Come about November each year, I notice my skin, especially on my face, gets really dry. By mid-December, it’s so dry that it’s flaking. I’m habituatally consistent in making sure to use my standard moisturizer at morning and at night. But come the winter time, I found myself year after year, peeling off dry skin from my face and slathering on hand moisturizer on my face in an attempt to quell the flaky skin.

This year, I decided that I needed to find a better solution. Using my standard moisturizer that I use the rest of the year just wasn’t going to cut it during the dry winter months. There had to be a better way to take care of my skin. After visiting with my dermatologist and my aesthistician, I’ve found a combination of moisture warriors that work for me and don’t cause my break-out prone skin to break-out.

First, I stepped up my serums. I use a lot of different serums, but not one for moisture. And in the winter, my skin needs an extra boost of oil and moisture. I found this amazing one from Amazon that has been HONEY (pun intended) for my face. After cleansing my face, I put this serum on and let it soak in for a minute before adding other products. Depending on how my skin feels, sometimes it’s just a nighttime addition, but if my face is feeling particularly dry, I throw it on in the morning too when I wake up before going to my work-out class.

It’s so good!

The next thing that both my derm & aesthetician said was that I needed to up my nighttime moisturizer to a turbo-burst of moisture. Instead of using my Cetaphil moisturizer at night, I started regularly using a moisturizing mask and leaving it on all night to let it really soak in. My favorite moisturizer punch at nighttime is the Summer Fridays Jet Lag Mask.

Finally, and this may be the most obvious item of all, I started sleeping with a humidifier on at night next to our bed. We have a humidifier on our furnace that is theoretically supposed to help with the moisture in the overall house during the winter, but being able to have the additional humidity right by our bed, has made a huge difference. I purchased this one from Amazon. This one let’s you set it to regulate to specific humidity level, and then it will stop and hold it constant throughout the night, so you don’t wake up feeling like you woke up in the middle of the jungle. 😊 Bonus: it has a slot to use essential oils with the mist, if you like to diffuse some lavender for sleep!