How to Moisturize Skin With Moist Heat

It's possible to moisturize your skin on a deeper level by using moist heat to help the moisturizer penetrate your skin. The other benefit to using moist heat is that the whole experience will be more relaxing and soothing than simply slapping on the cream.

Instructions

1. Decide which skin surface you'd like moisturized with moist heat. There's different techniques for different areas. The face, for example, is much more sensitive than your feet.

2. Create your own personal steam room to use moist heat to moisturize your body at home. This requires some wasting of water, so it's better if you have access to an actual steam room. But if you don't, run the shower at a very hot temperature for about 10 or 15 minutes so that your bathroom steams up. Don't turn on the fan. Undress, wrap your hair in a towel and lather yourself in the moisturizer of your choice from head to toe. If you're using a public steam room, you're going to have to wrap yourself in a towel or wear a swimsuit.

3. Sit in the steamed up bathroom or steam room for about 15 minutes. Leave the room and rub the remainder of the moisturizer into your skin. Put on a robe and relax as your skin completely dries.

4. Spot moisturize with moist heat by applying moisturizer to the area requiring attention. Cover the area with a wet, hot towel for several minutes.

Tips & Warnings

• It's best to use these techniques before you go to bed or when you don't need to get dressed and go somewhere immediately afterwards.

• Baby oil works great on very dry and calloused areas of the skin when using moist heat to moisturize.

• Do not use moist heat to moisturize your skin if you have a skin condition like psoriasis. While keeping your skin moist is important with this type of condition, the heat might aggravate it and cause flare-ups.