Winter skin care Tips

• The harsh cold climate and dry air can make your skin dry, itchy or irritated. So it’s important to give extra care to your skin in winters. Caring for skin in winter takes little extra time and effort because the conditions are rather extreme for our tender protective barrier. Skin gets exposed to different climatic changes in winters like cold air whipping wind sun reflecting off snow. 
• Low humidity is common in winters that stealing moisture from skin every second of every day. And indoors it’s blasted with dry heat. As a result of this our skin often ends up dry flaky and itchy. And because of dryness, your skin can easily crack and bleed.

Use of some tips for winter skin care can help you to maintain your skin healthy, glowing and good looking for all seasons.

1. Keep Moisturizing, Especially your Hands

• Maintain healthy skin by keep doing moisturizing.  Don’t forget to apply moisturizer on after bathing all over the body. You can also apply coconut oil. 
• A hand cream must apply after each washing can help. You can wear water proof gloves when washing dishes or cleaning around the house.
• Avoid long baths and showers and use warm water for bathing.

2. Apply Sunscreen — Even on Gray Winter Day

• In winter days, it is very important to protect your skin from the sunlight. Most of the people like to sit in sun light in winters but direct contact of sun rays to your skin can affect your skin and make your skin dull, cause tanning. So it’s necessary to apply sunscreen to protect your skin from harmful rays.
• Even on darker or cloudy days it’s important to apply sunscreen because the harmful UV rays can permeate clouds and still cause damage.
• So before you go outside, always apply a moisturizer and broad-spectrum sunscreen with an SPF of 15 or higher to all exposed areas of your body.

3. Wear Comfortable, Nonirritating Clothing

• Clothing also affects your skin. Many cold-weather fabrics can aggravate dry winter skin. Always wear woolen cloths of good fabric. You can also wear light layers made from soft, breathable materials directly against your skin, and then pull on your heavier, warmer sweaters.  
• Also protect your hands from cold winter air with gloves or mittens, remembering to choose a pair that won’t irritate your skin. If you prefer wool gloves, put on cotton or silk glove liners first.

4. Remember to Eat Right

• Always choose right food to eat. Sometimes when skin is very dry, it can be helped by foods or supplements that contain omega-3 or omega-6 fatty acids, such as fish oil and flax seed oil.

5. Stay Hydrated

• Take good amount of water to keep your skin moist. You can also take green tea or any herbal tea to keep yourself healthy and fresh.

6. Avoid alcohol intake

• Alcohol can increase inflammation in the skin and worsen many skin diseases, such as psoriasis, eczema etc. As Alcohol cause dehydration of the body and also disturbs sleep. This disturbs body’s natural equilibrium can make skin dull and tired and remembering to drink water to maintain general hydration.

7. Take enough sleep

• Taking good quality of sleep will help to maintain your skin healthy and in ideal shape.