Imagine your skin cells as a network of strands that work much in the same way as the basic structure of a house. What would be the main frame of your home is the equivalent of the role of collagen and elastin in your skins matrix. And, as your house needs windows, and floors and ceilings, your skin also needs fillers or cushioning to support the whole structure. Within this cushioning, your skins cells contain natural chemicals which make up your Natural Moisturizing Factor, or NMF. Water binds itself to your NMF, which then in turn hydrates your skin.
Below are a few steps to help out and either compliment or overtaking all what you have been doing to maintain a beautiful skin despite the weather.
Water: the skin is made up of water so drinking 8 cups of warm water a day would help. “If you have trouble drinking plain water, mix things up a bit by adding freshly squeezed lemon or lime juice, or make your own calorie-free iced tea, by steeping herbal tea bags in a pitcher of cold water. Try green tea. Drinking alcohol, coffee and smoking can put oxidative stress on the skin, which in turn makes the skin prone to dehydration and wrinkles.
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Eat fruits that have water in them: fruits like cucumbers, oranges, pineapples, watermelons, tomatoes etc. Are very healthy for your skin because the skin like us, needs food.
Your hands and lips get most of the dryness: you’ll agree with me because your lips are either dry and cracked or just try, you spend most times chewing on your lips and your hands too are getting wrinkled and the skin there is looking(if not already) stretched. Lip balm and hand lotion should do the trick.
Mind your beauty care products: use only water-based products to boost as part of your morning routine while keeping your oil-based products for the nights when your skin is at its most regenerative and can soak up the benefits. Choose a shower cream rather than a gel as creamy-textured washes contain oil and have more nourishing properties. Clean up every morning and night (especially make up).
Exfoliate: scrub twice a week using body scrubs because over “scrubbing” can dry up the skin even more.
Mind your environment: Dr Vandana Rajesh Kadam, Dermatologist at Kaya Skin Clinic, agrees with me by saying that environmental conditions – over-exposure to the sun, cold and wind – are responsible for dehydrated skin as well as taking long hot showers or baths which can contribute to dehydrated skin as it draws moisture out of the skin. So mind your environment and your dressing. Angela Turovskaya, spa manager at Nivea Haus says that your air conditioner is being on at night is also the problem why your skins dry. You’ll notice it first around your eyes which will show fine lines. Since your skin regenerates itself at night when you sleep in a heavily air conditioned room, any moisture in the air is being instantly sucked up. Combine that with lack of sleep (not getting your eight hours a night), and your skin will soon start to show the early signs of ageing combined with puffy eyes. I suggest you try sleeping with a humidifier if your air condition must remain on at night or you can keep a filled bowl of water in your bedroom overnight as the air conditioner will dry up the water from the bowl and not your skin.
Exercise: running, jogging and skipping is really go for you this season.
Lastly meditate. Meditate to radiate.
Signs that your skin is dehydrated include a rough, tight feeling with little elasticity and incessant itching. You may also experience flaking or peeling, redness, coarse thick ashy skin, and in extreme cases, you may get cracks which can bleed on occasion. So look for your “name” among the above signs and get to work. People won’t even believe that you’re experiencing the same harmattan that they are.
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