As a graduate teaching assistant who earn just enough cash to pay for basic dues, I really concern with how much money to spend for any single stuff I purchase. I don’t say that I am really good at money management because I do like to do shopping for whatever reason. What I want to say to you is that how to minimize your spending on moisturizer especially on winter where most of tropical girls skin is not accustom to the dryness that suddenly come at that time. I don’t know if it will work or not for the other race, but it works on me as a tropical girl who suddenly move to four season country.
As a person who used to live in humid tropical country, I never experienced a dramatically change of humidity in winter season. I bet most of international students who come from tropical places have the same experience too. When the weather start to reach under 20 F, suddenly your skin become so dry and shriveled although you’ve put lots of your moisturizer already. Some people would suggest me to buy a winter moisturizer which usually lots more expensive than mine to make my skin back to normal. However, I also have a problem of skin prone and acne which need to be considered too. Acne series usually more expensive too and make my skin dryer in the winter. Thus, I don’t use it quite often. In short, I need to find something to avoid over dryness in my skin on winter because I don’t want to look miserable in front of people. Here is some product that I found quite help me to figure out my dryness and my acne on winter.
1. Coconut Oil
Most of us have already known that coconut oil is the secret of lots of people to keep them to look younger than they really are. I don’t quite understand what substances on it to avoid anti-aging and stuff but I found this magic oil really moisturize my skin on winter.
What I usually do with this is for my body cream and my face cleaner. Instead of using body butter at night, I usually use coconut oil and apply it on my body including hand and feet and sometime my hair too. It is indeed a bit greasy, thus I used a long sock to cover my feet and head cover if I apply it on my hair. Since I am a typical person who take a shower every morning, I usually just rinse my body with water and use soap for my body only, so that the coconut oil still moisturize my feet and hand.
Instead of using my acne facial wash in winter, I prefer to use coconut oil in the evening to clean my face. I usually used my acne facial wash in the morning just to avoid the greasy feeling in my face. I found that coconut oil works really well to clean the dirt in my face while in the same time it moisturize my face too.
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2. Bath oil
I don’t use it anymore since I move to Missoula just because I find my skin is quite adapt with the dry weather in the winter. However, I found this product was really useful in my first severe winter. I bought it about 10 bucks and last for a year which quite worth it. It was applied every time after showering when my skin still dumb only about one or two drops for the whole body. After that I would apply my daily body lotion which usually make me apply it less then without using the oil. So, it will make my body lotion last longer than usual.
By using bath oil, I never feel like my skin shriveled or over dry, and I never found my cuticle dry too. I started to use this bath oil in the beginning of fall, so my skin would quite moisturized before facing the severe winter. At that time I hadn’t found coconut oil so I used body butter quite a lot.
When it started summer, I stopped using bath oil just because my skin is basically oily, so in the summer my skin tone will back to normal. However, if your basic skin tone is dry, I think it will be good for you to use it all the year so your 10 bucks oil will be worth a year moisturizer.