By Tia Cristy

Around the winter time the cold brisk air can be very drying to skin, add the moisture from your mouth and the hot air coming from your breath can cause an unseen condensation around your mouth. This is a terrible combo for the suffers; dry and chapped around the lips and at the corners of the mouth. not only is it sad to see your skin flaking but, it can be quite painful too. Let’s say you’ve already tried a moisturizer and it didn’t work. You then tried olive oil and that helped heal a bit but you still need a little more moisture.

Here’s a tip in action for you. Get an avocado, cut it open and remove the green stuff. Mash it up and add a little bit of olive oil to the mix. Pat some warm water on the dry area, don’t dry. Apply the mixture on the area and let sit for 20 minutes. Put the unused mixture in the refrigerator for next time.

After the 20 minutes rinse off with water only. lightly pat dry with a soft cloth or tissue. If skin starts to feel tight again apply moisturizer or olive oil (doesn’t burn the skin) to skin and let soak in completely. You can repeat this process once a day several times a week till skin heals. The avocado penetrates through several layers of skin appose to other things that only go a couple layers deep.

If the skin burns or is cracked and broken, using an antibiotic cream can prevent infection. Call your doctor if skin becomes red, swollen or broken from being chapped, you may need medical assistance for healing skin.

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By Tia Cristy

By Tia Cristy

Sunblock is still very important, even in colder temperatures. Just like a cloudy day, still allows those harmful rays to get through to you, the cold doesn’t have protection against the sun either.

But, 1 bonus of the cold is to not stay out too long, so if it’s only 10 minutes in the sun, skip the sunblock. Yes, I said, skip it. It takes 10 minutes in the sun without sun block, to get the proper daily amount of Vitamin D from the sun.

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By Tia Cristy

By Tia Cristy

Skin tends to dry out during the colder months, due to the cold snaps and the heated cars and buildings. The best way to adapt to the changing season is, starting from the inside, if you can. Adding a handful of almonds into a daily diet can provide natural oil production to moisturize your skin and hair. And, help alleviate the brash of winter.

Be sure that you don’t have a nut allergy, before adding nuts into your diet. If you find you have an allergic reaction seek immediate emergency and call your doctor.

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By Tia Cristy

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By Tia Cristy

Recap: How to get out an ingrown hair after shaving, tweezing or waxing.

Problem:

I’ve
never had a problem with ingrown hairs up until now! I don’t know if my skin has changed or it’s just the season changing. Every time I shave or
pluck I get one. Do I need to wax instead? How do you make them go away? Anna, 30

Tip from Tia:

Ingrown
hairs…a problem that a large population has encountered if they ever
picked up a razor, tweezers or had even waxed some follicles. Those that
haven’t, consider yourself lucky. Ingrown hairs can be painful, itchy, swollen,
discolored and even run the risk of scaring. So how can you deal with the pesky
ingrown first before calling a professional?  This one is detailed so bare with me.

First, let’s understand some reasons why this happens. Skin and weather changes can be one cause like you asked. Skin
becomes drier with age, and with winter. When the skin is dry, the pores
try to hold any moisture it can and if a follicle gets trapped as a
result, an ingrown can happen. Just another reason to remember to moisturize your skin. In a lot of ingrown cases the razor is to blame, reason being, blade is too dull. The blade clips the hair crooked and irritates the skin to
plump up causing the remainder of the hair to go back under the skin and loop.
With tweezing and waxing, a somewhat similar thing can happen, but the loop is
from the root not being fully extracted and the new growth can loop. Of course
this is not the correct way hair should grow, so the skin becomes irritated and
all those side effects can happen.

First thing is first, if the area is infected that will need
to be taken care of first. If the area is painful, red and swollen, clean with an
antiseptic, then, apply an antibacterial cream. Once the infection is gone or
the area is healthy to begin with, we need to get the follicle to help push itself
out. Salt is a great extractor for the body. It withdraws many foreign objects
from the body when used properly. The best way to apply this salt soak is with
a cloth or piece of gauze saturated with warm water. Wet the patch and wring out excess water. Apply salt directly to the
cloth or gauze then apply the salt soak patch to the ingrown area. Leave on for
10 to 20 minutes. Pending on skin type sensitivity. Use a band-aid or tape to hold in place if you need too. Remove patch and lightly
scrub in circular motions. This process will gently break the skin, in the safest way possible. This will help grab the loop to become free. If the
hair does not come free, this process may take several attempts over a period
of days even weeks depending on how deep it is. Don’t pick, that can cause scaring and infection. After scrubbing gently, remove excess with
warm water and apply an antibacterial cream to the area, use a band-aid if
needed.

If salt is too harsh for you; granulated sugar has been recommended to
have the same benefits as salt, without being as crude. Remember this isn’t always an instant fix for a nasty
ingrown, it may take time. But, if the area gets infected or if the hair is not
coming to the surface, you may need to seek professional help.

Tia, and TipsfromTia.com  is trying to keep you looking good and
feeling good, from the inside out. If you’ve got a problem or a tip email me!

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By Tia Cristy

By Tia Cristy

It’s that special time of year, when the skin on your body and face start to change up again. Whether it’s getting dry or oily, it just maybe time to change up the skin care regimen.

Sensitive skin, may feel like it’s past the point of any help at all with over drying, then becoming super oily and breakout may try to follow.

A great way to prevent the roller coaster of skin conditions, is before the indoor heat and the outside chill take it’s toll, try a deep natural moisturizer to help the balance.

Using a simple Almond oil, Jojoba oil or Olive oil as a 20 minute treatment can absorb down into layers, and restore balance. Doing this early in the season can reduce the battle time. Yet, sometimes it has to be done several times, before everything is back in harmony.

If your skin usually cracks and causes sores, from being dry or it excessively becomes oily, you may want to contact your doctor to see what kind of treatment can help you.
 
Tia, and TipsfromTia.com  is trying to keep you looking good and
feeling good, from the inside out. If you’ve got a problem or a tip email me!

By Tia Cristy