Now the winter tyres are on the car, the ice and snow clearing equipment is on standby in the garage (we don’t want to get caught out this year….), indoors the central heating is belting out we are suffering again. Dry flaky skin.
I receive a lot of questions about skincare daily via my blog. When I first began with the blog my idea was to share my knowledge about skincare with other people. Now that I have been busy for almost two years with it, it seems like a rather arrogant thought to have had. Because I steal a lot from people who have responded to my blog. I get to know about new products, I am also sometimes confronted with the fact that ‘what is written in theory’ doesn’t always have the same outcome ‘in practice’ and am regularly asked to find out about things which I don’t know very much about myself. For instance this story about tap water…
Everyone has had dry skin at sometime. Flaky skin, dry lines, red patches; dry skin can sometimes all of a sudden add a couple of years on to you. Fortunately there is a lot that can be done, but before taking action you first need to determine the cause.
Did I feel guilty this morning when I woke up! For the first time in 18 months I haven’t managed to write a new piece in my blog within a week…. And although I would like to say that it is because of all the presentations that needed to be made, books that need to be completed and e-mails that could no longer wait, there is no valid excuse. Although, a ‘numerous’ course dinner for more than enough adults (and even more children) and a mountain of guests are actually enough reasons for staying in bed for at least a week….To make up for it today a blog about Moisturizer. As I so often get asked: “which product is best for me?” Most people that read my blog now know that irritating substances aren’t good and that attractive marketing doesn’t really say very much. But what is good then? Below you’ll find a list.
Last week I wrote about the benefits of using of a mask in ‘put on a mask’. Although a mask is not an essential part of your beauty regime, some people enjoy relaxing with a mask on now and again… It’s just a pity that the quality of the masks quite often vary ( and that is putting it finely).
If the magazines are to be believed then your ‘skincare regime’ is not complete without a weekly mask. I’ve personally never had enough patience for them. Besides I’m always a bit scared of being caught out by the rest of my family with a strange white face. Some people do swear by them.
Can you become addicted to your lip balm? There are perfectly normal people with an addiction to lip balm, but it is a “psychic” phenomenon and doesn’t have anything to do with physiological tolerance. It might sound strange, but if you are to believe the text displayed on the site http://www.lipbalmanonymous.com/is-lip-balm-addictive/ then there are a lot of people that become uneasy if they are unable to apply their lip balm on time.
I read in a travel book that it is best not to use a moisturiser in extremely cold regions. This is slightly contradictory, because your skin becomes more dry in winter and therefore you do need to use a moisturising cream. A good reason to delve into this topic!
Snow and ice. Although it looks like we are living in a winter wonderland, it also creates problems here and there. Not only in transportation and construction, but also for the skin.
Previously I wrote that perfume is not meant to go on skin. Worse still, it is the number 1 allergen in skincare products. Above all it can cause premature skin ageing.