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What does the bitter cold weather mean for your skin?
Every year you battle wind-blown cheeks and dried-out, cracking skin on your face and body. What should you do? Will applying moisturizer several times a day quench your thirsty skin? No.
Dry, chapped skin during the cold winter months is a chronic problem for some individuals and a plain nuisance for others. Applying the heaviest moisturizing creams several times a day just isn't enough.
Why? Because we need to exfoliate every 4-6 weeks! Your top layer of skin, known as your stratum corneum, is dead skin. In the winter months, your skin dehydrates faster, losing moisture due to the ever-running heaters, and bitter Kansas wind.
Slathering moisturizer on a thick layer of dead skin doesn't offer enough relief.
My recommendation for dry, dull winter skin is a microdermabrasion combined with a moisturizing masque. Microdermabrasion procedures slough off approximately 30% of your stratum corneum leaving you with fresh skin that's ready to absorb every bit of moisture you apply.
Scheduling a microdermabrasion is the best way to get maximum value from your moisturizer. |
