How to take care of your skin in winter when your skin has been itching for many years

Every winter I can clearly feel my skin itching and it has not improved for many years. My skin is particularly rough and itchy. If I touch it gently with my hand, I can see some dandruff falling off. This situation has been going on for many years and is getting worse year by year. I know it has something to do with my age. The older I get, the faster I lose moisture, and the drier my skin becomes. A friend found out and told me some common sense I need to know about skin care in winter. Now let's talk about it with you.

Cleansing: Keeping the skin fresh is the first step in skin care and the key to skin care. Cleansing can promote skin metabolism, increase skin absorption function, prevent skin diseases, and delay skin aging and wrinkles. To clean the skin, you can simply wash it with water, or use facial cleansers, cleansing creams, etc. Washing your face with water 2 to 3 times a day is the basis. In winter, use facial cleanser to wash your face. People with neutral skin can use it once a day, or every other day. People with dry skin should use it once every 2 to 3 days, and people with oily skin should use it about once a day. In short, it is best to keep your skin fresh. The water used for washing your face should preferably be boiled water cooled to about 36 degrees; for people with oily skin, the temperature can be slightly higher, about 38 degrees; for people with dry skin, the temperature can be slightly lower, about 34 degrees. You can also wash it with warm water and then rinse it with cold water to shrink the pores. However, people with sensitive or dry skin should not wash their face with cold water alone. When washing your face, you can use your fingertips to massage from the inside to the outside, and finally wipe it dry with a soft towel. Facial cleanser should be mild in nature and not too much should be used. Just apply it thinly to the entire face and massage for about 5 minutes.

Moisturizing: Appropriately increase the use of skin care products. The weather is dry in winter and the temperature drops. The skin's metabolism has not fully adapted to the climate changes, which reduces the secretion of the skin's sweat glands and makes it appear very dry. In winter, women's epidermis contains less water, becomes dry and flaky. At this time, you should increase the amount of skin care products you use appropriately to ensure that your skin is adequately nourished and maintained. Skin care products should be creams and ointments with strong moisturizing and nourishing effects. Not only the facial skin needs care, but the skin on the limbs and torso also needs moisture and nutrition. You can choose to use body lotion or moisturizing milk, and apply a thin layer on your skin after taking a bath every day. This can keep your skin soft, smooth and elastic, delay aging, and prevent and assist in the treatment of certain skin diseases, such as atopic dermatitis, winter pruritus, ichthyosis, etc.

Sun protection: Choose a sunscreen with a low sunscreen index. In winter, although the ultraviolet rays in the sun are not as strong as in summer, and the medium-wave and long-wave ultraviolet rays are weakened, ultraviolet rays are still the most common cause of skin aging and darkening. Therefore, we should also pay attention to sun protection in winter, as the intensity of ultraviolet rays may be higher than in summer.

The contents introduced above are all common sense about how to care for your skin in winter when you have itchy skin for many years. Only then did I realize the importance of skin care. My friend said that people like us with dry and itchy skin should learn how to care for our skin, as skin care can make us look significantly younger. The skin will become elastic and delicate. This kind of skin care will not change your skin in a day or two, it requires persistence for a long time.