The Least Wonderful Time Of The Year
— Soft Services newsletter
Your winter routine.
Soft Services Your winter routine. As the seasons come and go, Soft Services customers dread the day when temperatures drop too low to comfortably expose their impossibly smooth and even-toned limbs to fresh air. Woefully, they squeeze into the first of countless pairs of hosiery, leggings, and base layers they’ll live inside for the next five months.
While the constant embrace of a wide cotton-spandex waistband is a silver lining indeed, a season confined to tights is the least wonderful time of the year for body skin. Shop Smoothing Set Tight clothes, such as tights, act like shrink-wrap on your skin, which is constantly shedding, sweating, and growing hair underneath. Certain materials, detergents, and softeners can irritate skin, especially when constantly trapped against it.
Though it’s almost impossible to avoid nylon and elastane, tights made with natural fibers like cotton or merino are kinder on skin and less friendly to bacteria—consider these when wearing tights for a long stretch of time. Take them off when you can—the more skin can breathe, the better. The constant friction and other irritation from being bundled up is why many people notice their bodies break out more during the wintertime.
Wash tights inside out with mild detergent, no softener, and avoid fragrance if your skin seems to be especially sensitive. If you have the urge to scratch your legs, butt, or torso when wearing tights, you might have a mild allergy that can be fixed by trying different fabrics, brands, and changing your laundry products. Your skin can’t properly shed when it spends the day laminated in a tube of nylon, so give it some extra attention.
Use Buffing Bar after a long day in tights to coax off dead skin cells and any hairs that couldn’t grow outward. After showering, use calming and clarifying Smoothing Solution on dry skin before applying keratin-softening Carea Cream . Applying products at night gives them plenty of time to absorb. In the morning, skin will be bouncy and smooth, but dry to the touch, which will create less friction, dampness, and no product build-up underneath your tights.
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Tags: Routine, Dry Skin, Buffing Bar — Original, Smoothing Solution, Carea Cream