Soothe Winter-Stressed Skin With These Tips!

Is your skin freaking out due to the dry, winter air? Yeah. Me too! I asked Marina Valmy, Director of Christine Valmy Skincare, for some tips on how to quell winter skin madness! Here, her...

"Winter causes stress on the skin because the lack of moisture in the environment causes the skin not to shed normally, and this causes:

  1. Build up of dead cells. Cold weather causes the intracellular glue made out of lipids, cholesterol, etc to become more solid, not allowing cells to flake off easily.

  2. Dryness on the surface is actually dehydration. As the weather gets colder, the moisture drops to the ground, and there is less moisture in the air, which causes any moisture in the skin to evaporate.

  3. Irritation is caused by the fact that the lipid layer or acid mantle on the surface is not able to be spread over the skin evenly. The acid mantle made out of fats and is a protective shield against the environmental offensive: bacteria and pollution etc. When it’s cold out, it’s not able to be spread evenly on the surface of the skin, creating gaps. This causes the skin to become irritated.

All of the above cause stress on the skin. If a skin is oily, the oiliness cannot come out, so the pores get more clogged. This causes pimples that leave larger scar tissue. If the skin is dry, then fine wrinkles can start appearing. When these start appearing, even in a young skin, they’re signs of premature aging. In young skin, the elasticity is very good, so when you smile you see the wrinkles, but skin bounces back quickly. If you look closely with a special magnifying lamp, you can see a slight break in the surface of the skin in the area where that smile line was. As the skin ages, that becomes a wrinkle! Therefore, for oily skin, it is imperative to maintain the skin surface from drying out, so that the oiliness being produced can come out. For dry skin, it’s vital for skin not to become dry."

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