With fall well and truly upon us, it’s time to turn your attention to your skin. Why? Because not only is the weather quickly changing, but your skin’s needs will be doing the same. The drop in temperature combined with low humidity, bitter weather patterns, and dry air from indoor heating systems plays havoc with the complexion. Unless you take the necessary steps now, you’ll be left dealing with severe dryness and dehydration come winter.
So, what should you be doing to make your skincare routine fall-friendly? Here are seven autumn skincare tips from Venofye that will ensure healthy-looking skin throughout the colder months!
1) Switch to a Cream Cleanser
Skin barrier function starts to slow down in the fall, and this continues to deteriorate until the worst of the winter weather passes. With your skin barrier playing a number of crucial roles in maintaining a healthy complexion, this is something that you need to preserve as much as possible. This means that not only should you be taking steps to leave your barrier feeling bolstered but you should also make sure that you aren’t unintentionally causing further damage to your barrier.
When it comes to barrier damage, cleansers are a big threat. Sure, a powerful foaming cleanser may have done the job in the summer months, when sebum production, along with skin barrier function, is at a high. However, once fall rolls around, you need to switch to a gentler cleanser that isn’t going to strip away every trace of sebum from your skin.
Cream cleansers, which are known for their moisturizing abilities, are particularly beneficial at this time of year. Look for a sulfate-free formula that also provides ingredients that will keep your skin barrier feeling strengthened, just like the Venofye Blossom Bee Clarifying Cream Cleanser. With the likes of lavender, calendula, moringa, aloe vera, and more, it will cleanse your skin while also treating it to an array of antioxidants and complexion-soothing compounds.
2) Tone Down the Exfoliation
With the wrong cleanser being capable of severely disrupting skin barrier function, it goes without saying that the wrong exfoliator can do the same, or worse. After all, exfoliation tackles your complexion on a slightly deeper level. This enables it to wreak even more damage on that skin barrier that you’re trying to support.
So, in the same way that you’ll be switching to a gentler cleanser, swap your summertime exfoliant for a milder version for the fall and winter months. Ideally, you want one that will hydrate and provide antioxidants at the same time, which is where the Venofye Blossom Bee Facial Peeling comes in. This exfoliant will gently slough off dead skin cells to reveal your complexion’s natural radiance, all without harming your skin’s protective barrier.
Of course, even with a gentle exfoliator like this one, exfoliating too often will still leave you with damaged skin that will only worsen once the winter sets in. With oil production dropping in the colder weather, you won’t need to exfoliate quite so often. Consider cutting back so that you’re now exfoliating a little less than you did in the midst of the summer season.
3) Focus on Moisture Retention
Fall signifies the arrival of dry air. This not only relates to the lack of humidity outdoors but also to the increasing dryness indoors. Indoor heating systems suck the moisture out of the air. Either way, being constantly surrounded by dry air speeds up transepidermal water loss. This essentially means that moisture evaporates out of your skin at a much faster rate. It doesn’t take long for this to lead to dehydration and dryness.
This is why fall is when you should be focusing on moisture retention. Get this correct from now and it will be much easier to keep your skin adequately hydrated in the winter too.
How can you encourage your skin to retain more moisture? By giving it an extra moisture barrier. While your skin’s natural barrier already provides this to some extent, the decline in barrier function at this time of year doesn’t help. Counter this by slathering your skin with a rich moisturizer. This will provide an additional physical barrier over your skin’s surface, helping to keep moisture locked in.
A moisturizer containing good occlusive ingredients, like the Venofye Blossom Bee Quenching Night Cream, will do this well. The shea butter in this moisturizer boasts humectant, occlusive, and emollient properties. This means that not only will it bind moisture to the skin and fill in those tiny gaps that occur in colder weather due to the reduction in sebum production, but it will also form a moisture-retaining seal over the surface of your skin.
4) Buffer Your Actives
The right active ingredients can be a game-changer for your complexion. Whether you’re turning to the likes of vitamin C, retinol, glycolic acid, or anything else, these ingredients have the power to bring about huge improvements in the look and feel of your skin.
Unfortunately, the skin can often struggle with these ingredients in the winter months. Why? Again, because of how skin barrier function slows down. This makes it harder for your skin to happily tolerate potent ingredients. Those same ingredients that you were using without issues in the summer can end up causing reactions in your skin in the winter.
Does this mean that you have to give up your actives during the colder months? Hopefully not. Instead, start buffering them in the fall. This simply means that instead of applying your active ingredients underneath your moisturizer, near to your skin, they’re applied over the top of a moisturizer. Doesn’t this hinder absorption? Yes, but that’s the point! By limiting the concentration of actives that your skin is exposed to, you’ll be sheltering your skin barrier from any sensitivities and reactions. You’ll still be able to soak up the benefits of those actives but without the associated irritation.
5) Continue to Protect Your Skin From the Sun
It’s easy to start to neglect sun protection once the summer is over. You’ll no longer be spending hours under the hot sun, soaking up those rays. Instead, once fall rolls around, chances are that you’ll be indoors more. Plus, the sun won’t feel quite as strong, which is why many choose to stop using sun protection at this time of year.
However, this is one of the biggest mistakes that you could make for your skin. The sun’s UV rays are present and harmful at all times. Sun damage can occur in the depths of winter, so it goes without saying that your skin is still very much at risk during the fall months too.
For this reason, keep up your sun protection efforts, even on days when it feels as though you don’t need to be wearing sunscreen. The sun’s UV rays can penetrate through both clouds and glass, meaning that spending a cloudy day indoors can still leave you susceptible to sun damage.
One way to make sun protection a little easier is by opting for an SPF moisturizer instead of a dedicated sunscreen. A product like the Venofye Orchard Bee Brilliance Cream SPF 30 can be applied as part of your morning skincare routine. It’s an excellent moisturizer that also happens to contain UV filters. Keep it with you throughout the day and reapply it every couple of hours to ensure maximum protection.
6) Repair the Look of Summertime Damage With Antioxidants
Even if you were diligent about wearing sunscreen in the summer, there’s a good chance that some of those UV rays were still able to wreak havoc on your skin cells. With the sun being the cause of up to 80% of the wrinkles and dark spots that develop on the face, even just a small amount of sun damage is enough to accelerate the skin aging process in a big way!
So, now that the worst of the summer sun is over, it’s time to turn your attention to the visible damage that those UV rays have caused. Fall is the perfect time to work on repairing the appearance of sun damage so that you can whip your complexion back into shape before the winter weather starts to take a toll.
How can you do this? With antioxidants. These powerful compounds are revered for how they neutralize the appearance of free radical damage, which is what occurs when UV rays infiltrate your skin. The best way to pamper your skin with antioxidants is through a serum, just like the Venofye Blossom Bee Vitamin C Serum. Not only does this formula contain vitamin C, one of the most-loved antioxidants around, but it’s also brimming with vitamin A, vitamin E, and several other skin-loving antioxidants. Add it to your fall skincare routine and your skin will look bright and even by winter.
7) Start Using a Humidifier
Many of the skin problems that people experience in the fall and winter can be attributed to dry air. Dehydration can lead to everything from flaking and cracking to excess grease and acne breakouts. With both indoor and outdoor air turning drier in the fall, it can be difficult to keep the skin’s hydration levels topped up.
This is where a humidifier can be a big help. These machines are designed to add moisture back into the air. Set one up in your home, preferably in the room in which you spend the most time, and your skin will enjoy some relief from the dry air everywhere else. With so many small, portable humidifiers now available, it’s easier than ever to find one that will suit your home without taking up too much space. Simply turn it on whenever you turn your indoor heating on and your skin will thank you!
Fall Skincare With Venofye
You’ll likely notice a few small changes occurring in your skin once summer transitions to fall. These are signs that you need to start adapting your skincare routine to the seasons, and those signs shouldn’t be ignored. If you want your skin to look smooth, bright, and dewy throughout the winter months, start implementing the fall skincare tips that we’ve shared above as soon as possible!
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