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Winter Beauty: Care Tips for Beautiful Skin in the Cold Season
Winter-Beauty:
Care tips for beautiful skin in the cold season
Outside, a frosty wind blows and cuts on the skin, inside, dry heating air also dries out the last moisture reserves of the skin, and the lack of daylight affects not only our mood but also our skin. Winter is by far the most challenging season for the skin. However, if you know how to nourish your skin-supportively, which active ingredients can care for your skin in winter, and take into account the biorhythm of your skin, winter cannot shock your skin. In this article, you will find tips for the optimal care of your skin in winter.
Why is the skin more needy in winter?
As soon as your skin is exposed to cold, the blood vessels in the skin constrict to retain as much heat as possible in the body. However, without open blood vessels, your skin also receives fewer nutrients and oxygen, which is why its entire metabolism runs on low power and the complexion appears paler and grayer. Your skin is in a kind of hibernation in the cold.
In addition, your skin lacks the protective lipids, i.e., fats, in cold weather, which act as a defensive shield between the skin and harmful environmental influences and help retain moisture in the skin. The colder it gets, the less sebum is produced, and the skin, deprived of its defenders, becomes vulnerable, dries out faster, and can become cracked. Therefore, it is especially important in winter to use care products that activate the skin's self-healing powers and help it protect itself without causing strain. A healthy skin cycle and an intact, strengthened skin barrier are the key to success both in summer and winter.
This is how your skin gets winter-ready
There are three areas where you should take action for your skin in winter:
- The right skincare in winter is essential.
- Provide your skin internally with the necessary equipment as well.
- Adjust your lifestyle to minimize stress on the skin.
Optimal skin care in winter
To best care for your skin in winter and avoid additional stress, you should first give up some possibly beloved cosmetic products. The no-no care products in winter include all those that contain perfumes and dyes as well as those made from non-evidence-based active ingredients. Commercially available skin creams are also often mixed with mineral oils, which can deplete the skin with prolonged use.
Instead, for the sake of your skin, rely on rich creams made from scientifically proven active ingredients like Retinol or even better, highly concentrated TECMi!®-Retinol, which can be encapsulated and delivered into a deeper skin layer. Other desirable ingredients in winter skincare products, which ideally will soon become part of your daily care routine, include oligo-hyaluronic acid, lactate, panthenol, and vitamins. But be careful: more is not always better. Always start with a cherry pit-sized amount and rather apply a second time, as too much at once can irritate the skin and lead to pimples.
Winter mornings without skin worries
In the morning, the skin needs a gentle cleansing that does not affect the skin's pH balance. Ideal are washing and cleansing gels that also provide moisture. For example, CLEAN, the gentle cleansing gel from Doctor Mi! medical skincare, which contains moisture-retaining Vitamin B5 and Panthenol, is perfectly suited. For men's skin, on the other hand, CLEAN MEN is perfectly suitable, which can also be used as a high-quality and nourishing alternative to shaving foam.
After cleansing, follow with a day cream and ideally a sunscreen with SPF 50+, as otherwise your skin can quickly be damaged by strong winter sun UV radiation. Especially with light-reflecting snow and at higher altitudes, you can even get a winter sunburn.
In addition, your skin needs a facial care with antioxidants, retinol, and oligo-hyaluronic acid in the morning to support its natural barrier function and to give it the necessary glow. The ideal combination is with a high-quality serum: with an immediate lifting and smoothing effect for a maximally strengthened complexion.
For soft winter lips
Don't forget your lips when caring for your face in winter. As mucous membranes, they have no natural protective barrier and are defenseless against UV rays and other harmful influences. Moisture-retaining lip balms protect them in winter.
Come to rest in the evening
After an evening shower, you should use a rich body lotion and massage it in gently to stimulate circulation. The face benefits from an evening mask once or twice a week. Problematic body areas such as feet, elbows, shins, and knees, which have few sebaceous glands and therefore tend to dryness or even cracks, should receive extra attention in the form of consistent care.
At night in auto repair mode
Even in winter, the skin follows its schedule and is most receptive at night, while cell renewal is in full swing. A good night care product contains all the necessary active ingredients to support the skin in its nightly regeneration. These include oligo-hyaluronic acid, vitamins, and highly concentrated TECMi! retinol: this can certainly be present in higher concentrations since you are not exposing your skin to UV rays. The optimal companions for your skin, which you should ideally apply alternately at night, are:
- NIGHT: With 6% TECMi!® retinol complex, the night care from Doctor Mi! medical skincare offers your skin a high concentration that vigorously boosts your skin's metabolism at night.
- RED: Even more effective is the Doctor Mi! Skin Booster RED with a full 8% TECMi!® retinol complex. Due to its particularly high efficacy, you should start with 2 applications per week and gradually increase to up to 5 applications per week to ideally nourish your skin.
Hand care in winter
Especially in this winter, when you wash and disinfect your hands dozens of times a day, you should not neglect your hand care. However, commercial soaps and disinfectants also strip the already weather-beaten skin of the hands of the last bit of moisture and suppleness due to the low temperatures. Wearing cotton gloves at night, in which the skin can absorb all the necessary active ingredients overnight, is a tip for people with extremely dry skin and cracked cuticles. In the Corona winter, however, it is a good recommendation for everyone. Since you never know which disinfectant is in the dispenser, it is best to always have your own high-quality HAND-SANITIZER and hand cream with you. Tip: With a rich hand and body lotion, you solve two problems with one tube, as you can also care for particularly dry areas such as elbows, shins, and ankles in between.
Full winter program for your skin
To achieve the maximum protection and anti-aging effect, it is always advisable to choose the care products from a series. This way, you can be sure that day and night care, as well as all other care products, are perfectly coordinated and complement each other in their composition.
Winter nutrition for healthy skin
Every season has its foods that the body and skin long for. While on summer days you can easily have a refined salad with gazpacho every day, your body also needs something warm and hearty as an energy source in winter, as well as hot drinks. However, with all the winter indulgence, you should, as in other seasons, make sure to consume the right foods to nourish your skin from the inside with nutrients.
Your skin urgently needs amino acids, antioxidants, as well as B vitamins, vitamin C, D, and E in winter to strengthen the protective barrier that defends it against free radicals and other harmful environmental influences. Additionally, especially in cold weather, you need omega-3 fatty acids, which help retain moisture in the skin. Since connective tissue tends to form cellulite more easily in winter, the minerals manganese, silicon, and iron are also important. As in every season, you should keep your sugar intake low in winter to prevent harmful glycation, which accelerates the aging process and makes the skin vulnerable. Fortunately, low-sugar and nutrient-rich hot soups, stews, and dishes with kale, salmon, roasted poultry, and many other skin-friendly foods are not only super healthy but also delicious. To drink enough fluids in winter, you should drink as much green tea or herbal tea as possible and also cover part of your fluid needs with tomato soups and similar dishes.
Healthy lifestyle in winter
In addition to external skin care with creams, internal care through healthy nutrition is also important. Furthermore, you can also promote more beautiful and healthier skin with your lifestyle and better conditions:
- Don't burden your skin additionally with nicotine, alcohol, and sugar.
- Try to avoid stress by organizing your appointments better and allowing yourself more rest.
- Boost circulation through exercise and gentle pinching massages to give it more glow and prevent cellulite.
- Do not shower too hot and use pH-neutral (pH 5.5), moisture-retaining, and re-fatting shower gels. If you want to take a full bath, then: not too hot, no longer than 15 minutes, and also with pH-neutral bath additives.
- Protect your skin from irritation caused by scratchy turtleneck sweaters and scarves by wearing a skin-friendly soft cotton layer underneath.
- Enough sleep is also the prerequisite in winter for your skin to regenerate well.
