Concerned about standing under the mistletoe with chapped lips and cracked skin? Fearless Wellness Dr. Deb Kiley offers some simple advice for keeping your largest organ healthy in cold weather.
Fearless Wellness Dr. Deb Kiley: “The wind and the cold weather are going to dry out your skin and cause damage which will make it age, but it also can cause cracking which doesn’t feel good.”
Kiley suggests drinking water before you are thirsty, as you actually lose more water in winter cold than you do in the summer heat.
Fearless Wellness Dr. Deb Kiley: “We can see our breath in the winter, and that breath that you see going out is water vapor that you are losing from your body, so you need to replace that.”
Besides hydrating with water, Kiley recommends adding to your outer layer with rich emollient creams instead of lotions. She suggests rubbing organic coconut oil on hands at night, then covering them with cotton gloves so it doesn’t leave a greasy transfer on your bedding.
To girlie for you? Kiley shrugs and says that the old reliable cure is perfectly acceptable.
Fearless Wellness Dr. Deb Kiley: “Interesting, the Environmental Working Group rates petroleum jelly as a one, which is low hazard. Putting petroleum products on my skin is not my first choice, but it is not a bad choice, and it is good and thick. So if you are going out in the big wind at a low temperature then it can be protective.”
Kiley adds that we should keep winter showers warm not hot, and be sure to apply moisturizer to damp skin.
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