Heating and cooling air defy: Skin care in winter

Freezing cold outside, dry air indoors heating temperature fluctuations make the skin in the winter to create. They lose moisture, a stretching or burning is felt in the face.
"The natural lipid film that covers the skin is attacked," says the skin doctor Gisela Hubbs of Professional Association of German Dermatologists in Hamburg. Thus, the smallest skin cracks, the germ can penetrate, and in the worst case, lead to eczema. With the right care can prevent it.
Before each course to the outside should increment are advised Hanne Vedder, cosmetics expert consumer Baden-Wuerttemberg in Stuttgart. To make it on the skin with cold temperatures to frostbite, it will ensure better a fat instead of a cream used moist shale term activity. The easiest way is according to Vedder, the night cream for day cream and the day umzu funktionieren instead evening provided. "There are also special winter beauty, but it seems to me to be exaggerated."
Hubbs recommends creams with ceramides: This occurs in the skin fats are for the moisture content responsible. They embed themselves in the upper horny layer of the skin and act as reservoirs. "In addition to a lipid or fat-care products are gels containing urea. The "Urea" said agent also binds moisture in the skin. "He activated the cells and it also has an anti-aging effect," says Dagmar Schulenberg Fachverband by German naturopaths (FDH) in Bonn, which also operates as a beautician.
A similar smoothing effect glycerin: It was not only a healing function, but also makes the skin smooth. In addition to the skin should be maintained in the lips, such as pens or lip care products from beeswax. But creams is not everything. "I would advise, in these months, often a facial mask to make," says Verbraucherschutzerin Vedder. They can be very easily with all that "what is there in the household," even touch: A mixture of cottage cheese and egg or honey and promotes relaxed circulation.
In order to relieve feelings of tension, it is normal cooking easy angewarmt. It should be 10 to 15 minutes in the face there. Especially the vitamin E-containing sunflower oil in this way protect against moisture loss. Also, in winter the washing habits to the test: "Take something lipid evening, so as a cleansing milk, and some mornings Hydrohaltiges, ie a washing gel," says Schulenberg.
And what in the water for the face is – too cold or too hot water dries out the skin – also applies to the rest of the body: "Avoid long, hot baths, so that the skin film is not damaged," says Hubbs. This will of sebum and sweat and build up in the winter is not as fast as in the summer. Makes sense, only briefly and not too hot showers – and no more than five minutes, only three times a week. It should not shower, but retroactive greasy shower used.
But not only externally can something against dry winter skin do. The experts recommend drinking enough. That would, in this time of year is often neglected because the thirst sensation of cold days is not so great. Schulenberg advises Also "herbal antibiotic" in the diet include: onions, garlic, ginger or fennel about making a positive impact on the skin. And finally: Even regular airing overheated rooms affects the drying of the skin opposite.