Avoiding the Scales

No, this isn’t a post about body image or weight loss. This is about avoiding becoming a scale covered reptile in the winter months which tends to happen to my dry sensitive skin in the winter months. Enter Operation Winter Nice Skin.

The Galapagos cute old man we met in Dubbo, but don’t want to look like

As you all probably know, Claire and I are heading to Italy at the end of June, which means our opaque black tights and jumpers will be torn from us and the milky white horror beneath them will be unleashed on the unsuspecting population.
Basically, I intend to be wearing cute summer dresses and rocking my St Tropez the whole time. To do this, I need a good base to work with, which means looking after my skin until we go.

So far this autumn, I have dived into my winter wardrobe and neglected my skin almost completely. However the ever itchiness of my legs is telling me now is the time to fix this problem before these become my limbs.

Jokes, like I could ever grow my nails that long

As part of Operation Winter Nice Skin, I need to address what has happened each and every time I have attempted this Operation.

Each and every winter I tell myself I will look after my skin this winter and use better products and actually moisturise my body after my shower. Of course, it’s cold and I’m a sook and I just cover myself in soap and expose myself to the elements without giving back to my poor skin, which of course leads to said scales and dreaded dermatitis. Disgusting.

So y first step to counteract this was to start in the shower – stop using soap.
I’ve been a giant lover of Dove forever. Its great and it does the job for James and I and our different skin. But alas, it does not cut it for winter.
So I hightailed it to Lush the other day and took a look at their body washes.

In the end I decided I wanted one that didn’t come in liquid form, and selected the very delicious smelling Turkish Delight.

This body smoothie has a soapy base but a whole bunch of almond oil and cocoa butter along with dreamy jasmine and rose extracts which make the whole bathroom and especially me smell amazing.
The only downside is you go through a lot when using  trying to get a decent lather to spread all of your body – maybe I’d be better off with a shower puff to really lather it? So far I just treat it like melted soap.

I’ve only been using this a few days and so far it seems nice and moisturising, although it does feel soap-like making skin squeaky clean after use, which I did want to avoid.

The second thing I picked up in Lush was a very delicious sample that I now very much want to buy.
As mentioned, I am the laziest girl in the words with moisturising. Its boring and I hate it.

Enter; this very fabulous product!

Ro’s Argan Body Conditioner! I feel like this was made with my extreme laziness in mind. Basically, after washing you apply this delicious smelling goop all over and then rinse off. Its like moisturing IN the shower, not out. So you don’t get all cold putting freezing cold cream all over yourself with dripping wet hair.
The very best part of this is the smell, oh god, I could live in the tub it’s that good. I even sent James updates throughout the day that I still smelt amazing. I even called my Mum, a fellow extreme dry skin sufferer and lazy skin care girl and told her to buy it straight away.

The only downside to these products, is that they are both $32.95, which is a bit expensive to buy both at once. However it’s next on my Lush Lust List.

My next plan of attack is my face. If you’ve been reading this from the beginning, you may have noticed some pics with dermatitis under my eyes at the end of winter. This happens nearly every year as I don’t mix up my skincare enough. Scales in Italy are not hot. I shall update when I have a proper plan.

Does your skincare change much from summer to winter, or are you lazy and naughty like me?
Any tips on staying human and less like a reptile animorph? I’d love to hear it.

B x