments can quickly nourish and rejuvenate your skin and are small enough to fit in your purse or bag.
Daytime
To keep your lips plump and hydrated, use tinted lip balms as an alternative to drying lipstick and sticky glosses. Burt's Bees 100% Natural Tinted Lip Balm is made with shea butter and botanical waxes to nourish and hydrate your lips for up to eight hours. Choose a flattering tinted shade for a pop of color, or go natural with a sunscreen-infused balm.
Tinted Lip Balm
If you have sensitive skin, don’t leave the house without Aquaphor Healing Ointment. This multi-purpose ointment works wonders on dry feet and heels, cracked cuticles, and chapped lips. Clinically proven to restore your skin to health, this ointment is completely fragrance and dye-free so that it can protect and enhance the healing of even the most sensitive skin.
Intensive Repair Moisturizer
Before bed, set aside some time to dedicate to skin care. The evenings are the perfect time for a face mask; sleep is when your skin heals itself, increases collagen production, and boosts cell renewal.
Night
We recommend our new Skin Republic Hyaluronic Acid + Collagen Mask, a youth-activating sheet mask that helps boost your natural collagen levels for smooth and young-looking skin. In under 20 minutes, this mask smooths the appearance of wrinkles and lines while hydrating the skin.
Repair Mask
Keep your skin hydrated while you sleep with Burt's Bees Truly Glowing Replenishing Night Face Cream. This rich face cream uses 98.9% natural origin ingredients and is formulated without parabens, phthalates, petrolatum, or SLS.
Night Cream
The skin around your eyes is susceptible to moisture loss and temperature fluctuations. Using an eye cream each night encourages cell renewal to hydrate and firm your under-eyes while you sleep.
e.l.f. Illuminating Eye Cream is formulated with natural ingredients, including cucumber and green tea extracts, jojoba oil, and shea butter to soothe, de-puff, and soften your eye area.
Eye Cream
After implementing a new skin care routine, it takes time to notice a difference in your skin. Consistency is critical, and eventually, your skin will show the results.
Follow daily habits for healthy skin to complement your skin care routine by filling your diet with vitamin-rich foods and antioxidants.
To learn more about the benefits of Vitamin C, hyaluronic acid, and ceramides, check out our beauty page ingredient spotlights.
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