Published: December 15, 2024
The holiday season can be stressful enough without having to deal with skin problems too. Unfortunately, between the harsh winter weather and those seasonal festivities, your skin can really take a dive, making that holiday glow seem impossible to achieve.
The good news? There are ways to keep your skin looking radiant and healthy throughout the holiday season, without much extra effort or stress required on your part. How? Keep reading as CBGärdN shares some top tips!
Keep it Simple If You’re Busy
The holiday season can often be pretty hectic, hence the stress that tends to come along with it! Between last minute shopping sprees, late night parties, and all of those daytime events, finding the time to carry out your regular 10-step skincare routine can seem daunting.
Instead of skipping skincare altogether, develop a simplified version of your skincare routine – one that you can turn to when you don’t have the time or energy for all of the steps that you usually follow.
How simplified can a skincare routine be? In the evenings, there are only two products that you really need. The first is a cleanser. Since it’s winter, pick a gentle one, just like the CB Facial Cleanser. If you want your skin to look its best, you need to keep your skin barrier feeling bolstered during this harsh time of year. An overly potent cleanse will only damage that precious barrier.
Then, all you need to do is follow up with a moisturizer. Since you’re skipping the serum step/s of your routine, try to use a moisturizer that offers up a few different benefits.
The CB Göld Velvet Silk Crème, which can be found in the CBGärdN CB Göld Collection, would be a great choice. Thanks to sodium hyaluronate, algae extract, and hemp seed oil, it’s extremely hydrating. It’s also loaded with antioxidants from the likes of green tea, chamomile, and grape stem cell extracts. These will fight the appearance of aging, keeping your skin looking youthful. Better yet, this cream also contains several ingredients that will leave your skin barrier feeling thicker and stronger, resulting in a healthier-looking complexion overall.
Hydration is Everything
One of the biggest battles that your skin faces every winter is dehydration. It’s so easy for this to occur due to how dry the air around you is. The lack of humidity means that transepidermal water loss, which is when your skin loses moisture to evaporation, speeds up – the dry air essentially sucks the moisture out of your skin.
Not only does dehydration cause the skin to look dull and deflated but it can lead to other problems too. Everything from flaking and sensitivities to excess oiliness and breakouts can be caused by dehydration, which will only leave you feeling even more stressed out!
So, how can you keep your skin hydrated throughout the holiday season?
Start by applying a hydrating toner once you’re done cleansing, just like the CBGärdN CB Facial Toner. It contains sodium hyaluronate – one of the best hydrating ingredients around!
Then, follow up with one or two hydrating serums. The CB Replenishing Serum from CBGärdN would be a fantastic choice. Once again, you’ll find sodium hyaluronate in this formula, along with peptides, algae extract, and glycerin. All of these ingredients are humectants, meaning that they bind moisture to the skin to provide fast hydration.
Then, top everything off with a hydrating face cream, such as the CB Phyto Satin Finish Cream. This one hydrates with a blend of soluble collagen, algae extract, and sodium hyaluronate. Meanwhile, the botanical extracts in this moisturizer provide an array of antioxidants.
Be Mindful If Double Cleansing
The harsh winter weather coupled with all of those unhealthy holiday feasts you’ll be indulging in means that the skin can often feel quite congested at this time of year. As a result, many choose to give double cleansing a try in the winter.
This technique involves cleansing your face twice instead of once. The first cleanse is with an oil-based cleanser, which is then followed by a water-based cleanser. The point of this is to give the skin a much more thorough cleanse, and it really does work well!
While that may be the case, you need to be extra mindful about double cleansing in the winter. Why? Because your skin doesn’t produce as much sebum at this time of year. Cleansing will remove some of the little sebum it has, and double cleansing does this even more so. Take away too much sebum and you’ll interfere with skin barrier function, which will then leave you with a number of issues to deal with!
How can you double cleanse safely? Start by opting for gentle cleansers that don’t contain sulfates, such as the CB Silk Facial Foaming Purifier. When double cleansing, you don’t want to use any harsh formulas, especially in the winter!
You should also be careful not to double cleanse too often. This isn’t a technique that you should be following daily. Instead, save it for when your skin feels particularly grimy or if you’ve been wearing heavy makeup.
SPF Still Matters
Sun protection is something that people often stop thinking about once fall turns to winter. After all, with the heat of the sun no longer feeling so strong, surely the sun isn’t able to cause any damage?
Unfortunately, this isn’t true. Although UV rays aren’t usually as powerful in the winter as they are in the summer, they’re still around and are still harming your skin. The fact that they can penetrate through clouds and fog means that your skin is vulnerable on even a dull winter’s day too. If it snows, your risk of sun damage increases further. The snow reflects up to 80% of UV light, which almost doubles your UV exposure.
If you often simply forget about sunscreen in the winter, consider adding an SPF moisturizer to your morning skincare routine. Although this won’t protect you all day, it will still shield your skin for a few hours. Look for a formula that’s rich enough to provide enough moisture to thirsty skin in the winter.
For this, we’d recommend the CBGärdN CB Multi-Active Moisturizer With SPF 30. In addition to containing UV filters, it also boasts aloe vera to hydrate and soothe your complexion, vitamin E to moisturize your skin and keep your skin barrier feeling supported, and a number of antioxidants to ensure that your skin looks revitalized.
Pile on the Antioxidants
We’ve mentioned antioxidants a few times now, and for good reason. These powerful compounds are capable of repairing the appearance of free radical damage. This takes on a variety of forms, from wrinkles to dark spots to sagging skin. Keep your skin saturated with antioxidants and you’ll be able to maintain a healthy and youthful complexion for longer.
This becomes even more important during the holiday season when your skin is already facing various problems. Giving your skin plenty of antioxidants will ensure that your skin cells feel capable of functioning to their full potential.
So, which antioxidants should you be including in your holiday skincare routine? Vitamin C is a key ingredient. This antioxidant is loved for its wide range of effects on the skin. It counters the appearance of aging, lightens the look of dark spots, gives loose skin a tighter and firmer finish, helps to improve skin hydration levels, and more! This single antioxidant can help with your complexion in so many ways.
This is why we created the CBGärdN CB Illuminating Vita C Serum. This formula is dedicated to the amazing properties of vitamin C. It contains 3-O-ethyl ascorbic acid, which is a pure yet stable form of the ingredient. Meanwhile, nettle leaf extract backs up the vitamin C with a host of other antioxidants.
Know How to Counter the Effects of a Late Night
The holiday season usually means plenty of late nights. This can take a toll on your skin, as well as your mental health, making it hardly surprising if you end up feeling more stressed than usual!
While skincare won’t help you to catch up on that lost sleep, it can be a great way to counter the visible effects of a late night…so long as you turn to the right products.
If your schedule is jam-packed with holiday parties, the CB Eye Serum Concentrate is a product definitely worth investing in. This eye serum will tackle the appearance of dark circles and puffy bags – common occurrences when sleep deprivation takes hold. Thanks to its blend of peptides and antioxidants, it will quickly have your eye area looking smoother and brighter.
The Pure Soothing Eye Jelly Masks Limited Edition can work wonders on puffy-looking eyes too. These eye patches contain some truly impressive ingredients, including sodium hyaluronate and a long list of potent plant extracts. Apply them to your under-eyes for 10-15 minutes and your skin will immediately look more luminescent.
The CB Midnight Melting Mask from CBGärdN would also be a good call if your skin needs some extra TLC. This is a leave-on mask, making it convenient to use during all of your festivities. This mask contains an impressive array of antioxidants – many of them coming from superfood extracts. Acai, goji, pomegranate, noni, and more can all be found in this formula, along with vitamins, peptides, sodium hyaluronate, and squalane. It will hydrate your skin while you sleep while also leaving it feeling rejuvenated.
Holiday Skincare With CBGärdN
The holiday season can be busy and hectic in a way that plays havoc with the skin. Couple this with the harsh winter weather that’s commonly experienced at this time of year and it’s hardly surprising that people often feel overwhelmed and stressed by the skin concerns that they face. The good news is that it’s often easier than you’d imagine to achieve and maintain a radiant festive glow, and the tips that we’ve shared above are a great place to start!
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