What is Dry Skin & How to take care?

Everyone has different skin types depending upon their daily routines, body, Age and many more factors.

Don't know your skin types?

No worries, I will share tricks to identify your skin type in another blog section.

Let's see our first skin type in detail

what is dry skin?

Dry skin people having less amount of water and natural oil in their skin. They are suffering from irritating /itchy skin due to dehydration, cracky, patchy similar as shown in the figure. Dry skin affects equally on both male and female.some times it might be due to the side effect of medicines, any particular disease, harsh chemical products.

Important factors for dry skin:

1) Winter: Generally, In winter season every one suffers from dry skin(Including Normal skin).

Our skin tends to lose its moisture and natural oil in skin due to the coldness.

Cold weather and low humidity not only leaves our dry skin but it removes the natural oil from the skin.

2) Disease:

More specifically, people suffering from the Eczema, Psoriasis, Ichthyosis, diabetes, kidney stones having severe dry skin issues.

3) Genes: some times its hereditary issue.one of your family member is having oily skin and that's why you are having the same due to genes.

4) Aging process: As you are aware our skin sheds daily. Due to aging, our body tends to produce less natural oil in our gland.

5) Daily routines: In our busy schedules we ignore our daily skin routine care .some times due to the harsh chemical products in your home can cause dry skin.

Skincare routine :

1)Moisturizer:

 This is one of the most important parts of our skin care. Moisturizing our skin at day and night will boost our skin healthiness. It will balance your PH level it will regularly produce natural oil within your glands. It will nourish your skin and soothes from the dryness.
After the bath, pat your skin dry and then apply good quality of moisturizer to your whole body and at bedtime.

Then questions come up which moisturizer dry skin  people should prefer

Here have given the list of compounds which should be in your moisturizers.

a)Ceramides- It holds the water and it soothes affected the area of your skin. Its basically lipids /fats that are found naturally in high amount, in your upper skin area. Due to age and the sun, our skin less likely produced it.

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b)Glycerine- This is the best medicine for the dry skin as it balances your skin texture.it will not cause dehydration .after Applying also you will not feel any oiliness or greasiness on your skin. It is always recommended to use glycerine with another substance like rose water, Allo vera gel, honey, lemon, any natural oil.
If you directly use the glycerine on a daily basis, you will observe darkness on your skin.

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c) Hyaluronic acid- 

It is naturally present in your body mainly in the fluids in eyes and joints.
Uses: It has been observed that it's used as a lip filler  in plastic surgery
          Some people use it to prevent  ulcers, dry skin, sunburn,
          used in various joints disorders
          It can be taken by mouth or apply on skin or in the form of moisturizers or via injections.
         
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2)Tonner 

Toners are the best medicine for people with oily or acne-pronounce skin.
After washing your face and after bath your pores get opened hence you need to apply good quality of toner on your skin.


Why should we use a toner?

Here you can find out the actual   reasons:
1. Reduced pores
Apply a small amount of toner on a soft cotton ball and wipe your face with. It will remove excess oil and reduce the size of pores.

2.  PH balance.
As you know our skin is naturally acidic. But that balance gets disturbed when we use any chemical soaps, face washes. we need something which can restore our skin balance back to normal.

3.  protection.
It helps close pores and tightens cell after washing, Bathing. It also reduces the impurities and environmental contaminants into the skin. 
It can even protect, remove chlorine, minerals present in water.

4. Moisturizer.
 Sometimes tonners are used as a moisturizer. Its basically tone your skin evenly. it gives a nice texture and makes it more soften and healthier.

5. Refresh

If you daily use a tonner you will see a measurable difference in your skin. It refreshes your skin

3)Face Wash

If you are having dry skin then it is very important that what facewash you should use?
There are plenty of myths for washing your face.like people think that they are having dry skin so they should not use any face wash or after using face wash they feel their skin will be drier.

This is not true actually!!  Tell me one thing if you don't clean your face what will happen? If you don't clean your face on a daily basis then all the dirt, pollution impurities will be stick to your skin, you will have big pore problems. Due to to the dirt you will also  face the acne problem😨


Don'ts:

• Do not wash your face with water on a regular basis, As it will remove your natural oil from the skin.
• Do not use hot water for a bath or washing your face, it will widen your pores & create a problem, use lukewarm water.
• Don't take shower for more than 5 minutes. you can take a shower only 1 time a day
• Avoid chemical based harsh face washes.

Do's:

• Use face wash having with mild substance.
• Use faces wash twice a day one in the morning and secondly at the bedtime.
• Try to use a cleanser containing moisturizer only. It will restore the moisture and natural oil in your skin after washing too. you will feel your skin light and smooth. After washing your face feeling more dryness, tight, dehydrated try a different one.
• Use hydrating face washes like Himalaya's Gentle Hydrating  Face wash or Lacto calamine, Dove Etc.

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4)Bodywash-

Choose body wash which should have mild ingredients and it must be soap free chemicals.
It must contain cream based moisturizer which can leave skin to smoothen after washing it.

Addition points to be remembered...!!

1)Clothes

It's a very important factor in your personality.you should wear clothes which not just make you look better but it should make you comfortable. Avoid tight clothes, it will cause irritation and redness on your skin. Your skin cannot breathe in tight clothes.

2)Water

For dry skin, you should not just keep your skin hydrated but your whole body should be hydrated.

Drink plenty of water as much you can. Minimum 10-12 glasses of water.

3)Food:

Healing from inside is always a better option for any skin issue. We should involve Omega fatty acids in your food.
Either by taking supplements  or by fish, by fruits  or by any syrup, oil
It will help in retaining your natural oil from the skin.

Have plenty of green leafy vegetables and salad, needless to say, diet plays an important role for healthier skin. 


Involve these many things in your daily diet.

• Almond oil
• Avocados
• yogurt
• Egg whites
• olives
• coconut oil
• Milk

4)Home remedies

There are multiple home remedies available in the market. I will share it in the separate section suitable for all the skin types.