In the Autumn and Winter skin is overly dry, dull, cracked and prickly. Its condition worsens due to low temperature, air conditioning or wearing thick clothes. Luckily, you can do something about it. You just need to hydrate it on a regular basis. Read below how you can do it correctly.

Why should you moisturise your skin?

By using moisturising and oily cosmetics, you prevent dryness and damage to the skin. You protect it against freezing air, minus temperatures and other external factors. You also protect it against peeling, irritation and dehydration. Moisturising cosmetics create a protective barrier which protects against water loss from the inner skin layers. Remember that elbows, heels and knees require hydration the most. Skin in these areas becomes dry much faster.

How should you take care of your skin?

A shower does not need to take long. Warm water and long shower or bath contribute to skin dehydration. It becomes rough, peels and is itchy. Besides, during evening treatments, the natural hydro-lipid barrier of the skin is damaged. Collagen fibres weaken, skin loses firmness, stretch marks and wrinkles appear.

Shower gel should also moisturise. Cosmetic you use under the shower have to contain moisturising and protective ingredients. Choose products with glycerin, collagen, hyaluronic acid, vegetable oils, vitamins, proteins and minerals. Quite a soap and other dryness causing cosmetics.

Be gentle to your skin. After every bath or shower leave body slightly wet; do not dry it entirely. That will make easier to apply some of the cosmetics. Moreover, vigorous rubbing with a towel can damage, dry and irritate skin. To dry body use soft, cotton towels. Then you can dry up the skin in a gentle manner.

What cosmetics should you use?

The choice is immense. Drugstores are full of products with moisturising and protective properties. These can be oils, butter, balms, gel or serum. All the cosmetics have different texture: to begin with light and fast absorbing, through semi-liquid to thick. When buying moisturising cosmetic pay attention to the ingredients contained. Dry skin will like the most: petroleum jelly, glycerin, oils, coenzyme Q10, Algae, Shea butter, vitamins and panthenol.