Try Winter-Proofing Your Skin This Year

Protect your skin from the winter. Be cautious when you go for vampire facials. These treatments could have disastrous effects on the skin. 

Try Winter-Proofing Your Skin This Year

How Does Winter Affect The Skin? 

Your skin may get flaky and itchy when the seasons change. It may also result in cracking and bleeding. Know all about it when winter and dry skin are not getting along. 

Deanne Robinson, MD, co-founder of Modern Dermatology of Connecticut, explains that winter comes with cold temperatures and less humidity. Resulting in dry and sometimes itchy skin, these changes lead to water loss. Making it worse is indoor heat in the form of forced hot air or radiant heat-producing very dry, hot air. 

To soothe winter dry skin Robinson suggests some tips and tricks. 

Is It There Any Truth When Saying That Hot Showers Make Dry Skin Worse?

The answer is of course yes. Leading to dryness are hot and long showers especially in winter stripping the skin of natural oils. By moisturising immediately after, you can help prevent winter dry skin by taking shorter, which is less than 10 minutes, and cooler, which is 105 degrees F, showers. 

Which Products Are Best For Winter?

Ideally, one with ceramides, try a heavier cream or ointment-based emollient. Helping rebuild and protect the skin barrier are ceramides in the skin’s natural fatty acids. Skip the soap too. By stripping the natural oils, traditional bar soap dries skin out. Opt for a non-soap cleanser which is much gentler instead. 

Why Are My Hands Extra Dry?

Triggering hand eczema is hand-washing and alcohol-based sanitizers. Moisturise, moisturise, and moisturise to treat it. Which comes as fragrance- and colour-free, try a non-soap cleanser. Apply a moisturiser after every hand wash. Which coats your skin to create a glove-like barrier protecting against further damage, try one with dimethicone. Which can help a whole lot, at night, apply a thick emollient and then put on cotton gloves. 

How Does Winter Affect Psoriasis?

That may get better from natural UV radiation or sunlight is the skin condition called psoriasis. As you get less exposure to the sun, winter may flare your psoriasis. Improving it is by controlled exposure to the sun in winter. 

4 Tips

From the American Academy of Dermatology, try these bonus tips. See a dermatologist if your skin needs more relief. 

The right lip balm should be picked. A soothing lip balm can be used. Try a different one if your balm doesn’t feel good or makes your lips tingle. 

Dry air is banned. To add moisture to the air, plug in a humidifier.

Cosying up to a fireplace or heat source should be skipped. 

It is necessary to wear gloves. From the elements protect your hands.

When you are outdoors, washing dishes, or touching chemicals or grease, wear gloves. 

Irritating clothing should be ditched. Labelled hypoallergenic use gentle laundry detergent. Under wool or other rough materials, wear cotton or silk. 

Beware Of 'Vampire Facial' Spa As Clients Need To Be Tested For HIV

Being warned that they may have been exposed to HIV, hepatitis B, and Hepatitis C through human blood used in the controversial procedure were customers of an Albuquerque spa who received a vampire facial. 

A patient’s blood is drawn and then injected back into the face using micro-needles in a vampire facial popularised by Kim Kardashian and other celebrities. 

It was reported by CBS News that an inspection was on by the New Mexico Department of Health at the VIP Spa in Albuquerque detected practices that might then spread HIV or hepatitis B. 

Who Needs To Be Cautious? 

Epidemiologist Dr. Michael Landen told CBS states that the inspection was undertaken as a client of the VIP Spa was found to have developed an infection resulting from a procedure likely to be performed at the spa. 

Especially if the procedure happened recently his agency urges that anyone who received a vampire facial at the spa gets tested as soon as possible. They added testing would be free and confidential. 

Last But Not Least Here Are Some More Info On Vampire Facials. 

It is always to be considered that they use microneedles, and so you should be careful that it is new and sterilised and not used before on someone else. So, what should you know more other than those highlighted? Always love your natural face and age gracefully to be away from any infections or disasters. Make sure you can rely on the dermatologist with board certifications. Do not just follow the hype, but be sure you can trust them with safety and cleanliness.                         

Even though vampire facials help, stay tuned for more recent treatments developed to help your skin look young. So here we go promising to come back with more info and details on treatments to reduce aging. 

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