The Murad Winter Skin Care Hub

Over the years, the Murad Skin Deep Blog has offered up many tips and pieces of advice for how to have healthy skin all winter long via Inclusive Health® combined with a great skin care regimen. This year, we compiled all of our resources into one location to help you achieve glowing winter skin. Everything you need for healthy winter skin? It’s right below!

Our Best Winter Skin Care Advice
Tips for Healthy Skin on a Winter Diet. For many people, diet simply becomes less healthy in the winter months. Inclusive Health advice on keeping healthy skin even on a winter diet.

Winter Lip Care Tips: Lip care is part of winter skin care, too. Advice for keeping soft, healthy lips in the colder, bad weather seasons.

Winter Sports and Your Skin. Do you love to ski or play other winter outdoor sports? Advice for keeping your skin healthy on the slopes, the rink or in the locker room afterwards.

Tips to Look Tan Without the Sun. Keep that summer glow all year long with these tips on looking tan without the sun.

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Skin Care Tips for Ski Season

Not everybody likes to hit the slopes to ski or board when winter hits (some of us prefer to hang out in the lodge with a warm, delicious beverage!) However, for some people, mountain-based sports are a great way to get outside for fresh air, Vitamin D and physical exercise. While exercise and sports are an ideal way to improve overall health and reduce stress, you don’t want to overlook the negative impact that skiing can have on your skin if you don’t practice proper skin care. Here are some tips for hitting the slopes and keeping your skin healthy!

Ski Skin Care Tip Number One: Don’t Forget the Sun Block
Your body may crave the vitamin D that it gets from the sun in the winter, but the UV rays that you’re being exposed to can do permanent damage to your skin in the form of dark spots and age spots, the early appearance of wrinkles and even skin diseases. Be sure to wear proper protective clothing and hats and apply a complete sunscreen to any exposed areas of your skin. Don’t just rely on a moisturizer with SPF or PA protection. If you’re going to be on the slopes all day, you’ll want something water resistant and with a higher protection factor. Remember, when you’re out on the slopes, you’re likely getting double sun exposure from the direct rays of the sun and the reflected rays off of the snow.

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5 Surprising Winter Skin Care Tips

It’s not that hard to find tips on how to change-up your skin care regimen for winter. But underneath the layers of reminding you to wear sunscreen even in the winter and to use more moisturizer as the drier winter months set in, there are some surprising skin care tips that many of us forget to take advantage of in the winter. Here are five often forgotten skin care tips for keeping healthy, glowing skin all winter long.

Hot Baths Lead to Dry Skin

As the weather gets colder, many of us crave the sensation of a hot bath. We’re not going to deny that a hot bath can feel delicious in the middle of a cold winter spell, but that hot water can be rough on your skin. You may be feeling warm and cozy, but your skin is drying out and losing the essential moisture that it needs to remain healthy in the winter. If you do indulge in the hot baths of winter season, be sure to follow it up by hydrating topically with a moisture-rich lotion and internally by eating fresh fruits or vegetables.

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The Murad Holiday Skin Care Hub

The holiday season is well under way and as you’re shopping for gifts, planning your menus and booking your travel, don’t forget about holiday skin care. From product recommendations to tips and advice, you can find all of the Murad holiday skin care information right here.

Holiday Skin Care Tips for All Skin Types
Holidays and Your Skin Care Routine: What do the holidays mean for you and your skin? Tips and advice on maintaining your skin care regimen during the busy holiday season.

Tips for Choosing a Holiday Skin Care Gift: Not every skin care or beauty item sends the right message or is right for every person. Tips on selecting great skin care gifts this season.

Holiday Product Idea: Take a Look at Face Masks and Home Facials
A face mask or home facial is a great holiday gift because it both delivers healthy, glowing skin and also pampers the recipient with a home spa-like experience. From masks that soothe to masks that energize, Murad has a premium home facial for every skin type and every individual. Explore today and find yours.

Skin Tips for Holiday Travel
Prepare Your Skin Care Routine for Holiday Travel: What adjustments do you need to make to your skin care routine as the holidays roll in and travel gets more frequent? We’ve got tips and advice.

Five Skin Care Tips for Frequent Fliers: If air travel is in your holiday plans, you’ll want to make sure that you’re up-to-speed on all of these must-haves and must-dos!

Holiday Product Idea: Choose Travel-Sized Products
Whether it’s for stocking stuffers or holiday travel, airplane, sample-size and travel-sized skin care products are a great way to make sure that your favorite products are always with you. Stock up to get you through the travel-heavy holiday season and then enjoy being able to pick-up-and-go with your skin care products whenever you want.

Holiday Acne Treatment Tips
Holiday Stress: The Enemy of Your Acne Treatment Plan: Heightened stress levels can cause over activity in the adrenal glad that results in more hormones, more oil and skin cell production to clog pores and more blemishes. Get the facts on holiday stress and your acne breakouts

Acne Treatment Advice for Holiday Party Season: Don’t let blemishes ruin your fun at holiday party season. Tips for getting clear and staying clear all through the high-party season of the holidays.

Advice for Covering and Concealing Acne Blemishes: Have a holiday blemish and don’t want it to ruin a family photo or holiday party or dance? Advice for covering and concealing blemishes healthily and effectively.

New Year’s Acne Treatment Resolutions: Start the year off right by adopting these resolutions to get clear and healthy skin.

Holiday Product Idea: Have a Concealer Handy
The holidays are a time when lots of pictures are taken and you never know when you’ll find yourself in an ad-hoc holiday party. Keep a Murad Acne Treatment Concealer in your purse or bag so that you can always touch-up pesky blemishes whenever you need to suddenly freshen your look.

The holidays are a time to sit back and enjoy yourself, but they’re also a time when your skin care regimen can get forgotten in the hustle and bustle. Use these tips and product recommendations to keep your skin glowing and healthy through the New Year.

Santa’s Skin is Red and Ruddy. Yours Should Not Be.

At this time of year, you’re most likely bombarded with images of Santa Claus with a bright red nose and a ruddy red complexion. That looks great on the old guy with the white beard in the red suit, but it’s not such a good look for you. Unfortunately, the cold, dry weather that comes with the holiday season means that many people are more likely to experience red, dry and irritated skin. What’s the solution if you want to minimize redness in your skin this winter holiday season? Here are some tips from Murad!

Keep Using Sun Protection All Winter Long
Just because the calendar says “winter”, it doesn’t mean that the danger of UV rays is gone. Especially if it’s snowy where you live, in which case you’re getting both the direct rays of the sun as well as the rays that are reflected off of the snow’s surface. Make sure that any exposed parts of your body are using UV protection every time you go outside. Too much sun can lead to redness as well as skin damage. Remember, you may be getting even more sun exposure in the winter than in the summer! Be sure to use skin care products with sun protection whenever you’re outside!

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Tips for Changing Your Skin Care Regimen: Smoothing the Transition

Change is a good thing, and we should all embrace it! As you age, switch environments and make lifestyle changes, your skin changes as well. That means that what the right skin care regimen for you today is may not be the right skin care solution for you next year, next month or even next week. And it’s not just about changes in your body and your skin. New skin care innovations are being created all of the time that may be better for your skin type or skin care issue than what you’re currently using. So what do you do when it’s time to switch skin care products? Here are some tips for making the switch.

Get Advice from Experts … and Consumers
Before you decide to stop using a skin care regimen that’s been good to you, ask around about the products that you’re about to start using. Don’t fall prey to good marketing that may or may not have a good product to back it up. Your advice should include skin care experts (an esthetician is best, but you can also turn to that friend of yours who always knows everything about the latest in skin care) as well as regular consumers. A great place to start is always the customer review section on a skin care product line’s website. Remember, you should see both positive and negative reviews for all products. Not all skin care products work for all customers. If you only see positive reviews on a site, you should be worried. It means that the site is most likely editing out poor reviews.

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How to Create a Home Spa Experience: Relax and Pamper Yourself at Home

You’ll often hear us say on the Murad Skin Deep Blog that creating a home spa day is an important part of both a skin care regimen and stress-relief as part of the Emotional Self Care™ pillar of Inclusive Health™. However, we’ve never given you real advice on the best way to set up a home spa for yourself. Here’s a step-by-step guide on creating a spa in your very own home.

Step One: The Space
You’ll obviously need to utilize your bathroom as part of your home spa day. After all, you’ll be doing both skin care and body care treatments that will require a sink or even a shower. However, you’ll want more space than just your bathroom if you can arrange it. If your bathroom connects to your bedroom, then that’s ideal. However you manage it, you’ll want an area where you can have access to a sink and a shower as well as an area where you can stretch out for more space. Once you’ve identified the space that you’ll need, make it relaxing by doing the following;

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Skin Care Tips for Lovers of Hot Yoga (Bikram)

Bikram yoga (a 90-minute form of yoga done in a room with a temperature of 105F) has been around since the early 1970s. In the last decade, however, it’s grown in popularity across the country both for its benefits to physical fitness as well as for its ability to help reduce stress. Today, millions of people in most major cities in the United States include Bikram (or hot yoga as it’s often called) in their physical and mental fitness regimen. Bikram is a great way to get focused and get fit, but ninety minutes of sweating can cause a hit to your skin care regimen. What do you need to keep in mind when it comes to skin care and Bikram yoga? Here are some tips to remember.

Rehydrate After Bikram Class
Healthy skin is hydrated skin, and hydrated skin begins on the inside. After ninety minutes of sweating, you’ll need to seriously rehydrate. Make sure that you have fresh fruits and vegetables with you so that you can eat your water as described in Dr. Murad’s best-selling book, The Water Secret. The cellular structure of water in fruits and vegetables is absorbed more readily by your body and keeps you hydrated longer rather than quickly passing through your system and flushing out minerals and nutrients. The single most important thing that you can do for your skin (and your health) after a Bikram yoga class is to be sure that you hydrate internally!

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Photoshopped or Not Photoshopped? Face and Body Perfect.

From magazine covers to Twitter pictures, we’ve all seen (and debated) whether somebody was Photoshopped or not. In fact, in this day and age, you don’t even need a computer to alter a picture Instagram filters or smartphone apps like moreBeaute can remove imperfections like acne breakouts or the signs of aging on skin in photos. The topic of whether the images that are being put out in the media (and by people on their own computers and phones) are true to life or good for your self-esteem is complicated. It’s also directly related to how you feel about your skin care regimen and its results. We thought we’d take a few moments to discuss photo-correction, your skin and your self-esteem!

The Truth: Almost Everybody Does Something to Correct Skin Flaws
It’s possible that you never put on makeup and that the skin care products that you buy are purely to cleanse and hydrate and in no way to correct imperfections like acne blemishes, post-acne marks, age spots and dark spots, wrinkles or loose skin. However, for most people, there’s at least one product – if not an entire bathroom full – designed to correct or conceal imperfections in their skin. So where is the line? Is it wrong to Photoshop a blemish out of a picture or use an Instagram filter to increase blur and remove visible marks but acceptable to apply a daily concealer to blemishes and dark spots? We’d be curious to hear what you think. Tell us on our Facebook page, tweet us @muradcares or send us an email! How natural do you need to be to be natural enough? And where is the line when it comes to digital enhancement versus product and makeup enhancements?

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Three Makeup Tips to Look Tan Without the Sun

Most people love the look of sun-kissed skin, especially at this time of year. However, nothing does more damage to your skin—both in the long term and the short term—than UV rays. No matter what skin care products you use, excessive exposure to UV rays, either from the sun or a tanning bed, ultimately cause signs of aging on your skin. These include fine lines, medium-to-deep wrinkles, sagging skin, age spots and sun spots. While you may love that tan look now, you won’t love the results later on when you need to remove and fade age spots or sun spots. Still want a healthy glow? Here are three ways get the look of a tan without the damage.

Tip #1: Use a Bronzing Makeup or Primer
The easiest way to give your face a bit of color is to use a makeup or makeup primer with a subtle bronze tint. You don’t want to go overboard with makeup or primers that leave you looking orange, but a well-matched color can give you that sun-kissed look without harming your skin. Murad Absolute Bronzing Boost SPF 15 | PA++ is the perfect solution. This makeup primer gives skin a healthy summer glow as it protects, firms and promotes skin health.

Tip #2: Use a Bronzing Powder on Top of Your Makeup
For a subtle look, apply a bronze or golden dusting power on bare skin or on top of your foundation. Again, the key here is not to go overboard. Opt for a mineral-based powder and apply it on the apples of your cheeks, above your brow line and on the tip of your nose, since those are the areas where the sun would naturally affect your skin the most.

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