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How to Cure Dry Flaky Skin through Home Remedies


Dry flaky skin appears due to the insufficient production of sebum, natural oil that body produces. When the production of the body oil from natural oil glands is not sufficient for the body, the skin appears dull, dry and flaky.

Many people have excess of sebum production and many have lesser. More sebum gives an oily skin and lesser makes the skin dry. At times it can happen because of hormonal changes and due to some side effects of some medication. Both the skin problem where the skin is dry or oily cerates problem. One needs to eat healthy food, keeping the skin clean and giving proper moister to the skin to keep the dryness away. Changed weather conditions affect the skin a lot. In winters body loses its water and oil. Dry chilled air steals the oil from the skin and makes it dry. So when needs to give extra care and protection to the skin when it is suffering from weather changes.

 

What one should do to prevent the skin from dryness and what remedies to be applied to cure dry flaky skin?

  • Drink lots of water to keep the body hydrate. Water deficiency makes the skin dry and flaky. One needs to drink at least 10 glasses of water in a day, which is an adult's daily water need of the body.
  • Eat dairy products, nuts regularly in your diet. They have fats and oils in them, which are essential for the body to retain its moister and smoothness of the body. Diet habits have to be changed with changed weather conditions. Milk too us essential to keep the smoothness of the skin. If one totally avoids oil and starch from the diet, he is more prone to get affected with flaky skin.
  • Always coat the skin with a good body moisturizer or lotion. Especially when the weather is dry, coat your skin with moisturizer as many times as you can.
  • Whenever you go out in the winters cover your body with a good vitamin e based lotion. You can even take vitamin e supplements if your skin is very dry.

 

 

Home remedies for flaky skin:

  • Soaked almonds are good to keep the skin moist. One can have them everyday. Soak two almonds in a glass bowl in the night. Peel and eat them in the morning. They help a lot to keep the skin moist.
  • You can rub milk cream on the skin before going to bath. It is very rich and makes the skin replenish its lost moister.
  • Oil massages your body in winters to remove the dryness and to protect the skin with the changed weather condition. Baby oil, vitamin E oil and olive oil are good options for body massage.
  • Mixture of almond oil and olive oil is extremely good for very dry flaky skin.
  • Take a bottle of glycerin and add few drops of lemon juice to it. Shake it well and apply it on the dry skin. You can keep it overnight also on the skin and wash it in the morning.
  • Aloe- Vera cream is a very healing cream for flaky skin. It has soothing agents, which repair the damaged skin tissues and repair it from the damage skin gets from dryness. If you have lost the moister of your skin, apply pure aloe-Vera cream on your body to soothe it.
  • Apply moisturizing soaps on your body to prevent it from further damage. Use can choose soaps, which are milk cream based.
  • Do not go in direct sun. It also steals the moister from the skin and makes it dry. So whenever you go in the sun apply sunscreen lotion.
  • For the dryness of your lips and heels apply petroleum jelly.
  • Do not take shower with very hot water. Hot water reduces the natural oils from the body and makes it dry. So use lukewarm water on your skin.
  • If there is lots of itching, rashes, swelling or peeling on the skin then seek medical advice and don't experiment with the skin. It can be some skin allergy or skin disease. You can spoil your skin so better take precaution and be careful about the health of your skin.

 

So if you pamper your dry skin with all the ingredients required for the dry skin care, you can prevent your skin from dryness and stop it from further damage. Eating right food, drinking lots of fluids and applying sufficient moisturizing agents on the skin will keep your skin away from flakes and skin will remain smooth. Feeding right food is equally important for the skin as applying right moisturizers on it. Skin flakes are not a permanent problem it can be sorted out easily with proper care. All kind of skin needs to be pampered but dry flaky skin needs a little more. So pay a little more attention to your skin to keep it healthy and glowing.

 

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