When the leaves change and the air becomes chilly, one thing often suffers: your skin. You’ve almost made it through the slick, greasy days of summer, but now your skin has become dry, scaly, and can be delicate and sensitive. But there is no need for panic as one of my professors once famously said ‘Fall is a very sly season and it does not have to be an excuse for your skin to go bad.’ That glow can be maintained into the season if proper dry skin treatment!
How Facial Aging Begins: Why Fall Can Be a Skin Saboteur
Everyone looks forward to fall because it comes after the hot summer season however it’s bad news for your skin. Here’s why:
- Temperature Swings: Sometimes it is cold and the following moment it raises the temperature, and your skin cannot provide adequate defense.
- Dry Air: Warm temperatures frequently bring high humidity levels. Dry air drains moisture from your skin, leaving it rough and cracked.
- Heating Indoors: The moment you get indoors and increase the temperature on your heater it is not good for your skin. Artificial heat removes even more moisture, causing that awful feeling of tightness, and flakiness.
How to Fight Fall’s Skin Sabotage
Let’s look at a skincare guide on how to deal with falls and keep your skin healthy without a wrinkle in sight.
1. Some believe that one should change their facial cleanser to a hydrating one if the skin on the face is dry.
Your short summer cleaner is not going to do the job for you any longer. That changes, however, as the weather begins to turn cooler and something a little creamier is required. Seek moisturizing ingredients such as glycerin or ceramides to make sure that you do not dry your skin as you wash it.
Pro Tip: Don’t use foaming cleansers in the fall, as they’re too rough and tend to aggravate skin to make it more dry.
2. Moisturizing Should Be Done As Soon As You Are Through With Washing Your Skin
Moisturization is best done at the right time. The best time to apply your moisturizer is immediately after your shower or after washing your face, while the skin is still wet. This is good as it ensures that water in the skin is locked in thus requiring a longer time of time to be replenished.
Look for ingredients like:
Hyaluronic acid: An anti-aging cream that will make your skin porous to water.
Squalane: Very similar to your sebum, and makes it very moisturizing without being as oily as a face oil.
Shea butter: Ideal to use as a moisturizer for dry skin areas of the body.
3. Upgrade Your Moisturizer
Your summer gel moisturizer may have been ideal for use during the hot summer season, but you need something more moisturizing during the fall. Prefer the products that are richer in formation as they can help avoid the loss of moisture by the skin.
4. Don’t Ditch the Sunscreen
It may be chilly in the fall, and the sun may not seem as strong but do not forget that the rays are still harsh. Continue wearing sunscreen throughout the year as it helps prevent skin aging, darkening, and hyper-tanning. Your ultimate protection should still be a broad-spectrum SPF 30 even when the days are cloudy.
5. Exfoliate – But Gently
When you feel a layer of skin begins to loosen, the instinct is to wipe it all off. But, doing so further harms the skin’s barrier and makes it even drier. While finding ways to exfoliate sensitive skin, avoid scrubbing your skin much, ideally using mild to moderate scrub at most twice a week, and prefer products with AHAs such as lactic acid that are not abrasive.
6. Invest in a Humidifier
They also force circulation to the flow of air but this has an undesirable side effect of draining the moisture from the skin. Since humidifiers put moisture back into the air, your skin will not crack and peel. Bonus: It’s really good for your hair and unclogs your sinuses as well!
9 Easy Fixes for Your Skin on Those Dry Days
Use Overnight Masks: Wake up to softer skin looking forward to a plumper skin by applying an overnight mask. These masks are full of nutrients, and they are supposed to do their job while you are asleep.
Add a Face Oil: Mix face oil into your moisturizer and provide your skin with an extra boost from the skincare. They can enhance the skin with an additional layer of dampness and waterproof it at the same time.
Lip Care: Don’t forget about your lips! The fall breeze can make the lips rather dry and chapped, so there should always be a bottle of lip balm nearby and used frequently.
Skincare Beyond the Face
Your body needs love too! The cooler weather could further crack your hands, legs, and feet. If you plan to wear a dress choose a moisturizing and massaging lotion, applying it more on the knee area and elbow creases. There are always numerous benefits of applying body lotion for example after taking a shower because it keeps the skin soft all day.
Following these tips, you will be able to protect your skin from the so-called ‘fall attacks’ and won’t have any problems with your skin in the colder months. Besides, don’t we all strive to have beautiful clean skin for all the parties starting from now till the holiday season selfies?
So gear up for this lovely season of fall and start working on your skin from now on. It is this simple that with these changes you will not only go through the change of seasons but live through them fully.