Skip Those Long, Hot Showers
Sunday December 28, 2008
It's winter and if you're like me, you practically have to force yourself out of the shower every morning. I could practically live in mine. There's nothing like hot steam to warm me up in the mornings and right before bed. But these hot showers can lead to dry, itchy skin. Furnaces and heat in buildings is sapping your skin of its moisture and those hot showers are too. To keep skin moist, try a cooler, shorter shower, exfoliate in the shower once a week (this removes dead skin cells and allows the moisturizer to soak in better) and slather yourself in baby oil or a thick moisturizer immediately after your bath.
Comments
It is too cold for me to have a shower in mornings in this season! So I have a bath in every evening. I agree with you saying that hot water leads to itchy. My son has very sensitive skin so he has a bath with lukewarm water. There are some tips to keep the skin moist on the article and they are very useful to me. Thanks.
And shorter showers are better for the environment, too!
Shorter showers are better no matter what!
But I can’t stand not having my hot water in the morning (cold water just doesn’t do it at 5 in the morning) so at the end of my shower I turn on the cold water and do a cold rinse! Save the environment though, and do take shorter showers!