Just like air that is too dry, air that is too humid can definitely make your skin go a little nuts. When the winter time hits full on and the air gets really dry and you’re sitting in stuffy, recycled air all day at the office, your skin definitely takes a hit and starts to look bad. Excessive dryness makes flaking, redness and irritation all that much more apparent. Oh, and your wrinkles look worse too, so it’s pretty much all all around bad thing for your skin. But what about the opposite? What about these humidity drenched hot days we’ve been having here in the midwest pretty much all summer? Does that do a number on your skin or not? Well, it definitely makes you skin look much more oily since the humidity adds to the oily look by making it “sit” on the surface much longer, and accumulate more often. So blotters have DEFINITELY been in order all summer long for this oily faced girl! Other than that though, can humidity actually contribute to acne at all, or is it really just an environmental annoyance that makes your skin appear more oily to the eye? Well, humidity can definitely help contribute to a breakout, but if you take some minor precautions, your skin will be fine. Especially the skin on your back and chest, which is prone to accumulate the dirt and oil that builds up under your clothes. You have more oil glands in these areas, so sebum can get trapped more easily when you are sweating all the time, which tends to happen pretty much nonstop when you are out in the elements in the summer heat. The good thing about humidity is that your skin will almost never look dry, and it’s much harder to get dry skin. Humidity keeps the skin moist, and if you drink plenty of water as well, this acts as your sort of “internal skin quencher”. This makes for smoother, more supple looking skin, but us with the oilies really need to break out the blotters a couple times a day. I swear, in this humidity, I’m blotting several times, and it’s not just when I step outside, it’s inside as well since some of that humidity seems to translate into higher humidity indoors as well, even when the A/C is on.

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