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The Best Skincare Tips for Surviving a Dry Climate
With the winter months now approaching, many people will find that their environment switches from humid to dry. While the cold temperatures and harsh weather conditions of the winter season may cause problems for your skin, that all-encompassing dryness tends to be the biggest challenge at this time of year.
What can you do to keep your skin looking dewy and glowy, even in a severely dry climate? Read on as Vine Vera shares some must-know skincare tips.
Always Begin With a Gentle Cleanse
We’re soon going to be discussing the various skincare products and ingredients you should be using to combat the effects of a dry climate. However, in order for all of those products to actually work as they should, you’ll need to begin by cleansing your face. This will remove the impurities, flaky cells, and more that cover your skin, ensuring that the rest of your products will be able to easily dive in and work their magic.
With that said, with a dry climate usually equating to drier skin, you need to be careful about your choice of cleanser. While powerful foaming cleansers may have been a necessity in the hot and humid months, a dry climate calls for a gentler touch. As you’ll soon learn, the last thing that you want to do is damage your skin barrier, which is exactly what will happen if you use an aggressive cleanser in a dry environment.
One way to ensure a gentle yet efficient cleanse is with the Vine Vera Resveratrol Cabernet Mousse Cleanser. Its coconut-derived surfactants condition the complexion while they cleanse. Meanwhile, the many moisturizing ingredients in this formula will keep your skin feeling soft and supple.
Learn How to Layer
The most prevalent skin issue in a dry climate is moisture loss. Dry air literally sucks the moisture out of your skin. The drier the environment around you is, the faster this will happen.
To prevent this, correctly layering your skincare is crucial. It ensures that each layer you apply is locked in by the next. If you incorporate hydrating ingredients into each layer, this will leave your skin feeling hydrated at a much deeper level, while also slowing down the rate at which moisture evaporates from your skin.
So, what’s the correct way to layer skincare products? The simplest rule to follow is to go from thinnest to thickest. This means that once your skin has been cleansed, you’d follow up with a toner, and then an essence, and then a serum or two. The final step would be to lock everything in with a rich face cream to ensure that you’ve created a solid seal over your skin’s surface, providing a strong barrier between your skin and the dry air around you.
Always Apply Humectants to Damp Skin
With moisture loss being such a big problem in a dry climate, one of the skincare tips that’s often repeated is to incorporate more hydrating ingredients into your skincare routine. Giving your skin access to extra moisture can help to compensate for some of the moisture that the skin loses.
Humectants, like the sodium hyaluronate and lactic acid in the Vine Vera Resveratrol Pinot Noir Longevity Serum, are the most hydrating group of ingredients out there. They attract moisture from the environment around them and bind that moisture to the skin. However, if the air around you is dry and doesn’t have any moisture to spare, the humectants that you apply to your skin will end up drawing moisture from the deeper layers of your skin and bringing it up to the surface. While that’s great for your skin’s surface layer, it causes those deeper cells – the ones responsible for the core functions that occur in your skin – to dehydrate.
This doesn’t mean that you should stop using humectants when the weather turns dry – they really are some of the best hydrators around. Instead, simply make sure that your skin is damp when you apply them. This gives them a nearby moisture source to draw from, saving them from having to pull moisture away from the deeper layers of your skin.
Build Up Your Barrier
The constant moisture loss that your skin has to deal with in a dry climate can cause havoc to your skin barrier. Over time, that barrier will weaken, which only exacerbates the moisture loss while causing a whole host of other skin problems.
This is why one of the most important skincare tips to follow when dealing with a dry environment is to focus on your skin barrier. Seek out ingredients that work to leave that barrier feeling stronger, thicker, and more resilient. Not only will this help to slow moisture loss down, but it will also reduce the appearance of sensitivities, redness, inflammation, and more.
Which ingredients should you be looking out for? Ceramides and peptides are known for being some of the best. Hydrating ingredients and antioxidants also leave the skin barrier feeling bolstered and more capable of functioning optimally.
If you’re looking for a product that brings all of that together, check out the Vine Vera Chianti Revival Serum. Not only will it do the world of good for your skin barrier, but it will also minimize the appearance of fine lines, wrinkles, and discoloration.
Cut Back on Exfoliation
In addition to using the right ingredients to keep your skin barrier supported, you’ll also need to ensure that your skincare routine isn’t damaging your skin barrier in any way. Exfoliation is notorious for doing this, which is why one of the skincare tips that you’ll need to follow is to cut back on how often you exfoliate.
When it’s warm and humid, your skin produces a higher amount of sebum and sweat. This is why clogged pores and breakouts are more prevalent during the summer. However, once humidity levels drop, sebum production declines too, meaning that you won’t need to exfoliate quite so often. Doing so will only lead to over-exfoliation. This will harm your skin barrier, along with other aspects of your skin’s health.
So, how often should you be exfoliating in a dry climate? This all depends on your skin type. Dry and sensitive skin types may only need to exfoliate once a week, whereas those with combination or oily skin will likely need a bit more than this. Stick with a gentle exfoliator, like the Vine Vera Resveratrol Vitamin C Peeling, rather than an overly harsh formula. Pay attention to how your skin responds to your exfoliation efforts, so that you can adjust things as needed.
Boost Moisture With a Mask
A hydrating daily skincare routine is the best way to ensure that a dry environment doesn’t cause your skin to dry out. However, sometimes your skin may need a bit more than this. Investing in a moisture-boosting face mask that provides super-intense hydration could give your skin the extra moisture it needs to truly thrive.
What type of face mask should you be looking for? Most of the skincare tips out there recommend hydrating sheet masks, like the Vine Vera Pinot Noir Anti-Aging Luminating Face & Eye Mask. The way in which they provide a physical barrier for a while between your skin and the dry environment around you, while also pushing in a blend of hydrating ingredients, can leave the skin looking luminescent straight away.
However, there are other types of hydrating face masks worth considering too. Magnetic masks, for instance, are surprisingly hydrating. With the Vine Vera Resveratrol Malbec DNA Magnetic Mask, a light layer of oil is left behind when the mask is removed. With this consisting of a mixture of hemp seed oil, marula oil, baobab oil, and other antioxidant-rich oils, it’s great for moisturizing the skin too.
Leave-on masks can be useful as well, especially overnight. This is when moisture loss is at its highest, meaning that it’s also when your skin would really benefit from some extra moisture. With a hydrating overnight mask, like the Vine Vera Resveratrol Pinot Noir Phyto-Silk Mask, you’ll easily be able to quench those thirsty skin cells while you sleep.
Stop Taking Hot Showers
While most of our skincare tips are related to skincare ingredients and products, other aspects of your lifestyle affect your skin too. Your showering habits, for example, directly impact your skin. If the climate that you find yourself in happens to be both dry and cold, then chances are that you enjoy indulging in a hot shower each day. This, however, is one of the worst things that you could be doing to your skin.
What’s wrong with hot showers? Hot water melts the sebum on your skin. Not only does this sebum make up an integral part of your skin’s protective barrier, but it also moisturizes and conditions the skin. Allow hot water to strip it away, and the moisture loss will really start to increase.
Although a lukewarm shower may not feel quite as luxurious, this is a much better temperature for your skin. Once you’re done, don’t forget to immediately give the skin on your body some attention. As we mentioned earlier, hydrating ingredients are much more effective on damp skin. So, while your skin is still damp from your shower, slather on a hydrating body cream, like the Vine Vera Intensive Shea Body Butter. The richness of this moisturizer, along with its fatty acid content, will make it much easier for the skin on your body to cope with the dry climate you’re in. After all, it’s not just your face that deserves good skincare!
Caring for Your Skin With Vine Vera
There’s no denying that a dry climate poses a number of skincare challenges. However, with the right skincare tips and products by your side, you’ll be able to give your skin all that it needs to look and feel its very best, no matter what the environment around you may be like.
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