We’ve turned the air conditioner off in our home and I am enjoying this time where neither the air nor the heat is needed. Once the temps drop and the heat comes on my dry skin goes into overdrive and to say my skin has it rough is an understatement.
My skin gets so dry in the winter especially on my thighs. I will literally scratch my thighs until little red rashes appear. Unbelievably the Dr. seems to think I just have extremely dry skin and somehow just missed the chart rating for eczema so I often turn to lotions and creams that I can buy at the store to get some relief.
There are a number of things that I can do at home to lessen my flare ups. I’ve used these tips in the past but haven’t been consistent. This year, now that I am being more intentional about things I plan to implement and keep my new regimen of skincare to ensure my skin is well moisturized lessening my chances of discomfort this upcoming winter.
Here are a few tips to make sure that you keep your skin well moisturized this fall and winter season.
1. Bathe in lukewarm, not hot water. This one will be hard for me, the hotter my water is the better.
2. Use a soap free cleanser like Curél Itch Defense. Soap dries your skin out, this cleanser is soap and fragrance free. Contains Jojoba and Olive oils and with continued use will relieve itchy skin in just 4 days.
3. Consistently using the Curél Itch Defense lotion. This lotion with its advanced ceramide therapy promises to not just relieve the symptoms of dry skin but to over time prevent the symptoms from occurring. Sign me up!
The latter part of the year is definitely my favorite and hopefully I can get my skin under control with the Curél Itch Defense line of products.
I have received Curél products to facilitate this post. All thoughts and opinions are solely my own.
7 Comments
Kita
October 20, 2015 at 12:28 pmI am not a fan of that hot hot water. I need medium but my skin is so bad during the winter that I need every bottle of this asap
Mimi
October 21, 2015 at 10:09 amNo ma’am, the hotter the absolute better then I get out all itchy so that is one step I really need to pay attention to.
K. Elizabeth (YUMMommy)
October 20, 2015 at 1:23 pmWill definitely have to get some of this Curel Itch Defense lotion because I refuse to battle with my severe dry skin this year. Not sure why I don’t already buy it considering we’ve used Curel lotions a million times at my mom’s house when visiting. It’s already cold enough down here that we’ve had to use the heat this week and I already have a small rash from scratching. Off to Target I go.
Mimi
October 21, 2015 at 10:10 amRight! Curel has been around forever. Mom’s know!
Shann Eva
October 20, 2015 at 3:10 pmMy skin also gets super dry in the winter. Especially my hands, so this will be a necessity. It’s also very hard for me to just have a warm shower….I like it really hot.
Mimi
October 21, 2015 at 10:17 amYes! My hands are the absolute worst and I am always losing gloves so that doesn’t help either.
Tiffany
October 21, 2015 at 8:51 pmMy Hubby is a total hot hot water person so I may need to grab a few bottles of this to help him out because I don’t see him going lukewarm anytime soon…lol