Tips for Treating Dry Skin on Your Face

How is your dry skin defined?

Is it dull in colour or rough to the touch?

Or has your skin’s ability to maintain hydration decreased?

Maybe your skin is inflamed and red in some areas.

This can disrupt the lipids in your skin.

Treating Dry Skin

When your skin feels rough and tight, it’s natural to want to add more moisture, but adding too much moisture can be counterproductive.

An interesting study (1) on dry skin compared the water content of dry, regular, and oily skin and found no significant differences among them.

The surprising outcome was that healthy skin contains only about 30% water.

This is why treating dry skin on the face can be challenging. If you want to give your skin exactly what it needs, you must understand that the frequency and consistency of treatments are critical.

This topic is covered in depth in this article.

The Barrier Function

Dry skin requires both oil and water to achieve balance.

Dry skin produces very little sebum (oil), so it requires surface protection from occlusive ingredients that help protect the outer layer of your skin. This allows the barrier function to repair itself while preventing dehydration.

If your skin feels dehydrated, it lacks water and requires humectants, important hydrophilic agents that attract water and bind moisture to your skin cells.

How to Treat Your Dry Skin

If you have dry skin, we recommend this skincare routine to our clients.

Sunscreen: Wear sunscreen religiously; many dry skin concerns stem from cumulative sun exposure.

Cleanse: Use an oil-based cleanser like Miracle Cleanse and gently massage it in to help break down stubborn makeup bonds.

Tone: To prepare your skin for essential ingredients, it should be moist. Spray your skin with a non-alcoholic toner, preferably one rich in lovely humectants, and gently pat your skin dry.

Moisturise: Next, your skin needs barrier-repairing ingredients like those in the fortify barrier repair moisturiser, which replenish your skin’s natural lipids.

Exfoliate: Treating dry skin on the face can be challenging; it often appears flat and dull.

A gentle, well-formulated exfoliant will help loosen stubborn skin cells, removing cellular buildup and replacing them with newer, smoother ones.

If your skin is sensitive, use this treatment occasionally, perhaps once a week or less.

This will encourage gentle stimulation of the cell renewal cycle, promoting the healthy function of your skin, improving hydration, and the natural production of intercellular lipids.

Be sure to use only gentle exfoliants, avoiding those with abrasive ingredients that can cause inflammation and tiny micro-tears in your skin.

Serums: These products provide your skin with an additional layer of moisturisation with an emphasis on layering. Start with a good oil base, such as Xcell skin shot, if your skin is dehydrated.

If dehydrated, use a humectant-rich base such as the H20 skin shot.

Masks: A hydrating algae- or gel-based mask loaded with lovely water-loving humectants is perfect for soothing dry, irritated skin.

To Conclude. The naked truth

As you can see, a lot is involved in treating dry skin on your face.

The key is to heal your barrier function and bring your skin’s pH back into balance.

You can do this by implementing some of the following:

• Avoid rough scrubs with irregular beads, as these can cause tiny micro-tears in your skin
• Avoid harsh cleansing ingredients like sodium lauryl sulfate, as your dry skin can be sensitive to contact irritants
• Avoid irritating fragrances and essential oils that could dry your skin out
• Avoid products with high or low pH, and never overstimulate your skin with astringent products or alcohol-based ingredients
• to treat dry skin on face. This means that this study demonstrates that soap should be off-limits (2). This is because its high pH strips the skin’s barrier and impairs the acid mantle

After bathing, your skin dries out quickly because moisture evaporates into dry air.

Be sure to apply a moisturiser immediately after bath or shower to help seal in that much-needed moisture.