How to do dry and itchy skin in winter?

1, pay attention when taking a shower.

When taking a bath, you should choose a mild shower gel with weak acidity and avoid using alkaline soap with strong cleaning power, because even a neutral shower gel is alkaline relative to human skin. You should also avoid taking a bath with too hot water, and it is best to use a water temperature close to the body temperature (no more than 40 degrees Celsius).

Moreover, it is necessary to reduce the number of baths, shorten the bathing time, and avoid excessive loss of water and fat caused by heat. Don't rub hard when taking a bath, because overheated water and rubbing hard will wash away the protective layers such as sebum and keratin of the skin, which will easily hurt the skin and even cause local inflammation of the skin, making the nerves more excited and aggravating itching.

Step 2 Apply skin care products after bathing

After bathing, when the skin is not completely dry, immediately apply moisturizing body lotion, especially in the particularly dry parts such as limbs, which can help the skin restore the balance of water and oil, form a thin film on the skin, and prevent water evaporation. Moreover, because the pores are slightly open just after taking a shower, skin care products are easier to absorb and penetrate.

You should put on clothes and socks as soon as possible after applying skin care milk, which not only keeps warm, but also prevents the loss of skin moisture and sebum, and helps to strengthen the improvement effect on dry skin. After the skin is effectively moisturized, it can effectively reduce dryness and itching.

The texture of close-fitting clothes is very important.

Loose cotton should be used for close-fitting clothes, and it is best to absorb sweat and breathe freely to avoid skin itching caused by contact friction or hot sweat. At the same time, we should also avoid wearing sweaters, nylon and chemical fiber clothes to avoid irritating the skin and causing allergies.

Especially some people like to wear thermal underwear in cold weather, but be careful. Thermal underwear adopts composite sandwich material, that is, a fluffy chemical fiber is sandwiched between two layers of ordinary cotton cloth to keep warm.

This chemical fiber component is easy to generate static electricity when worn on the human body, and will generate a large number of cations around the human body, which will stimulate the skin, reduce the moisture of the human skin, increase dandruff, and also cause skin itching. Therefore, people with allergic skin should try to wear underwear that is not easy to generate static electricity, such as pure cotton and silk.

4. Don't ignore internal conditioning.

In addition to choosing suitable skin care products, internal conditioning is also very important. Pay attention to rest and adjust psychological pressure appropriately. In terms of diet regulation, we should pay more attention to drinking more water to replenish the water lost by the body and increase the water supply of the skin. Pay attention to balanced nutrition and eat more water-rich foods such as fresh fruits and vegetables, milk and soy milk.

You can also often eat sesame oil, soybeans, peanuts and other foods, which contain unsaturated fatty acids, such as linoleic acid. But if the human body lacks linoleic acid, the skin will become dry and the scales will become thicker.

When the human body lacks vitamin A, the skin will become dry, scales will appear, and even prickly papules will appear on the skin. So eat more foods rich in vitamin A, such as animal liver, carrots, rape, celery, eggs, cod liver oil and so on. Foods containing vitamin B6 are: wheat bran, potatoes, peas, Chinese cabbage, beef liver, bananas and so on. Foods containing vitamin B2 are: soybean, yeast, animal liver, mushrooms and so on.