Skincare: How to Adapt Your Routine for Fall and Winter
October 28, 2024
As temperatures drop and humidity levels decrease, your skin encounters new challenges. The fall and winter months can leave your skin feeling dry, irritated, and more sensitive than usual. Adjusting your skincare routine for the season is essential to keep your skin healthy, hydrated, and glowing throughout the colder months. Here’s how to modify your regimen to provide your skin with the care it deserves.
- Cleansing – Switch to a Hydrating Cleanser
In the summer, gel-based cleansers and foaming washes effectively control oil. However, cooler weather requires more nourishing formulas.
Winter Adaptation:
- Switch to cream or oil-based cleansers
- Consider double cleansing only at night
- Use lukewarm (never hot) water
- Reduce cleansing to once daily if skin feels tight
2. Moisturize – Add a Heavier Moisturizer
The dry, cold air can dehydrate your skin quickly—transition from lightweight lotions to richer moisturizers.
Winter Adaptation:
- Moisturizers with hyaluronic acid, shea butter, or squalane to deeply nourish.
- Apply to slightly damp skin
3. Serum – Hydrating Serum
For dry skin, try layering a hydrating serum beneath your moisturizer to enhance moisture retention.
Winter Adaptation:
- Consider higher concentrations
- Use multiple layers
- Add barrier-supporting ingredients
4. Sunscreen – Protection
UV rays are still present during colder months! Even on cloudy days, UVA rays can cause premature aging and skin damage.
Winter Adaptation:
- Continue using SPF daily (UV rays penetrate clouds)
- Moisturizer-sunscreen hybrids enhanced hydration
- Cream-based sunscreens create protective barrier
5. Lip Care – Protection
Lips and hands are the first areas to suffer in colder weather.
Winter Adaptation:
- Use Hydrating lip serum/treatment
- Moisturizing lip balm with SPF
- Apply an intensive overnight lip mask or treatment
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