FALL & WINTER SKINCARE.

Now that we are in the colder months, it is important for you to upgrade your skincare routines. Sometimes you do not need to upgrade your skin cleanser but upgrading your face moisturizer is necessary to nourish your dry skin during fall & winter. So, I am in love with facial oils and creams. I love my skin feeling hydrated and dewy. This is especially important during fall and winter for me. As I stated before, I have the most dry and sensitive ass skin ever. Sometimes I look in the mirror and try to understand why majority of the products I try out burn and irritate my poor face. I cannot explain to you how frustrating this is for me. I be rolling my damn eyes in disgust when a product burns my skin. Luckily, I found a few products I am going to share with all that I have been enjoying.

Face creams are usually the best to use during the colder months. Face creams appear to be:

• Thicker in consistency
• Mixture of oil and water-50/50 oil to water ratio
• Usually greasier because the oil concentration is higher
• Protect the skin barrier and keeps the skin more hydrated
• Heals dry, cracked, and irritated faster than a face lotion
• Creams are typically sold in a jar container

When you are searching for a face cream make sure it has some of these ingredients in it:

• Hyaluronic Acid
• Ceramides
• Emollients
• AHA’s
• Retinol
• Vitamin E
• Sweet Almond Oil
• Jojoba Oil
• Argan Oil
• Squalene Oil
• Glycerin
• Lactic Acid
• Grapeseed oil and many more facial oils

Adding facial oils can provide extra hydration to your skin care routine as well. Depending on the consistency of the oil, you can layer it under or on top of your moisturizer. Before purchasing a facial oil, make sure you pick the best one for your skin type. I usually enjoy facial oils that are cold-pressed as they absorb into my skin better than expeller pressed oils.

Here are some of the recent products I have tried out:

Cetaphil Moisturizing Cream $16.00: I know I said I cannot use Cetaphil products in my previous post, but baybee the new and improved formula they released this year is amazing. It absorbs into the skin way better. I recently disrupted my moisture barrier and this has been soothing it.

Jason Vitamin E 5000 IU Crème: this has a very thick consistency and is best to use at night. Vitamin E has wonderful healing properties and can help reduce the sign of wrinkles, hyperpigmentation, repair the moisture the barrier and etc.

Here are two facial oils I have enjoyed to which are Vitamin E Oil and Sweet Almond Oil. These both absorb well into the skin and pair great with these two face creams I mentioned above.

Those are just a couple of options I provided for you. There are other face creams and oils you can research to find out what is best for your skin type.