Winter is a time that brings the most intense dehydration to your skin and body. Cold, dry air outside combined with heated, dry air inside provides a double whammy, making your skin and body vulnerable to hydration loss. Hydration busters include:
Winter is the most difficult for staying hydrated and can cause your skin to lose its ability to hold moisture by 25 percent or more.
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It’s best to address dehydration at the whole-body level as well as directly on your skin. In winter, it’s essential to avoid harsh cleansers, hot water, and excess alcohol or caffeine to support your all-important skin barrier and lock in moisture. Even though you might not be able to see the sun, the UV rays are still there. Using sunscreen by day when you go outside and an overnight humidifier while you sleep. Both will help prevent moisture loss.
It may be cold and the instinct to get warm is strong, but avoid overdoing hot showers, baths, hot tubs, heated pools, saunas and steam rooms. Too much heat is no friend to dehydration.
It’s also important to get enough sleep and avoid stress. Both issues can impact your body and your skin.
A few common signs of whole-body dehydration are thirst, less frequent urination and dark yellow urine. Other signs may include:
The pinch test can confirm poor skin turgor, which is when your skin fails to bounce back. Pinch your skin and if it is slow to return to form, you’re probably dehydrated.
Here at our clinic, we offer an exceptional aid to counteract whole-body dehydration. It’s called IV Therapy and it not only helps to restore fluid loss but the vitamins and minerals that are also depleted as a result of fluid loss.
IV Therapy not only rehydrates you on the inside, but it shows on the outside too, resulting in more resilient, hydrated skin. But your skin may need direct help on the surface too.
It’s essential to select the right skincare products. The best moisturizers for dehydrated skin should do more than just rest on the surface of your skin looking greasy. Dehydrated skin involves a lack of moisture, not oil. That’s basically the difference between dry skin and dehydrated skin. Are you sure which one you are dealing with? If not, we can help.
For dehydrated skin, it’s important to source products with ingredients like hyaluronic acid and other specific ingredients that help to draw and lock in moisture. We offer a variety of skincare lines like Zo Skin Health, Eminence, and Plated that offer products to maintain a healthy skin barrier, boost hydration, and promote your body’s production of ceramides.
Our line of Hydrafacials ranging from Signature/Deluxe/Platinum can help rescue dehydrated, winter-ravaged skin:
This treatment deeply cleanses, exfoliates, extracts, and hydrates the skin for amazing, fast results.
Deluxe HydraFacial is a treatment that includes all of the essentials of the Signature HydraFacial while addressing your specific skin concern with a Booster of your choice. Finish your treatment with LED Light Therapy to further reduce the visible signs of aging.
The ultimate HydraFacial experience for your face, neck and décollete. This treatment includes lymphatic drainage and deep exfoliation, followed by a customized booster serum, and LED Light Therapy.
Check out our Skincare Memberships for even more options.
As experts in Functional Medicine, we look beyond symptoms like dehydration to ascertain root causes. Is it simply that you are not drinking enough water or can your dehydration be traced to a medical condition or a side effect from medication? It’s important to understand the cause to find the right cure.
Schedule an appointment today. Call ☎ (952) 234-5898 or contact us online to make an appointment.
