How to Beat the Winter Skin Blahs

Cold temperatures and dry indoor heat create an environment that compromises the skin’s barrier, leading to moisture loss, surface roughness, and sensitivity. A well-designed winter routine can reinforce barrier function and help keep skin looking smooth, balanced, and healthy. Here are the strategies that make the biggest difference.

A moisturizer can provide temporary relief from the dryness brought on by winter weather, but meaningful hydration depends on more than topical moisture alone. By strengthening barrier function, you help the skin better retain hydration and stay resilient throughout the season.

Ingredients like ceramide-boosting niacinamide, nourishing fatty acids including rose hip oil and grape seed oil, soothing oat extracts, anti-inflammatory green tea extract and witch hazel, and redness-reducing, skin plumping peptides are among the skin soothers you should be reaching for this winter.

Air that is too dry will continue to remove the moisture from your skin as fast as you can add it. Running a humidifier in your home and office, if possible, can help restore a healthy moisture balance to your skin.

In winter, you may be tempted to increase the water temperature of your showers and baths to help you warm up, but very hot water breaks down the lipid barriers in your skin, which can remove moisture instead of adding it. Turn down the tap and watch the clock. A shorter shower or bath with warm, rather than hot, water is much healthier for the skin's moisture level than a long, hot soak.

For rough or uneven areas anywhere on the body—heels, elbows, arms, or back—Vivant’s Mandelic Exfoliating Cleanser offers gentle, full-body surface refinement. The mandelic acid formula helps lift away buildup while nourishing components leave skin feeling smoother and more conditioned from head to toe.

Wet gloves and socks may irritate skin and make it itchy, or even trigger an eczema flare-up. Replace moisture with Allantoin Sedating & Hydrating Lotion. If you need to wash your hands often during the day, try using Vivant’s Cleansing Milk as a hand soap to avoid stripping moisture from the skin with harsh hand soaps.

Dry skin treatment is more than just finding the right moisturizer for winter. Vivant’s skin hydrating and protection products are a clinic in how to treat dry skin and more. Browse the collection to find the perfect products that will keep your skin feeling fresh and beautiful during the colder months, and year round.