Fighting Seasons with Applied Beauty

How keep ahead of seasonal changes and winter skin

Suffering from winter skin withdrawals and a little seasonal sensitivity? Take a look at these dermatologist approved tips, tricks and steps to help soothe your skin back to its summer glow.
Don’t go all out on your routine

Jumping in head first and using lots of new products in the hope that you can rid the winter look has the potential to send the skin into panic mode and disrupt its protective barrier, this can even lead to inflammation or even dermatitis. Top tip, gradually introduce one product at a time, go slow and even treat yourself to a midweek face mask to help nourish the face is a good way to kick things off. Face pads can be super useful for helping remove or even apply skincare products try ensuring you have a really soft face pad for the job Thicker isn’t better

Plying skin with heavy moisturisers isn’t always the healthiest option and the key to bringing healthy hydration. Mosisturisers contain quite few different ingredients in their makeup so it’s important for you to try to find and search out the one that works best on your skin. All skin is different so there’s never often a one size suits all approach. They tend to generally fall into three core categories: Humectants such as glycerin that help to soothe the skin by binding water to the skin’s surface. Emollients like natural oils generally found in plants and occlusive moisturisers that can help prevent and fight moisture loss. To help reduce seasonal skin symptoms apply a few drops of hyaluronic acid to the skin, use gritty scrubs or AHA’s.