3 beauty life hacks that will save your skin in the cold

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Even if you won the genetic lottery, skin health needs to be maintained with special treatments. If this is not about you, then careful care is especially necessary. Moreover, in such a harsh time - the off-season, when the temperature difference outside and indoors can exceed 20 degrees. We tell you what your skin needs - today and forever.

What does your skin suffer from in the cold?

Both the piercing November wind and dry indoor air make the skin especially vulnerable. She seems to be suffering from dryness, although in reality the problem is her dehydration. These concepts are often used interchangeably, although there is a significant difference between them. Dry skin is a lack of natural fats, while dehydration is a lack of moisture.

Our skin has a lipid barrier that traps harmful substances and slows down the evaporation of water. When the lipid barrier is damaged, and this can happen due to very dry air, moisture from the skin evaporates faster and you feel tight. Foundations "roll off" by the middle of the day, and the face takes on a dull color, and peeling may appear on the skin. To cope with this problem, you need to hydrate the skin and help keep it in the lipid barrier. This is the main thing to pay attention to during the cold season, without missing other basic skin care procedures.

How to take good care of your skin: three main steps

1. Gentle cleansing

This is necessary in order to wash off sweat, dust, makeup residues and excess oil from the skin. Cleansing should be thorough but gentle. You should not wash your face "until it squeaks": this violates the protective barrier of the skin, and it loses moisture faster.

For cleansing, it is better to choose cosmetics with a mild, non-aggressive composition, usually the names use the words "delicate", "moisturizing", "nutritious". The type of product - gel, foam or milk - does not matter and depends on your preferences.

If you are using makeup, first dissolve it with a makeup remover: micellar water, hydrophilic oil, balm or milk. Products with oils in the composition do well with dissolution and do not dry the skin. Use a foam or gel to wash off makeup and remover. Do not use hot water to cleanse your face, especially in the off-season: it washes away fats from the skin well and makes cleansing more aggressive.

Life hack

For those looking to take care of their skin in the cold to a new level, you should take a closer look at the cleansing brushes for the skin of the face, which thoroughly, but not aggressively, help cleanse the skin and remove dead cells.

The host of Lifehacker's YouTube channel, Irina Rogava, tested such a beauty assistant - the FOREO LUNA 3 brush. As it turned out, in addition to cleansing, this gadget has another important function that will help save money on beauty salons. With this brush, you can massage different areas of the face, neck and décolleté. In general, the use of such gadgets promotes better penetration of care products. Learn about Irina's impressions of the unusual device from this video.

Using FOREO LUNA 3 is easy: apply a mild cleanser to your face, wet the brush and turn on the cleansing mode. Move the device over your face in a circular motion for a minute. Rinse your face with water, pat it dry with a soft towel and move on to the next step - moisturizing.

Impressed and want the same gadget? Look for it in Moscow and St. Petersburg, and also order on the store's website.

2. Gentle exfoliation

This stage is needed in order to remove dead cells from the skin surface. If you skip exfoliation, then all subsequent care procedures will be useless: the nutrients from the cosmetics will simply be absorbed into the stratum corneum.

There are two main ways to exfoliate:

• mechanical - products with abrasive elements (for example, cream for washing with peach pits),
• chemical - cosmetics with special substances (for example, peeling with fruit acids).

How often you need to exfoliate in cold weather depends on your skin type. If it is oily or combined, you can use a mild peel with a low to medium concentration of acids almost daily. If the skin is dry, then such products should be applied no more than twice a week. In the cold season, it is better not to get carried away with products with abrasive particles. It's so easy to overdo it and break the skin's lipid barrier.

3. Intensive hydration

Dehydrated skin must be thoroughly moisturized. Use products with water-retaining ingredients immediately after washing. These products are usually liquid and come in the form of a tonic, lotion, serum, toner, or essence. Apply them to damp skin to help retain water. And then the moisture needs to be "sealed" with a layer that will prevent rapid evaporation: use a moisturizer that suits your skin type. Creams that help work the natural lipid barrier can be identified by the barrier repair label on the packaging.

Life hack

Take care of hydration from the inside: monitor the water-salt balance, drink and do not get thirsty. It is important not to overdo it: too much water at night will provoke swelling in the morning.

Help your skin by turning on a humidifier often. Modern devices come in different sizes. So, room humidifiers will maintain the necessary humidity during the night, and compact humidifiers compensate for the dryness of office air.

Morning and evening skin care will take less time than reading this article. And the lack of moisture, discomfort and feeling of tightness will cease to bother you, even if the weather application promises "-5, it feels like an ice storm in the Arctic."