With the days getting shorter, winds picking up, and the mercury creeping towards zero, it’s time to switch up your skincare regimen.  Winter will wreak havoc on your epidermis – dry hands, chapped cheeks, and overall dehydration are all common symptoms.  As with everything in life, the key is prevention: hydrate now, evade dryness in February, and wrinkles later on.  Here are our favourite moisturizers to get you through the harshest of the seasons, skin intact.

Dermalogica Dynamic Skin Recovery SPF30 $82, 50 ml

Think just because it’s winter means you don’t have to wear sunscreen? Think again, sister. Our pal the sun never sleeps when it comes to aging your skin. This daily moisturizer from Dermalogica not only hydrates skin and encourages firmness, it also protects you from long-term sun exposure.  Take that, sun damage.

Elizabeth Grant Lubricating Body Treatment $24, 250 ml

While dressing for winter involves a good deal of covering up, we all want to keep our skin silky smooth. You never know when you’re going to need to show a little leg, am I right? Elizabeth Grant’s Lubricating Body Treatment contains all the right ingredients (shea butter, Vitamin E, and aloe extract) to keep your skin velvety smooth and, most importantly, hydrated.  Use daily after showering to get that aaaaaaah feeling.

Elizabeth Arden Intervene Stress Recovery Night Cream $65

Like your body, your skin recovers from the stresses of the day while you’re sleeping.  Help it make the most of those precious hours with the Elizabeth Arden Stress Recovery Night Cream.  It promises that you’ll wake up to skin that looks younger, relaxed, revitalized, and radiant. Sounds like a dream come true. 

~ Caitlin Agnew