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8 – Winter Skin Relief Day: What is the best skin moisturizer you've tried? Do you use different moisturizers for your face and body? Other than moisturizers, do you have any other tips for keeping your skin feeling and looking healthy during the winter months?
There's really a day for this?
I have intensely thin dry skin - like peeling off and constantly painful levels of dry skin. Winter is torture, I used to regularly have blood in my boots in the winter. BC got me into getting regular pedicures, which helped a lot. And I have lotion in every room of my house, like every time I walk past a flat surface I grab a squirt of something for my hands as a matter of course.
What has actually made the biggest difference is starting to take hormones. I was warned that acne was an almost universal side effect. I have had zero acne, but my skin feels a lot stronger and healthier.
And I use just your bog standard moisturizers. I don't think spending a lot on skin creams makes a difference. My mother started giving me gifts of wrinkle cream before I was 40, and I always thought it was hilarious. (I mean I used them, because free skin cream, but I don't think they made any difference in how fast I'm getting wrinkles.)
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Fridays is usually when I visit the Old Man. It's a straight shot on one streetcar, but it's through the downtown core so with traffic and construction it takes just over an hour each way. Only last week it took over two, because there was not one but two medical emergencies that meant evacuation of the streetcar and walking to the next intersection.
The [breathe] mask, otoh, has a soft skirt around the edge that form fits to my face so it doesn't care how big my nose is. (It feels like rubber, but it's very light so probably plastic) It feels so light I kept compulsively checking the seal, but I never felt a leak. And because the front panel sits quite far away from my face, the condensation that forms inside a mask in the winter never made me feel slimy the way disposables do after a couple of hours. Brilliant. I highly recommend it.
[ETA: Apparently they can't ship to the US, so if any American folks want to order one, hit me up and I'll help you out.]
There's really a day for this?
I have intensely thin dry skin - like peeling off and constantly painful levels of dry skin. Winter is torture, I used to regularly have blood in my boots in the winter. BC got me into getting regular pedicures, which helped a lot. And I have lotion in every room of my house, like every time I walk past a flat surface I grab a squirt of something for my hands as a matter of course.
What has actually made the biggest difference is starting to take hormones. I was warned that acne was an almost universal side effect. I have had zero acne, but my skin feels a lot stronger and healthier.
And I use just your bog standard moisturizers. I don't think spending a lot on skin creams makes a difference. My mother started giving me gifts of wrinkle cream before I was 40, and I always thought it was hilarious. (I mean I used them, because free skin cream, but I don't think they made any difference in how fast I'm getting wrinkles.)
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Fridays is usually when I visit the Old Man. It's a straight shot on one streetcar, but it's through the downtown core so with traffic and construction it takes just over an hour each way. Only last week it took over two, because there was not one but two medical emergencies that meant evacuation of the streetcar and walking to the next intersection.
And then today on the way home there was a fight. It didn't last long, but you could see how jumpy everybody got as soon as the shouting started.
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One of the things on my to-do list was to get a better re-usable mask. I ordered this one and used it today for the first time. I freakin' love it.
The [breathe] mask, otoh, has a soft skirt around the edge that form fits to my face so it doesn't care how big my nose is. (It feels like rubber, but it's very light so probably plastic) It feels so light I kept compulsively checking the seal, but I never felt a leak. And because the front panel sits quite far away from my face, the condensation that forms inside a mask in the winter never made me feel slimy the way disposables do after a couple of hours. Brilliant. I highly recommend it.
[ETA: Apparently they can't ship to the US, so if any American folks want to order one, hit me up and I'll help you out.]