Dry Skin vs Dehydrated Skin: What’s the Difference?

Until you learn to distinguish dry skin from dehydration, you will not be able to properly care for it. Get a few hints.

Skin type and condition

Immediately dot the i.

  • Dryness is a type of skin, it is unchanging. To keep dry skin looking healthy, it needs constant care.

  • Dehydration is a temporary symptom that can be corrected.

Just in case, determine what type of skin you have.

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How to know if your skin is dehydrated

Dehydration and loss of turgor cannot be determined only by dullness and uneven relief. Try to gather the skin on the cheek into a thin fold without capturing the muscle tissue.

  • Does not work? Excellent, turgor is good, moisture is in order.

  • Collected, released, and the fold immediately straightened out? Also not bad – turgor is almost normal.

  • Bruising and small wrinkles remain? It is worth worrying – the turgor is weak. And if, unlike age-related, these wrinkles disappear after applying the cream, the skin is clearly dehydrated.

Dryness is a type of skin, it is constant and unchanging. For such skin to look healthy, it needs constant care.

Having arranged a face test, test the hands as well – on their back, the skin also easily loses moisture.

Dehydration can happen to any skin type.

  • Oily skin reacts to the lack of moisture by increasing the secretion of sebum, so it begins to shine even more.

  • Dry becomes sensitive, peeling, irritation appear.

Dehydration can be caused by a number of factors.

  • Age: hyaluronic acid, the main “moisture trap” in tissues, is produced in a smaller volume.

  • Cold season: sub-zero temperatures and wind outside, plus dry indoor air.

  • Excessive insolation.

  • Incorrect care: products chosen not according to skin type, as well as too aggressive and / or frequent cleansing.

  • General dehydration of the body: if you drink little water, are fond of coffee, or just a dry summer.

Dehydration is a temporary symptom that can be corrected.

All of the above adversely affects the protective hydrolipidic barrier of the skin, it is more difficult for it to perform its functions, respectively, water from the epidermis simply evaporates.

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How to repair dehydrated skin

The first aid for dehydrating skin of any type is moisturizing. In the care products intended for this, there are:

  • hydrophilic substances: hyaluronic acid and other polysaccharides, amino acids, minerals, algae extracts, chitosan;

  • components that create a protective layer to maintain the epidermal barrier: squalane, natural waxes.

Do not use products that injure the skin: alcohol-containing tonics, aggressive scrubs.

Read about restorative creams here.

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How to restore skin moisture

Moisturizing serums and masks work on solving this problem, but on the condition that they are used not instead of creams, but together with them. And, of course, moisturizers for day and night care will come in handy.

The first aid for dehydration of any type of skin is moisturizing.

Daily cream

  • For dry skin that also needs lipid nourishment – with ceramides, oils, squalane.

  • For oily – with a light texture, non-comedogenic, without mineral oils.

  • For the combination – intensely moisturizing for the cheekbones and cheeks, plus a mattifying fluid for the T-zone.

Night cream

“Look for thermal water, vitamins C, E, group B, hyaluronic acid, carrageenan and other algae derivatives, honey and berry extracts as part of night products,” says Ekaterina Turubara, Vichy expert.
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Overview of cosmetics

Moisturizing care Aquasource Skin Perfection, Biotherm

The Hydrovance system provides deep and long-lasting (per day) hydration for normal and combination skin. The product contains a high concentration of thermal plankton extract.

Intensive moisturizer Hydraphase Intense Riche, La Roche-Posay

Low molecular weight hyaluronic acid intensely hydrates the skin, thermal water provides antioxidant protection to dry skin.

Serum concentrate, intensively moisturizing the skin and smoothing its texture, Hydro-Plumping Re-Texturizing Serum Concentrate, Kiehl’s

Liquid Serum technology allows vegetable glycerin and Shiso leaf extract to penetrate deep into the epidermis, providing moisture to the skin and preventing water from evaporating. Visibly smoothes, removes signs of fatigue, fights signs of aging caused by dehydration.

Moisture Genius Aquafluid for Normal to Combination Skin, L’Oréal Paris

The formula with hyaluronic acid and aloe juice intensively moisturizes, works in several layers of the epidermis. Thanks to its light consistency, it is quickly absorbed and leaves no shine.

Mineralizing thermal water, Vichy

Restores the barrier functions of the skin, moisturizes, soothes.

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