Treating Dry Skin

Phyllis Howard just came back from skiarea and was complaining to her friend Emily Reynolds about the terrible problems she had with dry and cracked skin on the slopes. Emily told her that she had the exact same skin problem at Bellevaux, France. An very experienced skiier laid out the three things to keep your skin in good condition in the cold. She will use that on her trip to Schladming, Austria coming up next month.

Winter is the worst time for our skin. A good many people suffer with itchy, dry, flaking, irritated and painful skin. Running out to the local boutique to find the most well known healing lotions and creams to help soothe the pain and heal the cracks for moments of relief. The bad news is most folks are overlooking the vital and simple methods to not only get a major improvement with your dry, chapped and cracked skin, but also help prevent it.

We as humans are made up mostly of water. For some reason, in cold weather, we don't think of the need to make sure that we are drinking enough water. During the summer, when we are losing fluids through sweat and doing yard work, we know we need to drink water to help replace the water as we lost. In the winter the cold air does much the same to our body. It withdraws that water right out of us. This then cracks and chaps our skin, leaving it flaking and itchy. Making sure that you are still drinking 8 to 10 glasses of water a day will improve the chances in the battle over dry and cracked skin. Try it for the next two weeks and you will begin to see a noticeable improvement in your skin in a matter of days.

Staying with the requirement of moisture, a good moisturizing lotion is also a good idea. Try to get one that fits for your skin type so that you aren't going to end up with oily uncomfortable skin. I recommend a cream as opposed to a lotion in the cold, because a cream is thicker and more protective of the skin. You should also spend a moment or so and read the label. The cream or lotion that you use in the summer probably won't be appropriate in the winter. Avoid one with alcohol in the first few ingredients, as alcohol will actually dry out your skin, just what you dont' want.

Make sure to dress the right way in cold weather. Don't just write this one off, think this one over. The more exposed areas of skin that you have increases the opportunity that the cold air has to remove the moisture from your skin. Layer your clothes and let that next to the skin layer be clothes that are made out of cotton. Cotton will let you skin breathe, will keep you warm and won-t irritate your skin.

If you follow these three simple methods, you will not only start getting relief from that really dry skin, but you will help prevent your skin from becoming dry. Drinking plenty of fluids, the right moisturizing cream and appropriate clothing and you will have healthy, well hydrated, comfortable skin covering you.

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