How to Protect Your Skin in Winter

When summer ends, we often put away our sunscreen and forget about protecting our skin. We stop worrying about UV rays and concentrate on keeping warm. Unfortunately, winter conditions can be even more harmful to your skin than summer sun. You should continue to protect your skin against UV rays and also against winter's ever present dry air and cold wind.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

1. Apply liberal amounts of sunscreen when you spend time outside. Snow and ice reflect UV rays back to your skin, increasing the amount of exposure you receive to these harmful rays. This is not the time to put away your sunscreen.
2. Use a deep penetrating moisturizer on your face. These products are formulated to help moisture work its way into the layers of skin on your face, protecting you from the drying affects of winter wind and central heating.
3. Stash a lip balm in your pocket, in your purse, in your desk and in your car's glove box. This essential product will prevent and heal chapped lips.
4. Turn on your humidifier. Cold winter air and central heating pull all the moisture out of the air and out of your skin. Use your humidifier to counteract the biggest cause of dry winter skin.
5. Store your favorite hand lotion beside both the kitchen and bathroom sinks and beside the bathtub. Apply hand lotion immediately after washing and drying your hands. Slather your body with lotion within 3 minutes of getting out of the tub or shower.