What are the tricks that help to maintain a healthy winter skin?

For many people cold days have the quite unpleasant effect on skin, which is showing in this way : appear dry hands, face and legs. Felt by some as a tight feeling in the skin, sometimes dry skin can cause cracking and events such as skin rashes or eczema. The sensation of dryness is accentuated whenever we enter a heated room.

Tricks to treat dry skin throughout the winter!

Skin hydration

It is possible to have a moisturizer that is precisely during the spring or summer. But as the seasons change, and our skin needs to change. Winter is appropriate to use a moisturizer with a fatty consistency, oil-based rather than a water-based, because oil will produce a protective film which hold moisture in the skin, this does not happen when we use creams with fine texture or lotions.

But we must be alert to the type of oil content moisturizer, because not all can be beneficial to the skin. Very useful are oils of almond, the minerals, avocado oil or Primula. Should pay attention to this issue, because other oils may have an undesirable effect of occlusion of facial pores.

It also indicated, and products containing wetted, a class of substances that draw moisture from the environment and set the water to the skin. These substances are glycerol, sorbitol and alpha-hydroxy acids.

Use protective creams

 PhotoCream - Solar protection screen - not to be used only in summer, in winter, sunlight in combination with the one reflected by the snow can affect the skin equally. Therefore it is appropriate to apply a protective cream on the face and the hands (when not wearing gloves ) 30 minutes before going outside the house. If we spend more time outdoors, applications must be renewed every two hours.

Pay attention to your hands!

Top Hands skin is thinner than that of many other areas of the body, and has fewer sebaceous glands, which means that at this level hydration is always poor, and this aspect is accentuated particularly in air cool and dry. Thus, small cracks may appear in the skin, irritation or itching.When you step out in the open, you should wear gloves, if they are to from wool is well to wear inside a thin cotton glove to prevent the appearance of irritation that can be caused by wool.Avoid wet gloves or socks !Wet socks or gloves can cause skin irritation, cracking, pain or even the appearance of eczema, very difficult to treat.

Avoid dry air in the room

In most rooms, heated winter air is dry, so it is recommended using a humidifier or vaporizer to increase air humidity, so the skin does not have to suffer. It is advisable to have a humidifier in each room to ensure an equal distribution of moisture in the air.

Hydration not limited to the skin

Even if we grant enough attention to skin hydration,we should not be overlooked that it is indicated to drink plenty of fluids.