Winter Skin Care - Look Beautiful This Winter 
Top 10 Winter Skin Care Beauty Secrets Try these winter skin care beauty secrets, because when the weather is cold, frosty and dry your skin can become dryer, flakier and more easily irritated.
It may surprise you to see how some women can manage to look beautiful and healthy, even in mid winter, while your skin appears dry and chapped. What are their winter skin care secrets?   Here are the Top 10 winter skin care beauty secrets to help you look beautiful this winter: 1. Always use a full-spectrum sunscreen even on cloudy days and when it’s chilly in winter. As you already know, the UVB rays are the burning rays in summer, but UVA rays are just as harmful and they are present all year round. UVA rays are responsible for causing wrinkles and skin cancer, and surprisingly, they can even penetrate glass. This means you are not safe from them even indoors or whilst driving your car. Always protect your skin with a good quality sunscreen in winter as well as summer. 2. Don’t stay in the bath or shower too long. Although it's tempting to enjoy a long hot soak on cold winter days your skin has a protective outer layer called the stratum corneum or acid mantle, which is a natural lipid barrier between your skin and the out side elements. This natural barrier becomes easily damaged when the temperature and humidity drops. Avoid prolonged bathing and using hot water. Water can sap moisture from this protective layer and when this happens it will leave your skin drier, flakier and more prone to damage or irritation especially in winter. Don’t stay in the bath so long that your skin goes all pink and wrinkly. 3. Cut down on using acids and astringents. During the cold winter months avoid using alpha-hydroxy acid products and astringents on your skin because many of them contain alcohol. Exfoliating is good practice but alcohol based products will strip your skin of vital protective oils, which will leave it sensitive and irritated. Always moisturize your skin well with a good moisturizer after exfoliating. 4. Humidify the air around you in your bedroom and office to prevent your skin drying out this winter. Humidifiers help to keep the air moist and will help to soothe your dry lips and chapped skin. Drink plenty of water to keep your skin hydrated from the inside. 5. Sip a warming hot cocoa and boost your antioxidant levels at the same time. Cocoa beans are a good natural source of flavonoids, one of the most powerful of the antioxidants. Drinking hot cocoa on a cold winter's evening will warm you up, make you feel good and give you a nice healthy glow. 6. Self-Tanning is a great way to give color to pale winter skin. With all the tinted moisturizers and tanning wipes on the market these days it’s easy to choose one... | 