Winter Skincare Tips for Radiant Skin

Winter season brings some magical aura, some sudden changes in the climate like occasional snowfall. Cool air, coolness seen in only in winter, so everyone excited for enjoying this season, but with these all magic some drastic changes and harsh effect happen to our body and skin. So that we need some Winter Skincare Tips.

         This season sets number of unique challenges for our skin. We face low humidity, cold climate, and low temperature, due to this another issue created that is indoor dryness, this is occurred due to the indoor heating, it leads to skin dryness issues, irritation.

         If you want to maintain a beautiful, healthy and glowing skin in this particular season, it’s important to adapt skincare routine and formulas according to surrounding weather.

        Winter skincare requires a gentle approach to maintain plump and healthy skin during the season. Embrace the following Winter Skincare Tips and routine and enjoy your hydrated, plump beautiful and healthy skin.

Understanding Winter Skin Challenges

Before jumping into the skincare routine, that is very important to understand winter comes with some specific challenges and changes in the climate.

• Dryness: Cold air having less moisture as compare to warm air, warm air contains more moisture. This cold air can lead to dry skin. If you set indoor heating system, it will decrease the humidity levels, and create skin dryness.
• Chapped Lips: Lips are mainly unsafe part of the body in the winter season. Often it will cracked and more dryness seen, because this is the most sensitive part of our human body which affected very fast by outer climate.
• Flakiness and Redness: In this season different type of combined issue occurs, such as cold wind and dry indoor air are responsible for flakiness and redness, as well as irritation, some sensitivity issue also seen in that period.
• Itching: Due to the dry skin, skin itching issue may be occurs, it feels very uncomfortable, and leading to eczema issues.
• Dehydration: In winter your skins natural glow can be compromised due to sudden changes in the climate, then making it difficult to maintain it. Dehydration is one of the most important issue in winter, don’t ignore it.

Winter Skincare Tips

• Hydrate Inside Out– Hydration is one of the most important step to keep your skin healthy, you can call this is the first step towards skincare. Drinking more and sufficient water is one of the most important point, drink minimum 4 liter water in a day, its minimum range, you can drink four liter plus, depending upon your body capacity. You can also use humidifier at home, it can help you to maintain room moisture in the air, preventing your skin getting dryness issue and irritation. 
• Gentle Cleansing-Always use hydrating cleanser in winter season, which hydrate your skin 24/7, and helping to stabilize your skins natural oil. Foaming cleanser are harmful in winter season, please avoid it. Use cleansers which having ingredients like glycerin, ceramides and hyaluronic acid, which is very helpful to maintain moisture in skin.
• Exfoliate Wisely-Exfoliation is the one formula that help us to removing dead skin cells and allowing your moisturizer to enter in better way. In the winter season skin exfoliation Is very important, on the regular basis, regular means not daily, some words having some specific meanings, you can better understand. Always try to use mild exfoliant. and the limit of exfoliation is 1 to 2 times in a week, don’t over use this process, it will not good for skin health, results over sensitizing your skin.

• Moisturize, Moisturize, Moisturize & Moisturize-Wholesome moisturizer is a must in your skincare arsenal, especially in winter season is must. Check out the products contains shea butter and glycerin to help lock moisture in the skin. If your skin is extremely dry then use ointment based moisturizer. Don’t ignore this tips.
• Protect Your Lips:-In the winter season needs some extra care of lips, this is not a big task, its daily routine care, after using this routine you will get better smoothening on lips, and you can’t believe your lips smoothness. Always use hydrating lip balm, which having contains shea butter, natural oils and beeswax. In a day use 3 to 4 times, now lip balm available like lipstic packaging, its very easy to use and carry. Anyone can use easily, women or men can also use in daily routine. In metro cities both gender human use this lip balm, but now a days in rural areas number of people don’t know still this tips, so everyone needs to take care of lip, there may be different ways to hydrate lips, in villages goat milk uses to hydrate lips, at the time of sleeping they uses a goat milk for lips. But this is a one home remedy and its also very effective, goat milk having properties to moisturize skin/lips.
• Sunscreen is Still Essential-In a winter season sun not feel as strong, sun heat not like other same as other seasons. But UV rays also damage your skin. Use minimum SPF 30 or SPF 40 sunscreen which is minimum required in this season, on exposed skin of body parts, including your hands, face, neck and other areas like figure, neck back area also.
• Avoid Hot Showers-Always avoid hot water showers in winter, mostly in winter season we take bath with the help of hot water, there is reason also of cool climate, but its not good for your skin health. Hot water bath strip your skin natural oils, causes dryness of skin. Use lukewarm water for bath. After taking bath don’t forget to use a good quality moisturizer of exposed body skin, to lock moisture in the skin. 
• Incorporate Hydrating Serums-For an extra Hydrating boost for your skin always use hydrating serum in daily routine, add serum contains vitamin E, hyaluronic acid or niacinamide, which helps to lock moisture in the skin and soften it.
• Eye Creams and Night Creams– The skin around eye is very delicate and becomes very dry during winter. Use an eye cream with hydrating and anti-aging ingredients like ceramides and peptides. At night time, use a richer hydrating eye cream.
• Diet and Lifestyle-Include omega-3 fatty acid rich foods such as fish, flaxseed and walnut to keep your skin healthy. Avoid excessive alcohol, caffeine consumption and smoking, as they can dehydrate the skin.

Winter Skincare Tips for Routine

Morning Routine

• Start your day with gentle cleanser to remove overnight oil and night skincare products.
• Apply a hydrating toner free from alcohol to help balance skin’s pH.
• Use a hydrating serum with hyaluronic acid to lock in moisture. If you have specific skin issues like aging or pigmentation, use specific treatment according to it.
• Apply a rich and hydrating moisturizer to seal moisture. Use creamy moisturizer for normal to dry skin and lightweight gel moisturizer for oily to combination skin.
• Finish your morning routine with broad spectrum minimum SPF 30 sunscreen even on cloudy days to protect skin from sun damage.

Evening Routine

• Do double cleansing with cleansing oil/balm and gentle cleanser to remove makeup, sunscreen and dirt.
• Gently Exfoliate your skin 2-3 times a week with gentle exfoliators.
• Apply toner to soothes the skin and prep for next product absorption.
• Apply a serum as per your skin’s need.
• Gently pat an eye cream around the delicate area of eye to reduce dark circles.
•  Use a thick moisturizer to deeply nourish your skin while you sleep

Additional Winter Skincare Tips-

• Winter can make your skin more sensitive so do not forgot to perform patch test to avoid irritation.
• Avoid products with alcohol, fragrances, sulphate and other harsh chemicals.
• Layering skincare product can provide better protection to your skin. Start with light product finish withy heavier one.
• Use hand cream after every hand wash and also use foot cream to avoid foot cracks.