If your skin is beginning to look and feel a little unloved, try to update your winter products and create the proper care routine. With a few simple swaps, your body won’t have to feel the full effects of the wintery weather this year.
The calm, cool days of winter come with many benefits. Hearty meals, fuzzy blankets, warm baths and digging out your favourite old jumpers, just to name a few. However, one major downfall of this frosty season is the havoc it can wreak on your skin. As the temperature drops and our extremities are exposed to the elements, our skin and lips can dry out and become itchy, irritated and cracked.
Just as you are making changes to your wardrobe or the meals you’re cooking in colder weather, it makes sense that your skincare products should also be switched out for seasonally appropriate products.
Your daily moisturiser
One easy but effective change is to swap your moisturiser for a thicker body cream. Although your go-to body lotion or moisturiser may do a fine job throughout the warmer seasons of the year, in winter you may need something heavier to withstand the harsher conditions. Try looking for a body butter or cream, as this will last longer than the quick fix of a liquid moisturiser.
Our recommendation: The Base Collective’s Magnesium & White Tea Body Balm
Apply it at night to avoid sticky clothes and slippery hands and as you sleep the nourishing ingredients will have time to truly sink into your skin.
Post-shower soothing
If you tend to use a lotion after showering or bathing, consider changing it a few times a week to a nourishing body oil, especially if you often shower at night, as this leaves time for the oil to absorb before dressing. Based on the kind you buy, a body oil will soothe and condition the skin as well as your nails and cuticles, heels and even hair, helping to rehydrate dry skin and remedy dryness all season long.
Our recommendation: Ms Brown’s Geranium Body Oil
Hand hydration
Another vital moisturiser to keep on hand – literally – in colder months is a nourishing hand cream. As hands are commonly exposed to the dry, cold weather, hot water and harsh soaps, they often show the first signs of dryness.
Our recommendation: Al.ive Body’s Fig Apricot & Sage Hand & Body Lotion
For everyday protection, it’s best to carry a cream with you and apply it throughout the day. Even consider using a special treatment such as moisturising gloves or a thick hand cream at bedtime, in order for your mitts to absorb all of the nourishing ingredients while you sleep.
Our recommendation: Edible Beauty’s Precious Sea Hand Saviour
Luscious lips
Something else to keep on you every day is a nourishing lip balm. Keep your favourite balm with you and apply over the course of your day, as well as at night before bed. Although time-consuming, searching for a lip balm that deeply nourishes instead of temporarily masking dryness is well worth the effort.
Our recommendation: Hurraw!’s Sun Lip Balm
You’ll be thanking yourself when spring finally rolls around and your skin and lips have been kept in tip-top shape, withstanding the winter chill for another year.
You can shop all our favourite body care products on our sister store VeganBeauty here.
