Is your shower routine keeping your skin dry?

    I love Fall. I do not love dry skin. Most people start to worry about dry skin when the winter sets in.  This year I choose to be proactive about dry skin, and nip it in the bud before I become so ashy that we could play tic tac toe on my forearm.
  Well what causes dry skin?   Assuming you do not have a serious medical condition or take drugs  some other dry skin culprits are dry air,  delicious hot showers, soap, and misusing moisturizer.
  Dry air is a no brainer so lets move on to our other  villains.
  Hot showers. sigh. What  girl does not like to grab a scentastic bath bomb, crank up the bubbles, and jump into a scalding hot tub? I like the shower to be so hot that  when I get out my skin resembles a cooked lobster.  You know that tight feeling you get when you step out? That means  you just
succeeded in drying out your skin. boo!
  Whats a girl to do? Make sure the water is lukewarm, and while  you shave or lather up angle the shower head away from you so that the water is not constantly beating on your skin. As far as the bath, well we are all going to indulge once in awhile, but maybe the cold months arent the best time to be soaking your problems in the bath tub.
  SOAP! all soap is not created equal. We have somehow been brainwashed to think we need to scrub the living day lights out of our body with harsh anit bacterial soap that has to lather. Lets be logical for a minute. What do you do for a living?  Allow me enough room to assume, that if  you care about dry skin, then you probably do not engage in a profession that leaves you saoked in mud.  You do not need to scrub your skin like a dirty bath tub.  You also do not need soap to lather to get you clean. It is just a psychological mis conception.  in truth all that lather is just washing up all your natural oil. If you dont want to contribute to your dry skin problem look for a mild soap that wont take all your natural oil out.
 Lastly don't spend 40 dollars on moisturizer and not use it right. Always lather up when your skin is moist. that's when your skin eats it up.
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