text: As the mercury plummets and the winter weather rolls in, it’s time to employ some savvy swiish skin savers, to keep your skin glowing through the grey winter days.
  As the unpredictable winter weather often leads to some kind of skin disaster or another, dry, irritated, itchy, flaky or cracking skin can occur. We constantly change climates from the windy outdoors to the dry and heated indoors, and our skin can take a beating.
  The initial cracks in a winter skin regime first start to form on your lips. As the chilly winds lash your lips, the obvious response is layers and layers of lip balm, however this isn’t the best way to cure your dry chapped lips.
  Instead, exfoliation is the first critical step to get back those soft, supple and totally kissable lips. By ridding your lips of the top dry and cracked skin cells your trusty lip balms can penetrate the lips and get to work.
  Add 1 teaspoon of Vaseline or softened shea butter and mix well. If shea butter is not soft, soften by warming or use a spoon to whip/beat the shea butter before adding to the lip scrub mixture.
  The only thing that can drag most of us out of our warm beds in the morning is the promise of a nice, hot shower. But turning up the temperature is actually the last thing your skin needs during the winter. Keep showers as short as possible and try to use warm water to avoid drying out skin.
  Sounds like an obvious one, but exfoliation is seriously the key to warding off winter beauty blunders. One particular type of exfoliation that is a must, is dry brushing.
  Dry brushing is known for its various health benefits, from improving circulation to decreasing the appearance of cellulite. It’s just about the easiest beauty remedy there is! Needing only a good quality brush and your biceps, just start scrubbing and like anything, the more often you scrub, the better the results you’ll get.
  This may seem like the ultimate cardinal sin of all skin secrets, but oil is actually good for the skin. Shocker I know - when oil and skin are put in the same sentence, you can be forgiven for thinking danger, pimple zone, but in fact, your skin often needs oil to help it soak up some much needed moisture.
  Why not try this easy as facial oil treatment to ward off that dull and often blotchy winter dry skin.
  Pat facial oil on top. This will work to trap the moisture in and help to keep the moisturiser from dissipating.
  What fabulous ideas. The Dermalogica Microfoliant is a favourite of mine. I ahve just ran out off to buy a new one soon.