Dr. Natasha Cook

I'm a firm believer that we shouldn't piggyback

people into skin types per se because our skin type is constantly changing with our environment.

For example, if we're in the snowy mountains in winter where we've got low humidity, we'll draw moisture out of the skin and our skin type becomes drier.

If we're hanging out in Singapore and it's highly humidity and there's more moisture in the environment, which then feeds back into the skin, we're going to feel like we're more oily, more moist, and we need less moisturizers.

So you need adaptive skincare, right, that can literally cover you from any environment and

anywhere you're traveling to and depending on what the weather's doing.

So winter is an absolute deal breaker in affecting your skin and your skin health needs will change when you're in drier, colder environments and seasons.

Everyone.

Yeah.

Unless you're super, super, super duper oily, then maybe you just get away with just not needing much.

But, you know.

No, no.

And so people can actually get skin conditions in winter that they don't get in summer.

It's all about not having enough moisturizer in the skin, not therefore providing a strong and protective barrier.

If you get dried out skin, you get barrier dysfunction.

If your barrier is not really fortified and hydrated and like bricks and wall with a fresh paint job on it.

And if the paint job is cracking and coming off because the dryness and the barriers are microscopically broken, anything, whether it's fabrics, water, soaps, perspiration, start getting in to the skin, creates inflammation, gets itchy, then we get rash, and then the whole snowball effect kicks in.

And then sometimes if your skin gets to that point and it feels sensitive, it feels dry, it feels freaky, you back off.

Gentle cleansing, lots of moisturizing.

Replenish the barrier, then slowly reintroduce your actives in.