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Use a thick cream as this contains more oil than water and will help seal in more moisture. Apply it to slightly wet skin thus sealing in extra moisture. This results in softer and smoother skin.
- Change your products according to
seasons
Extremes of cold and hot weather as well as central heating and air-conditioning can strip your skin of essential moisture, leaving it dry and more prone to damage.
For this reason you should change your products according to seasons. Leave your moisturizing mask on skin for 5 -10 minutes. It works quickly and it is a great treat, particularly after sunbathing, or when your skin feels tight. Better yet - it can even remove dry patches, flakiness and fine wrinkles.
Naturally, skin care does not stop at your neck. To maintain a beautiful body you should lavish same care on it as you do on your complexion.
- Use oils for bathing
If your skin is naturally dry, best way to re-hydrate your dry skin is - bathing.
However, when skin is toweled dry and left open to atmosphere, water exhales from surface of skin and your skin becomes dry again. That's why bathing by itself is not enough - exogenous water introduced into skin must stay kept there.
Bath oils contain vegetable or mineral oils and can be very useful for use in bath or shower.
Thus either add to bathwater as it is running an egg-cupful of oil or after taking shower apply oil directly to skin and then rinse it off before drying.
Also apply further moisturizers to skin either before or after drying after a bath.
References:
Chu T, Munn S, Acland ,Darvay A.Eczema. Current issues in Dermatology. Maxim Medical, The Oxford Science Park,1998
Fitzpatrick TB,Eisen AZ,Wolff K,Freedberg IM,Austen K.Dermatology in General Medicine.3.edition.New York: Mc Graw-Hill,1987
Maja Gabric Zirkelbach, a dermatologist, MD
Maja works as a dermatologist, occasionally writing articles on mature and dry skin. For more information on treating wrinkles of mature skin please visit http://www.bestwrinklecream.com
