Skin is a resilient organ that protects the body from external threats. If the skin suffers any damage, it can regenerate and repair itself rather quickly and resume its role as your body’s protective shell. While it is resilient, it has its limits, and that’s why we have skincare products and microneedling products that can address these issues. Lifestyle habits are one of the many reasons for skin imperfections. Some lifestyle habits that may affect your skin include smoking, drinking too much alcohol, overeating sugar or processed food, not getting enough sleep or exercise, and stress. But if you live a healthy lifestyle, you effectively avoid potential skin issues. However, there is one factor that some people seem to neglect about their skin, and that’s keeping an eye on climate and temperature changes.
Climate Affects The Skin More Than You Think
Skin is a living organ that needs to be taken care of to keep functioning correctly, and many things can cause damage or hurt it in different ways. Bad habits are certainly one thing, but you need to consider that climate is also a constant, persistent variable. Climate is a significant factor that affects our skin health. For example, as climate change and temperature change, people are more likely to have skin-related problems. Also, different geographical regions have a climate that varies from year to year. We need to be aware of this and protect our skin from the sudden onset of changes.
Why Some Neglect Skin Wellness When It Comes To Climate
Skin is our first line of defense against the environment. However, when it comes to climate-related skin conditions, people often neglect their skin wellness because they think there isn’t anything to do about it. There are some effective natural remedies for these conditions, but people tend to ignore them since they are either cumbersome or another expenditure on their part.
Another reason why some people neglect skin wellness is that they don’t know how to take care of their skin in the first place when it comes to climate.
You Can Act On It!
Fortunately, there are many things you can do to avoid these issues, and that’s by using preventative skincare products and microneedling. While they will certainly cost you something, it’s better than damaging your skin and causing aging signs to appear early.
How Climate Affects The Skin
Whatever the climate may be, cold, hot, humid, or anywhere in between, it will affect the skin. So we will discuss different climates and how you can do your skin wellness when experiencing these climates.
Cold Dry Weather
When it’s frigid outside, your skin will experience dryness, even dryer than what you expect during the hot summer months.
Your skin’s outermost layer is the epidermis, and part of the epidermis is the stratum corneum, also known as the skin barrier. This skin layer is composed of lipids and dying or dead skin cells. For this skin layer to work, it needs moisture. However, the cold weather, rain, snow, or harsh winds have stripped the skin barrier of its essential moisture. Your skin has natural moisturizing oils, but they too are stripped off thanks to the extreme cold weather.
What Happens To The Skin?
When there’s a lack of moisture, your skin will experience cracks, flaking, redness, itching, and rough patches. You may experience one of these symptoms one at a time or all of them together. The body also tries to protect itself from this harsh environment by producing more oil on the skin’s surface, which makes it feel better, but this process takes time, so there is a risk that your pores might become clogged with oil which could lead to acne breakouts.
What You Can Do About It
If possible, find a warm place to give your skin some space to recover its moisture. You can also assist the skin by applying Daily Moisture to restore your skin’s moisture and take advantage of Triple Lipid Restore to restore your skin’s external barrier.
Hot, Humid Weather
On the other hand, scorching weather also affects the skin negatively. Hot is one thing, but when it’s humid, everything around you is swelteringly hot even if you seek shade. Why is that?
When the air around you is humid, there is a lot of water vapor. Ordinarily, to keep ourselves cool, your body releases sweat that evaporates, thus cooling the skin. But since the air around you is thick with water vapor, there is no room for new vapor, which prevents it from evaporating. That’s why everything around you is uncomfortably hot. You are sweating but not necessarily cooling, not to mention the sun’s rays shining on you.
What Happens To The Skin?
Sweating is natural, but if they don’t go away due to humidity, it will cause skin problems. Excessive skin perspiration can cause oily skin to become worse. If you are acne-prone, it will lead to even more breakouts. The heat may also cause heat rash when extreme heat triggers your sweat ducts to get blacked. On top of that, the sun’s rays will cause sunburns if you overexpose yourself.
What Can You Do?
To reduce acne breakouts, you can use a Micro-Exfoliating Scrub to cleanse your pores and hydrate them to reduce acne breakouts. As for heat rash, you can use Calamine lotion. Finally, you can use Physical Fusion UV Defense, a broad-spectrum sunscreen to avoid sunburns.
Be Ready For Any Climate!
To prepare yourself for one climate to another, make sure that you have some skincare products to ensure that your skin stays healthy throughout. Perhaps some of these effects may be temporary and will go away on their own; it can affect you later on by hastening signs of aging. Another way you can prepare yourself for these harsh climates is by experiencing microneedling. While microneedling is often touted to reverse aging, it is also an effective tool to make your skin healthier and better prepared for the harsh climate ahead.
If you are interested in any of these skincare products or a microneedling treatment, make sure to reach out to HerSpace Medspa. Our clinic offers all of these services—so feel free to contact us anytime
