Question of the Day: Winter Skin Relief Day

[the_siobhan]

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.

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.

I have a "sports" mask that was originally designed for city cyclists dealing with smog, but it never really fit right - in order to keep it snug around my chin it had to be tight enough that it squeezed my nose shut so I had to breathe solely through my mouth.

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.]

Comments

[dissectionist]

I’ve gotten my entire family into [breathe] masks. I fucking love them. And the fact that they don’t fog up my glasses confirms to me that there’s no leak happening around the nose.

[greylock]

There's really a day for this?
I feel like I asked that for all of these days, but of course there's a day for everything,

I ordered this one and used it today for the first time. I freakin' love it.

It's a weird looking mask, but I love the fact they can be stylised.

It looks like they will ship to Australia, but not the US? That seems odd.

I might look into grabbing one at home point. It looks like with five filters I'd get a long life out of it.

[jo]

I was looking at the [breathe] mask because a few people on Twitter were recommending them, but I can't get over how bizarre they look and I have serious doubts about me actually venturing out of the house wearing one. Which is stupid, I know, but I just look at all of the photos people have submitted of themselves wearing one and they look so weird. I just can't. Maybe if I had to fly regularly, I would definitely get one to wear on the plane, but for day to day stuff, I'll stick with my N95s.

[the_siobhan]

My years of hanging around with cybergoths has probably skewed my sense of aesthetics. I think they look neat.

[the_siobhan]

FDA restrictions, according to their twitter.

[greylock]

Thanks.

[greylock]

Damn, I fell down a Twitter hole while searching for their Twitter.
The CEO's feed is quite alarming.

[the_siobhan]

This is their official twitter

https://twitter.com/Prescientx1

What's with the CEO?

[greylock]

Yes, saw that.
The CEO posts a lot of studies on how SHOCKING: COVID ain't over.

Not news to us, I am sure.

[greylock]

I think they look weird, but I like the fact you can customise them.
And people look at you strange if you wear any mask these days.

[nimrodiel]

That mask looks amazingly comfortable. It's too bad the FDA makes it harder for us US folks to buy one.