BEAUTY
COLD comfort
Is your face feeling dry? As the seasons start to shift, here’s how to deeply hydrate your skin
At this time of year, your skin finds it harder to hold on to moisture. A drop in humidity can strip away up to 25% of it, and winter winds and central heating steal moisture, too, leading to tightness, sensitivity, chapped skin or flaking.
One of London’s most in-demand facialists, Katharine Mackenzie Paterson (kmpskin.com), says that seasonal dryness affects all skin types, telling us: “Winter really affects moisture levels. The external climate is one of the biggest contributing factors to the topical elasticity of skin.”