Weather and climate conditions affect the skin more than you might imagine, and many people suffer from dry skin during the winter months.
Dry air, wind and cold weather contribute to the body losing a lot of moisture, causing dry, flaky, rough or dull skin.
Here are 9 tips on how to replenish your skin with moisture for radiant, healthy, glowing skin in any season.
1. Regular scrub
When skin is dry, it is more difficult to remove dead skin cells, which can cause a dull appearance and slightly uneven skin tone.
A face scrub that removes dead skin cells and helps stimulate skin renewal will give you an instant glow.
Nordic Exfoliating Face Scrub is a gentle face scrub with bamboo extract that revitalizes mature skin. It gently and effectively removes dead skin cells and smooths the skin’s surface while adding moisturizing and protective ingredients such as shea butter and cranberry seed oil.
How often should you exfoliate? It depends on skin type, weather and temperature conditions, and other factors.
The advantage of Nordic Exfoliating Face Scrub is that it is so gentle that it can be used every day, even on sensitive skin. The grains of the scrub are large enough to smooth the surface of the skin, but small enough not to cause irritation.
2. Cleanse with care
Clean skin is healthy skin, but the key is to use a cleanser that does not leave your skin drier than before.
Nordic Makeup Removal Balm can be used as a pure makeup remover, but also as a facial cleanser if you are not wearing makeup. It effectively removes both dirt and makeup, including waterproof mascara, without drying out the skin.
It is an oil-based cleanser that melts into the skin, leaving it clean and fresh. With soothing and moisturizing ingredients from oats and vitamin C-rich sea buckthorn berries, the skin’s natural lipids are preserved.
3. Moisturize immediately after showering
After showering or bathing, while the skin is still moisturized, apply a lotion or body cream that contains an occlusive ingredient, that is, an ingredient that helps form a barrier on the skin to retain moisture, such as Nordic Restoring Body Treatment.
This body cream is formulated with naturally occlusive ingredients that help retain moisture in the skin.
It also contains vitamin C-rich cloudberry extract, as well as antioxidants and essential fatty acids from blueberry seed oil. In addition, it contains 3 percent niacinamide, which improves skin texture. Nordic Restoring Body Treatment is an incredibly moisturizing and nourishing body cream suitable for all skin types, especially dry skin.
4. Protect the skin from the sun
Sun damage can dry out the skin and cause age spots. For this reason, it is necessary to apply sunscreen every day, regardless of the calendar. When the sun is strongest in summer and the skin is most exposed, it is necessary to wear protective clothing or headgear that prevents UV rays from damaging the skin.
5. Use moisturizer in the evening
Want radiant skin when you wake up? Use a nourishing moisturizer just before bed and you will see a difference. Your body and skin cells repair themselves during sleep, so make sure your skin gets a cocktail of nutrients and moisturizers before bedtime.
There are two steps in your skin care routine that are especially important when your skin is dry.
After cleansing, start with a facial serum rich in vitamins, antioxidants, and hydration, such as Nordic Firming Serum. This serum contains both nutrient-rich birch sap and mineral-rich red algae extract to nourish and protect the skin barrier.
Once the serum has been absorbed into the skin, a nourishing moisturizer is applied. Nordic Recovery Cream is a rich, nourishing face cream packed with antioxidants and moisturizing ingredients from Nordic blueberries and sea buckthorn berries. The face cream is formulated with ingredients that have an occlusive effect, encapsulating both moisturizing and nourishing…
6. Internal and external hydration
A somewhat different way to moisturize and soften the skin is to use a humidifier. Especially if the air is particularly dry (such as in winter when using a heat pump). A humidifier increases water vapor in the air, which is absorbed by the skin.
There are small and large models, including small humidifiers suitable for nighttime use in the bedroom. It is good for both the skin and the respiratory tract.
That said, internal hydration is perhaps most important. So remember to take in enough water! This applies to both what you drink and what you take in with food.
The amount needed depends on activity level, temperature and health status, but in general it is recommended that women consume about 2 liters of water per day.
7. Don’t forget your hands and neck
The face is particularly vulnerable to dry air, sun, pollution and temperature changes, but so are the hands and neck.
We are often good at taking care of the face, but we forget about the hands and neck. The skin in these areas is in constant motion and therefore more prone to lines and wrinkles.
Take a few extra minutes to moisturize these areas immediately after applying your face cream.
Nordic Hand Treatment is a nourishing and softening hand cream, rich in ingredients that moisturize the skin of the hands. A blend of oat and cranberry oil leaves the skin soft and supple, while ingredients such as ceramides, shea butter, squalane and hyaluronic acid moisturize the skin.
There are also products dedicated to neck and chest skin. Nordic Neck & Chest Refining Cream offers gentle exfoliation while providing a highly moisturizing and firming effect on dry, sagging skin. A combination of oat and cranberry oil soothes, smoothes and helps reduce dryness lines. A highly nourishing cream for neck and chest skin.
8. Choose a high quality moisturizer
The moisturizer you use every day can have a great impact on the health of your skin, not only now but also in the long term.
That is why it is good to choose skin care products that contain as many natural, nutrient-rich ingredients as possible and as few chemicals as possible that can cause skin irritation and hormone disruption. No microplastics, mineral oils or silicones.
Vessi products are made with love for nature, using pure extracts and oils from wild plants and berries from the Nordic wilderness. These are ingredients that are good for the skin, but are also effective and provide long-lasting hydration and softness.
9. Getting enough sleep
Lack of sleep can reduce blood circulation to the skin, causing dryness and dullness. As we age, sleep problems increase, often associated with menopause.
Do what you can to increase the duration and quality of sleep and take a nap when you can.
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