Tips On Dry Skin Care: Banish That Itchy Patch!

Are you frustrated with your current dry skin care routine? Ever wondered if you are allergic to something in your creams?

Sometimes even the most expensive creams and lotions contain ingredients that cause dry itchy skin. Usually it’s the fragrances but there are other substances that can cause you to break out in irritated patches.

Fragrances are used by most manufacturers to mask the smell from the product. Most of the chemicals that go into run-of-the-mill moisturizers don’t smell at all nice so perfumes get shovelled into the product to make it smell good.

But a good quality product doesn’t need to use chemical fragrances. Instead, it will contain pure, natural ingredients that have no offensive odor in the first place.

Your first step if you have itchy patches is to go fragrance-free with your moisturizers.

Next, consider the use of alcohols in your cream. You’ll often see them on the label listed as one of these: ethanol, ethyl alcohol, methanol, benzyl alcohol, isopropyl alcohol and SD alcohol.

These are very drying and irritating ingredients, and they can strip away the protective mantle of your skin, leaving you vulnerable to bacteria and viruses. Instead, make sure you choose a moisturizer that includes only stearyl and cetearyl alcohol. These are waxes and are not related to the other alcohols listed here.

Mineral oil is another substance to avoid. It will often appear under the names liquid paraffin, paraffin wax or petrolatum. It’s a petroleum-based product intended to coat the face to keep in moisture. Unfortunately, it also strips away natural protective oils, causing chapping and dryness. But it’s a cheap ingredient so it’s popular with many manufacturers.

If you’re serious about controlling that red, irritated skin, look out for an unusual ingredient called Phytessence Wakame. This strange-sounding substance is an antioxidant derived from Japanese sea algae. It’s rich in a number of important nutrients, including calcium, iron and potassium, but it also contains B-group vitamins, which soothe inflammation.

So, go ahead and ditch those underperforming, irritating dry skin care products you’re suffering with and try something new today!

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