During the cold winter months the air humidity levels drop and your skin feels dry. What you're experiencing is an increase in TEWL, transepidermal waterloss. This process can be slowed down with the right products to help lock in the moisture in your skin and avoid itchiness and redness. Here are our top tips for layering winter skincare when dealing with sensitive or problem skin. In general dry skin will need more oils, while oily and combination skin that may be out of whack due to dehydration may need to go higher on hydrating (i.e. humectant-rich) products.
Cleansing
Firstly, opt for a more gentle cleanser that both cleanses and restores skin. Our Mild Milk Cleanser is made with nourishing canola oil and conditioning xylitol to gently cleanse your skin, leaving it feeling both fresh and comfortable. Bonus: the Milk can be used for waterless cleansing. Apply to dry skin and tissue or wipe off with a cotton pad.
Our nourishing and deeply cleansing oil is gentle on your skin. The Nourishing Oil Cleanser is the perfect way to start your day or really take the day off - without disturbing your skin's barrier. Skin is left feeling clean and soft.
Humectants
Start your layering by adding hydration to your skin. Our Balancing Essence balances, hydrates, soothes and conditions with multitasking, natural ectoin, smoothing sea kelp and calming liquorice root.
If your face is super irritated, reach for our hydrating and soothing Calming Serum instead, with 1.5% repairing madecassoside. Like the Essence it's oil-free, but in a thicker base.
Oils
Now it's time to reach for a cream. For those with very dry or dry skin, we recommend our Rich Face Cream, which is a thich and rich, oil-based moisturiser. Despite the high oil content the Rich Face Cream does not leave the skin feeling greasy. Swedish cosmetic-grade rapeseed oil and Fazer's Finnish oat oil often and condition skin, while classic humectants glycerin and sodium PCA moisturise, and colloidal oatmeal prevents water loss, leaving your skin feeling hydrated and nourished.
For those with combination skin that's prone to dryness or skin prone to e.g. rosacea and irritation, our Hydrating Face Mask & Cream with rhamnose sugar and sunflower seed oil doubles as both a face mask and moisturiser. This is also a great choice for oily skin that needs extra winter care.
If your face is really feeling the cold, next up are our pure oil products: the Softening Face Oil and the All-Around Balm. The Oil is an easily absorbed mixture of repairing argan oil, softening oat oil, soothing raspberry oil and regenerating rosehip oil to leave skin feeling soft and nourished. It's suitably for all skin types, due to its balanced fatty acid profile. If you have oilier skin, simply use just a few drops. You can layer the Oil directly over any hydrating product, like our Essence, or over any product containing both humectants and oils, like the Rich Face Cream or Hydrating Face Mask & Cream.
Finish your layering with our waterless, conditioning and protective multi-purpose All-Around Balm, which is made from repairing argan oil and softening oat oil, with bisabolol to soothe and heal. It's great as a cold weather cream but also to for treating rough and irritated skin. Always remember to use a hydrating product under, as the Balm is 100% oil-based and oils cannot attract water and as such moisturise skin.
