Special care for winter legs
Our winter-wise care and beauty tips will help you get the best winter legs ever!
Moisturize!
Cold, dry air outside and warm, centrally heated dry air inside are the main stress factors for winter skin. Therefore, the number one winter skin care rule is simply: moisturize! Even if your skin is rather oily in summer, you should consider switching to an oil-based moisturizer to give your skin the protection it needs right now. Delicate areas such as shins and elbows tend to get extra-dry in winter – try applying a really rich, heavy duty moisturizing cream several times a day.
Feed your skin
Beauty is more than skin deep! Especially in winter, your skin needs all the right nutrients to boost its natural resources and look and feel its very best. Make sure your diet is well balanced, with lots of fresh vegetables, fruit and fibre – and, perhaps most important of all: drink lots and lots and lots of water to replenish your body’s dried-out moisture reserves!
Perfect winter workouts
Those happy days of poolside lounging may be over, but that doesn’t mean that your legs can’t get in really (really!) great shape! Take advantage of the cold weather and try out winter sports like Nordic skiing or ice-skating! Both are not only a great way to enjoy the big outdoors, but will also give you the most shapely, strong, and irresistibly beautiful legs.
Winter home spa
Is it cold, wet, and just plain yucky outside? Good! That’s the perfect weather for a nice, nurturing home spa day. Get out those scented candles, invite your best friend over, put on your favourite music and off you go!
Bath vs. shower
There’s nothing nicer than slipping into a nice, hot bath when it’s cold and ugly outside. However, you should be sure not to overdo it: keep the bath short and the water not too hot. For your home spa day, a bath is perfectly okay, but you should alternate with short, warm showers on the other days. After the bath, pat your skin dry and apply moisturizer or body oil immediately while the skin is still warm and damp to seal in the moisture.
What to wear in winter
In winter your skin has little contact with the outside air and lots of contacts with your clothing, so make sure that this is a nice experience, not an abrasive one! Friction caused by clothing stresses the skin – a main criterion when choosing your winter wardrobe should therefore be: does it feel good? Go for natural or functional fabrics that let your skin breathe and don’t cause too much friction.
Humidify
Dry air is your skin’s main winter adversary! Outside it’s dry because cold air contains less humidity. There is little you can do about that, unless you’re willing to relocate to South America. Inside, heating may decrease the humidity to levels below 30% - something you can do something about! And you won’t even have to turn off the heat and shiver under your duvet! Just get a good humidifier and create a nice, sufficiently humid (yet not tropical) atmosphere – your skin (and your respiratory tract) will love it!
Get a winter tan!
Don’t you like your skin best with a nice, sun-kissed tan? Unfortunately, winter doesn’t offer too many opportunities for full-body sunbathing. But never mind the sun – you can get a great, even, and just-right tan at home. Just use some high-quality self-tanning lotion or spray. Gently exfoliate before applying the product, and make sure to spread it evenly. And as for the sun outside: while it may appear rather pale, its rays still cause some severe skin aging! So be sure to use sunscreen (maybe switch to a more moisturizing kind for winter) whenever you’re exposed to the sun.
