Your Guide toWinter Skincare

As the season changes so should your skincare routine. The most common complaints we get from patients this time of year is their skin looks and feels dry, flaky, and dull. In winter, cold weather, low humidity, and turning our heat on indoors depletes skin of its natural oils. This causes our skin’s natural barrier function and moisturizing factors to decrease, in turn leaving us with dry flakey skin. Suddenly our skincare routine which we thought we had down in the warmer months isn’t quite cutting it anymore. On top of that, if our skin dries out too much our body fights to over produce oil and we end up breaking out OR we over moisturize to compensate and break out anyway! So, what can we do?

There are a few things we can do to fight winter skin.

1. Increase your hydration. Seems easy enough but many of us don’t meet the required daily water intake. You should be drinking half your body weight in ounces. So, if you are 130lbs you should be drinking 65oz of water daily!
2. Get those humidifiers out. Having humidifiers to add extra moisture to your room and living spaces goes a long way. You don’t need anything expensive.
3. Switch to a more hydrating or soothing cleanser that won’t strip your skin. We recommend illuma Skin Rejuvenating Cleanser – $42
4. Ditch the exfoliating scrubs for retinol. Instead of the harsh manual exfoliation of scrubs, retinol or retinoids increase your cell turnover, increase collagen production and strengthen and protect the skin from environmental damage as well as prevent breakouts. We recommend: illuma Skin Retinol RX Lotion – $92 or SkinBetter Science AlphaRet Overnight Cream – $140
5. Incorporate a Hyaluronic Acid serum or cream. Hyaluronic acid helps to increase the moisture content in your skin to plump and hydrate. We recommend: illuma Skin Hydrating Serum – $74 or illuma Skin Intense Hyaluronic Cream – $74
6. Remember to continue your SPF! Our best seller is our illuma Skin Daily Defense Tinted SPF – $42
7. Lastly, don’t forget the power of treatments! Winter is the perfect time to come in for HydraFacials and Laser treatments to keep your skin healthy and glowing all year long. If you like the idea of injectables-FDA approved Skinvive, an injectable hydrator lasting 6 months is an option for you as well.

We offer complimentary Skincare Consultations if you need any back up fighting winter skin. All of the products listed above can be purchased on our online store. Free shipping over $50