Top 4 Winter Skin Care Tips

Once the weather gets colder, your skin begins getting tight, dry, dull, irritated and itchy. In summer humidity in air provides moisturizer to your skin but in winter cold winds suck the moisture from the air and lack of nourishing vitamins causes great skin related problems. Those who are living in colder places have to face harsh winter wind which forces them to imprison themselves into their houses for longer periods. The low humidity level in the air, essential to keep your skin healthy, shinny and fresh, sucks the natural oils which is resulted into dehydration.

When you go outside you have to face harsh weather and when you come inside your house, you have to stay near to the heating points and both of these conditions demand you to take extra care of your skin. If you follow these top 4 winter skin care tips, you can easily spend your winter days with no problems at all.

Winter Skin Care Tips # 1 - Use of Humidifier

If you use humidifier, it will help you increase the level of moisture into the air which will result in less drier skin. Use humidifier in your bedroom at night to reduce the dryness and heating effects. But before using humidifier, it is important for you to clearly understand the instructions given in the booklet.

Winter Skin Care Tips # 2 - Bath with Lukewarm Water

No doubt taking hot bath or shower in winter days seems to be quite romantic and relaxing but something that you should know about hot bath is that the one who prefers to stay in a bathtub full of hot water or take shower for more than the time he needs to wash and clean himself is more prone to develop skin dryness, irritation & other winter allergies. However, there is a natural remedy which can provide your skin with protection from hot bathing side effects. Mixing 1-2 cups of baking soda in the water will greatly help you in battling with skin dryness.

Winter Skin Care Tips # 3 - Sufficient Consumption of Water
You are having cold and breezy winter days and you don't often feel thirsty but it does not mean that you should reduce the amount of drinking water in your daily life. If you do so, you are going to dehydrate your body as well as skin. Water is imperative for your body and drinking sufficient amount of water every day will keep your skin healthy and shinny.
Winter Skin Care Tips # 4 - Taking Care of Hands & Feet
Hands and feet are the most ignoring body organs which are often left uncovered recklessly on mercy of winter winds and when you wash them with cold water during the day, it makes them even drier. You should know that they also need to be taken care as much as other parts of your body need. Whenever you wash your hands and feet during the day, cover them with gloves and socks after applying moisturizer or lotion on them.

By Sania M Marvis

Top 40 Health Quotations

1. "Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year." -- Franklin P. Adams
2. "He who has health, has hope. And he who has hope, has everything." -- Arabian Proverb
3. "To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth." -- Richard Baker
4. "There's lots of people who spend so much time watching their health, they haven't got time to enjoy it." -- Josh Billings
5. "Health has its science, as well as disease. " --Elizabeth Blackwell
6. "Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. " --Erma Bombeck
7. "Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do practice? " --George Carlin
8. "The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health. " --Charles Caleb Colton
9. "As I see it every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself." --Adelle Davis
10. "Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady." --Francois de La Rochefoucauld
11. "You can set yourself up to be sick, or you can choose to stay well." -- Wayne Dyer
12. "Give me health and a day and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." --Ralph Waldo Emerson
13. "The first wealth is health." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
14. "Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise." -- Benjamin Franklin
15. "Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing." --Redd Foxx
16. "Health is not valued till sickness comes." --Dr. Thomas Fuller
17. "A Hospital is no place to be sick." --Samuel Goldwyn
18. "Health is not simply the absence of sickness." --Hannah Green
19. "Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos - the trees, the clouds, everything." --Thich Nhat Hanh
20. "A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses." --Hippocrates
21. "The groundwork of all happiness is health." -- Leigh Hunt
22. "The oneness of mind and body holds the secret of illness and health. " --Arnold Hutschnecker
23. "Health is worth more than learning." --Thomas Jefferson
24. "We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique." -- Benjamin Jowett
25. "One out of 4 people in this country is mentally imbalanced. Think of your 3 closest friends-if they seem okay, then you're the one." --Ann Landers
26. "To insure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life." -- William Londen
27. "It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like." --Jackie Mason
28. "Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away." --Robert Orben
29. "What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease." --George Dennison Prentice
30. "The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results." -- Anthony Robbins
31. "Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live." -- Jim Rohn
32. "Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory." --Albert Schweitzer
33. "A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools." -- Spanish Proverb
34. "People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy." -- Laurence Sterne
35. "Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and Spring. " --Henry David Thoreau
36. "Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint." --Mark Twain
37. "The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease." --François Voltaire
38. "Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it." -- Unknown
39. "Time And health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted." -- Denis Waitley
40. "Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can't buy." --Izaak Walton

Danielle Hollister