Tips from a dermatologist to avoid drying out your skin when you shower: Femme Actuelle Le MAG

To combat dry skin, it is essential to choose hygiene products adapted to your skin, with a shower gel or soap enriched with glycerin, vegetable oils or even ceramides so that the skin is protected from external aggressions thanks to to a reinforced skin barrier. When you get out of the shower, it is also important to nourish the epidermis with a body treatment that softens the skin and gives it suppleness.

How to keep skin well hydrated according to a dermatologist

In a video published on Tik Tok, dermatologist Dr Mamina Turegano gives 5 tips for taking care of dry skin. The first recommendation? “The shower should last a minimum of time and you should avoid water that is too hot” indicates the skin specialist. “Aim for warm to warm temperatures. I know it’s not fun, but it’s definitely better for your skin.”. Indeed, water, if it is too hot, risks weakening the hydrolipidic film of the skin and therefore sensitizing and drying it out.

Second tip: “make sure you apply your moisturizer on damp skin, so just after taking a shower”, this allows better penetration of care. She also recommends choosing “a hydrating body treatment with a creamy, rich base, rather than a light lotion.”

Dry skin: tips to avoid weakening it in the shower

She also specifies that it is not necessary to wash the backs of your hands with soap every time, explaining that unlike the palms, the backs of the hands are not directly in contact with the objects that they we touch or take. Dr Mamina also adds that it is not necessarily useful to apply soap everywhere during the shower, especially “on areas of your body that don’t get dirty so quickly like your back or legs. Obviously you need to wash these areas if you have sweated or gotten dirty” However, the expert nuanced this. In fact, the cleansing agents in soap or shower gel can dry out the epidermis.