The Ultimate Hydrating Skincare Routine

Skin dehydration is a prevalent skin concern across the subcontinent. It is characterized by the lack of moisture content in your skin – leading to itchiness, dryness or dullness on the outside. But that's not all. Dehydrated skin has a bevy of long-term consequences too, including early formation of skin ageing and an impaired skin barrier. To keep these concerns at bay, one must adhere to a solid skincare on the reg.

Foxtale carries an assortment of products formulated for dehydrated skin. These hydrating skin products are high-performing, innovative, and safe for everyday use. Using multiple pathways, these products replenish your skin’s water content while being extremely gentle.

Start with The Hydrating Cleanser: Use this formula to gently remove dust, grime, and pollutants from your skin while ensuring deep hydration. It contains Sodium Hyaluronate and Red Algae Extract that bind water molecules to the skin. The best part? This effective cleanser doubles as a makeup remover. It has gentle surfactants that melt every trace of makeup and SPF from the pores.

If your skin is dehydrated and acne-prone, this product should be on your wishlist. Red Algae Extract absorbs excess sebum, ensuring balanced skin. Moreover, Vitamin B5 helps fade acne and spots with time.

The Daily Hydrating Serum: Infused with 6 hydration boosters, the serum ensures multi-level hydration for smooth, plumpy skin. This serum also carries Alpha-Bisabolol, Betaine, and Vitamin B5 that help alleviate inflammation. Additionally, if you want to reverse early signs of ageing, this formulation should be in your vanity. Topical application of this high-performing serum softens fine lines, wrinkles, crow’s feet and more.

Barrier Repair Cream: Dehydrated skin can lead to a damaged lipid barrier. To remedy this concern, we recommend the Barrier Repair Cream for your vanity. Infused with Olive Leaf Extracts and Provitamin B5, this formulation adds to your skin’s moisture reservoir using ERS Technology.

Dewy Finish Sunscreen: Get 360-degree sun protection with a gorgeous, dewy finish for your skin – only with Foxtale’s Dewy Finish Sunscreen. The formula contains D-Panthenol and Vitamin E that help elevate your overall skin health.

Why Do I Need Hydrating Skin Products?

Hydration is indispensable to the health of your skin. Here’s how hydrating products promote healing, strengthen the lipid barrier and ensure softer-looking skin.

Hydration promotes a healthy barrier: For those unaware, your skin’s outermost layer is called the lipid barrier. This wall-like structure serves as the first line of defense for your body. It prevents pollutants, irritants, harmful pathogens and more. Sustained hydration is crucial for keeping this barrier intact and ensuring its maximum efficiency.

Hydrating products make your skin plump: If your skin has been looking lifeless and beat lately, it is most likely low on hydration. To remedy this problem at hand, hydrating skincare is important. It helps revive dull, beat-looking skin by making it instantly plump. And who doesn’t like that?

Hydration defers skin ageing: We can all agree that ageing is a beautiful and natural process. However, certain skincare formulations can help you age more gracefully. We recommend using a hydrating skincare to fight fine lines, wrinkles, crow’s feet and more.

Hydration regulates sebum production: Yes, read that again. The excess grease on the face is not a measure of regular hydration. The lack of hydration flags off the oil glands into overdrive mode. This grave oversight leads to the pores spilling even more oil than usual. To maintain a healthy microbiome, hydration is important.

Hydration reduces inflammation: Hydrating skincare helps offset redness, rashes, hives and more. So, if you have sensitive skin or a weakened lipid barrier, swear by regular hydration in your daily AM/PM rituals.

Hydration reduces the appearance of dark circles: Dehydration can make your skin pale, exposing the network of enlarged blood vessels a.k.a. dark circles under the eyes. Stick to a hydrating skincare routine in your morning and nighttime routine, to fade these dark circles over time.

Hydration improves skin texture: Use a hydrating skincare to combat dryness, flakiness and scaly texture of the skin. This step in your daily routine improves texture, making your skin appear extremely smooth and soft.

Hydration expedites healing: Long-lasting hydration helps your skin recover from nicks, cuts and wounds much faster.

What Does Dehydrated Skin Look Like?

Here are the most common symptoms of dehydrated skin

Paleness of the skin

Dull, tired-looking skin

Itchiness or irritation

What Skin Types Need Hydration?

Hydration is essential for all skin types – normal, dry, oily, combination, and sensitive.

What Is The Difference Between Hydration and Moisturization?

Hydration and moisturization help with two different concern areas. Here’s how-

Hydration: The process of hydration binds water molecules to the skin. This is usually achieved in skincare products using humectants like Hyaluronic Acid, Glycerin, Lactic Acid and more. We use hydration to revive dehydrated skin – which is a concern.

Moisturization: The skin produces natural oils that make it soft and taut. If your skin is unable to produce an adequate amount of oil, it leads to dryness. Dry skin (not a concern, a skin type) is revived using a moisturizing formula that contains humectants, emollients and occlusives.

1. Humectants: These ingredients bind moisture molecules to the skin, ensuring long-lasting and multi-level hydration.

2. Occlusives: These components in your moisturizer create a physical barrier on the skin, preventing TEWL or transepidermal water loss.

3. Emollients: Emollients fill the rifts between cells, making your skin appear soft, supple and smooth.

Should I Hydrate Or Moisturize My Skin?

Both. Hydration and moisturization are both necessary. While hydration replenishes your skin’s water reservoir, moisturization creates a protective barrier to keep this reservoir safe. It helps prevent TEWL or transepidermal water loss. So, if you are hydrating your skincare, follow with a potent moisturizing formula.

Can I Use The Same Routine For Dry And Dehydrated Skin?

Dry and dehydrated skin are not the same. However, the products involved in their treatment are fairly identical.

What Are Some Tips And Tricks To Ensure Maximum Skin Hydration?

To make the best of a hydrating skincare, here are some additional tips and tricks that you can use.

Avoid over washing: Cleansing twice daily is non-negotiable. It removes dirt, grime and impurities, ensuring healthier cellular renewal. However, one should never go overboard. Repeatedly washing your skin makes it feel stripped and uncomfortably tight.

Prevent over-exfoliation: For the unversed, exfoliation involves sloughing off dead cells, debris, and dirt to reveal smoother, brighter skin. Regular exfoliation is important for all skin types, however, overdoing it can pull all the moisture from the skin. Result? Dehydrated skin.

Never skip moisturizer: Even the best serum won’t keep hydration intact if you skimp on moisturizer. We know that a good moisturizer forms a protective barrier on the skin, preventing TEWL or transepidermal water loss. Most of these formulas also contain humectants that double down on hydration. If your skin is extremely dehydrated, you can apply moisturizer on damp skin.

Avoid hot showers: A hot shower may take your stress away, but it impacts skin health negatively. You see - continued exposure to hot zaps moisture from the skin, making it dehydrated.

Change in lifestyle: Did you know that excessive consumption of caffeine and alcohol has a direct impact on your skin? These diuretics pull moisture molecules, making the skin criminally dehydrated. To help double down efforts for great skin, try and cut down your intake of these substances.

Use a humidifier: For all the readers who reside in cold places, we recommend investing in a humidifier. Dry air often pulls moisture molecules from your skin, making it dehydrated. A humidifier adds moisture molecules into the air around you, solving this problem.

Use a hydrating toner mid-day: Your skin can use a little pick-me-up during the day. We recommend keeping a toner handy that helps replenish your skin’s moisture content. Additionally, it makes you look fresh and fabulous with just a spritz.

Don’t be stingy with SPF: Sunscreen plays an important role in addressing several concerns. A potent formula shields your skin against UV rays, preventing burns, tanning, pigmentation and photoaging. But that’s not all. These harmful rays from the sun also deplete your skin’s moisture reservoir, making it dehydrated. To avoid these concerns, you should apply two fingers’ worth of sunscreen, all over the face and neck. If you stay outdoors, ensure to reapply every 2 hours.

Exfoliate regularly: Exfoliating thrice a week dissolves buildup, unclogs pores and helps in better absorption of your hydrating serums and lotions.

Avoid drying makeup: Certain makeup products like base, foundation etc. can dislodge moisture molecules from the skin, making it exceptionally dehydrated. So, be cautious while shopping for new products. If you have dehydrated, acne-prone skin, avoid clear comedogenic formulas that may clog your pores.