Your showers are way too hot
Especially in the wintertime, when the weather outside is freezing cold, it feels amazing to warm up in a super-hot shower. But doing so only dries out your skin more. ‘Hot water strips the natural oils from your skin, leaving it dry and vulnerable to cracking, especially in the winter,’ says Dendy Engelman, MD, a dermatologist at Manhattan Dermatology and Cosmetic Surgery in New York City. ‘I believe that it’s important to ‘soak and grease,’ which means spend at least 20 minutes in a lukewarm shower or bath and then immediately apply moisturizer to the skin after bathing.’
