Feb 4
Top 5 Skin Care Myths During Winter
Here are Audrey Kunin’s, M.D.Top 5 skin care myths for fall and winter skin.
1. Sunscreen is only needed during hot days of the summer.
Wrong! Sunscreen should be part of your daily routine all year round especially during fall and winter months. Fall and winter are the seasons in the year where the cloud cover is most common. Clouds reproduce unwanted UV rays from the sun which will damage your skin.
2. One type of moisturizer for the whole year is enough.
Once again, wrong! It depends on how harsh the season is. A mild season would best fit a lotion-based moisturizer. For strong seasons, a cream-based moisturizer will help restore moisture levels in the skin and generate a defensive barrier against the winter weather.
3. Repairing chapped lips with a lip balm.
This is another myth for caring the skin. Lip balm is good for healthy lips to avoid chapped lips, but lip balm for already chapped lips won’t do much. Lip balm for chapped lips will not moisturize the lips. A gentle lip exfoliant every night then followed by an emollient or prescription-strength hydrocortisone ointment will do cure those chapped lips. Pucker up!
4. Lotion will remedy cracked, chapped skin.
No, lotion won’t do any good for those chapped and cracked skin. A recommendable solution for cracked and chapped skin is a combination therapy which includes passive protectants (i.e. bland emollient creams) and active moisturizers. Passive protectants will create a shield for your skin from the environment. Meanwhile, moisturizers will soften and exfoliate the skin.
5. There’s no need to change my daily facial rejuvenation, whatever the season may be.
People, who undergo skin rejuvenation therapy or wrinkle treatment, would want to think twice about their regimen during cold, dry seasons. Product bases should be altered as fall and winter draw near. Lotions and serums should be set aside and replaced by creams and including a hyaluronic acid to the mix. After that, you may want to lessen the use of skin products with vitamin A. It doesn’t hurt if you apply additional moisturizer to obtain more hydration.
