The changing of the seasons can play havoc on your skin. Your skin can start to feel tight and itchy this is mainly due to a protein which helps protect our skin called filaggrin dropping between summer and winter. This along with cold temperatures, harsh winds and central heating lead to dehydration, roughness and flakiness on the skins surface.
A couple of simple changes to your skincare and diet can help combat the effects of winter on your skin and boosts its hydration.
Increasing healthy fats found in nuts, seeds, oily fish and avocados help to protect essential fatty acids in the skin.
Keep Moisturising and introduce a serum packed with hyaluronic acid, this clever ingredient can hold 1000 times it own wait in water, keeping it locked into your skin.
Its tempting to pick up the harsh facial scrubs to remove dull flaky skin but this can do more harm than good by damaging the skins surface and causing more moisture loss. A gentle lotion exfoliater with an AHA or BHA is gentler way to encourage cell renewal and apperance without stripping the skin causing irritation.
Another simple way and effective way to improve dry skin is to adjust your cleansing routine. Its easy to damage the delicate surface of the skin with soaps or cleansers with harsh chemicals in. Switching to oil based cleanser which is softer on the skin surface help protect its natural lipids.
Product recommendations
Advance Nutrition Programme, Skin Omegas are packed with with nourishing fatty acids to protect skins lipid layers and lock in moisture.
Environ Intense Hydration Serum – Contains hyaluronic acid which holds 1000 times its own weight in water with out feeling heavy or oily on the skins surface.
Treatment Recommendations
Environ 60 minute Moisture Boost facial, delivers hyaluronic acid and vitamins into the deepest layers of the skin. Reduces fine lines and gives you back your glow.