10 Winter Skin Care Tips for Indian Women

Winter is here and with it the joys of snow and family time. To protect ourselves from cold weather we wear warm clothes. But what do you do for your skin in cold temperatures?

Worry not, in this article I will tell you Winter Skin Care Routine for Indian Women, how you can protect your skin and stay beautiful this winter.

In This Article

• Take stock of the condition of your skin
• Avoid too hot water
• Do not stay long in your bath
• Change your Balm, oil, or moisturizer in winter?
• Make a nourishing mask every week
• Hydrate yourself
• Using hand cream
• Unlimited hot drinks to hydrate your body
• Apply Sunscreen SPF 50
• Hydrate your arms more in winter

Take stock of the condition of your skin

The skin produces less sebum in winter, and a simple test is enough to verify this. In the evening, cleanse your face without applying cream afterward. 

After an hour, apply absorbent paper to see if the skin has produced sebum. If so, it is because it is correctly rebuilding its barrier and does not need additional care. 

Otherwise, you have to feed her more than usual. The other signs that indicate a lack of nutrition: redness, tightness, discomfort, even visible scaling, and sores. 

If you suffer from atopic dermatitis, you are even more vulnerable: the cold exacerbates this disorder.

Avoid too hot water

Taking too hot a bath or shower dries out the skin in addition to facilitating hair breakage. 

Next time think twice before taking the shower with too hot water. You can go for lukewarm water. You can see dry skin after the bath.

Do not stay long in your bath

The fact of being immersed for a long time in a hot bath weakens the barrier function of the skin. Prefer quick and lukewarm showers. And prefer shower products or soap-free cleansing gels, recommended for dry skin.

Change your Balm, oil, or moisturizer in winter?

It is important to change your Change your Balm, oil, or moisturizer in winter? First you need to know about your skin type like oily, dry, hard and sensitive.

Without changing everything: if you have normal skin and you use a cream for normal skin, do not switch directly to an ultra nutrient balm or oil.

Stick to cream for normal to dry skin. Only take the level up a notch. For information, the richest treatments are often called “rich cream”, “balm”, even “butter” when it is a body product.

Recommended to read: 8 Ways to Include Coconut Oil in Daily Beauty Care

Make a nourishing mask every week

Apply a mask once a week or even twice if the skin is really dry. The principle of the mask: saturate the skin with moisturizing, nourishing, and protective active ingredients. 

For a nourishing mask, the break time is given as an indication, but you can keep it longer on the skin - or even overnight - unless you have a tingling-type reaction, in which case you should rinse off.

Hydrate yourself

Drink enough water about at least eight glasses of water per day. You can say it is the cheapest beauty tip.

Hydrating from the inside will also affect the outside of your body. So drink a sufficient amount of water.

Using hand cream

The hands are the first exposed to the cold, and since they are devoid of sebaceous glands, they ultimately have little natural protection. 

The hand creams are formulated to provide fat in this very specific area of the body. FYI, the textures of hand creams are often very rich, much more than facial treatments and more so than body milk.

Unlimited hot drinks to hydrate your body

Hydrate by all means in winter: the feeling of thirst is less obvious than in summer, yet the body needs just as much to be hydrated. 

So all means are good: moisturizing mist to spray before applying the cream, but also water and hot drinks at will.

Apply Sunscreen SPF 50

Sunscreen is essential but is become more important in winters because sun rays are more harmful in winter. Sunscreen gel SPF 50 protect from both UV rays and helps to stay your skin moist.

Hydrate your arms more in winter

In winter, we cannot repeat it enough: the secret to sublimated skin is hydration. So a day spent without creaming can be fatal - not only in visual terms but also in sensory terms. 

In lack of water, it tightens, gives way to drought, and quickly falls into roughness. While coconut oil or Shea butter are extremely nourishing, it is difficult to use them as-is on the skin without it appearing oily.

• So we choose a good moisturizer that will allow us to last all day or even the next day, and which incorporates all these ingredients in its formula. 
• My oily skin is reassured: this cream aimed primarily at “normal to dry skin” can also be intended for them.
• In addition to the cream, we complete our routine with a rejuvenating mask once a week to restore our skin to all its freshness in a single gesture.