Winter indeed is coming. While no whitewalker, nor a Jon Snow, would come to Japan, those lightweight white heaven-sent bits of ice that fall down from the sky will definitely come. And, you know what comes next – that extreme cold weather. Time to forget summer, wear thick jackets and gloves, and prepare ourselves for this annual event of everything freezing on us.
Japanese Winter Hand Care that will save your life
This year is especially different – we wash our hands more times than ever, we apply sanitizer every now and then. If we add the dryness of air during the winter season, we would soon expect breaks on our skin, and we don’t like that. Add up the cold breeze and flaky hands will be next. So how do we keep our hands healthy?
Here’s a few tips that will save your life in this year’s winter.
The Perfect Hand Sanitizer
As mentioned earlier, dryness will potentially bring harm and most hand sanitizers do just that. They suck away our natural oil leaving the outer layers of our skin dry. And, for the most part, dryness means clean and safe – but definitely not this season.
I recommend the types of hand sanitizers with moisturizing base and preferably made of natural ingredients. Apply it everyday (and at night as well) especially when you go out often.
These will be easily absorbed by the hands keeping your hands moisturized and killing all the bad jujus away!
Hand Creams
The complete dryness of this extreme cold weather is definitely stronger than just the moisturizing sanitizers, you’ll need all the help. And, here’s another player that will definitely help you keep your hands okay this winter season. Hand creams will not only help keep your hands moisturized, it would also keep your hands soft. Keeping yourself safe plus adding more charms to your arsenal, a hand cream will definitely get you there. And during winter, apply it often, especially if you are washing your hands.
Moisture Hand Mask
In a rush and your hands are completely dry? No worries, we got you covered.
Get Moisture Hand Masks.
Get one and all you have to do to save your hands, and of course yourself from possible skin breakage, is to place your hands inside the mask for 20 minutes – and viola! Extra dose of moisturizing factor right at your fingertips. And if you want some further moisturness when going hardcore, lather some hand lotion after as well. And hydration is in.
Hand Gloves
Of course, you can do all steps 1, 2, and 3 during the day when you’re up and awake. But, you do need to sleep for at least 6 hours, or more depending how good of a sleeper you are. While the chances of skin breakage is low while you’re sleeping, do you really want to take your chances? No? Good! Here’s what can help you – good old hand gloves. It’s the best protection for your hands, ever.
Moisturize your hands, put your hands in the gloves, and the gloves will do wonders while you sleep making sure that your hands are properly sanitized while you traverse the weird planes of dreamland.
Conclusion
Our hands are, perhaps, the most useful part of our bodies. We can live without it but imagine how we’ll live without it. It makes perfect sense that we take care of hands like how we take care of our bodies. So keep the moisture in place, wash your hands when you can, moisturize, and never let your hands go dry. Trust me, it will save your life.
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