Winter Skincare Tips: How to Stay Hydrated During Dry, Cooler Months
As the weather cools down and the air becomes crisp, our skin starts to feel the seasonal shift almost immediately. Winter is one of the most dehydrating times of year for the skin — humidity drops, heaters turn on, and suddenly skin feels tighter, duller, and more sensitive.
The good news? With a few intentional changes, winter can actually be the best season to restore your skin barrier and boost hydration.
Why Skin Gets Drier in the Winter
Cooler temperatures mean less moisture in the air, which causes water to evaporate from the skin more quickly. Combine that with indoor heating, hot showers, wind exposure, and car heaters — and your skin barrier takes a hit.
Adjusting your skincare routine to support hydration during winter helps prevent flakiness, irritation, and dehydration before winter arrives.
Winter Skincare Tips for Deep, Lasting Hydration
1. Switch to a Creamy, Barrier-Friendly Cleanser
Foaming cleansers can be too stripping during cooler months. Winter is the time to use a gentle, creamy cleanser that cleanses without removing your skin’s natural oils.
Recommended Cleanser: Face Reality Creamy Cleanser
2. Add a Hydrating Serum to Your Routine
Serums deliver hydration deeper into the skin and help it retain moisture throughout the day. This step is essential once humidity levels drop.
Recommended Serum: Hydrinity Restorative Serum
3. Lock in Moisture With the Right Moisturizer
During winter, your skin needs a moisturizer that supports the barrier and seals in hydration without feeling heavy or greasy.
Recommended Moisturizers:
Hydrinity-C Moisturizer
GlyMed Oxygen Moisturizer
Pro Tips for Staying Hydrated During Winter
Don’t Skip Masks in the Winter
Winter is the perfect time to incorporate hydrating and calming masks into your routine. Masks provide an extra boost of moisture, help soothe irritation, and support the skin barrier when it’s most vulnerable to dryness and environmental stress.
Using a mask 1–2 times per week can make a noticeable difference in how hydrated, calm, and resilient your skin feels throughout the season.
Face Reality Hydracalm Mask
Why it’s a winter must-have:
The Hydracalm Mask is designed to deeply hydrate while calming redness and inflammation. It’s especially beneficial during winter when skin tends to feel tight, reactive, or compromised.
Best for: Dry, sensitive, acne-prone, or irritated skin
Why you’ll love it:
Instantly soothing and cooling
Helps restore hydration and comfort
Strengthens the skin barrier during harsh winter conditions
Hydrinity BioCellulose Hydrating Restorative Mask
Why it’s a winter essential:
This professional-grade biocellulose mask delivers intense hydration and restorative ingredients deep into the skin. The biocellulose material molds perfectly to the face, helping active ingredients penetrate more effectively — making it ideal for winter-dehydrated skin.
Best for: Severely dehydrated, compromised, post-treatment, or dull winter skin
Why you’ll love it:
Provides immediate plumping and hydration
Helps repair and strengthen the skin barrier
Leaves skin visibly smoother, calmer, and more radiant
* Includes 5 Masques per box
This luxurious biocellulose Masque instantly provides a boost of long-lasting hydration and moisture, making the skin appear more radiant and luminous in minutes. The perfect at home treatment mask delivers deeply penetrating hydration and long-lasting moisture with calming, smoothing effects, along with diminishing the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, resulting in a radiant, healthy-looking skin.
Benefits:
Anti-Wrinkle, Radiant & Even Skin Tone, Soothing, Hydrating & Moisturizing
Soothes and calms red, irritated skin
Reduces the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles
Restores and optimizes skin's natural microbiome
Best for: All skin types, dry skin, post procedure or before a special event for extra glow hydration
How to Use:
After cleansing apply sheet mask to a clean face. Remove the white film and put it directly to the skin, blue side facing up remove the top layer.
Can be used 1-2x / week as needed, post facial treatments to soothe swelling and redness or before a special event.
Why it works: Formulated with hydrolyzed HA, epidermal growth factors, and biome-balancing probiotics, this next-gen treatment masque delivers a restorative infusion of moisture and nutrients deep into the skin for accelerated results. The biocellulose material adheres like a second skin, ensuring maximum absorption and immediate soothing benefits. Ideal after procedures or during periods of sensitivity, it calms irritation, helps rebuild the skin barrier, and leaves skin visibly plumper, smoother, and more radiant.
Key Ingredients:
Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid01
Low molecular weight HA draws moisture deep into the skin for long-lasting hydration, visible plumpness, and increased firmness.
Willow Herb Extract02
A potent antioxidant and anti-inflammatory that helps reduce acne, irritation, and redness for a clearer, healthier-looking complexion.
Allantoin03
Renowned for its soothing and reparative properties, it helps reduce inflammation, promote cell renewal, and smooth skin texture.
Ceramides04
A synergistic blend of skin-identical ceramides that restores the skin’s protective barrier and locks in lasting hydration.
Pre- & Probiotics05
A proprietary blend that helps balance and support the skin’s natural microbiome for improved skin health and resilience.
Chlorella Vulgaris Extract06
Revitalizes and rejuvenates with growth factor-like performance while helping maintain a balanced microbiome for calm, soothed skin.
Complete Ingredients: Water/Aqua/Eau, Butylene Glycol, Glycerin, Sodium Hyaluronate, Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid, Urea, Allantoin, Propanediol, Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer, Arginine, Chlorphenesin, Epilobium Angustifolium Flower/Leaf/Stem Extract, Disodium EDTA, Sodium Polyacrylate, Polyglyceryl-4 Caprate, Phenoxyethanol, Polyquaternium-51, Sodium Lauroyl Lactylate, Sodium Polyglutamate, 1,2-Hexanediol, Bifida Ferment Lysate, Lactobacillus Ferment Lysate, Lactococcus Ferment Lysate, Codium Tomentosum Extract, Chlorella Vulgaris Extract, Iodopropynyl Butylcarbamate, Ceramide NP, Lactic Acid, Ceramide AP, Phytosphingosine, Cholesterol, Bis-PEG-18 Methyl Ether Dimethyl Silane, Xanthan Gum, Carbomer, Ethylhexylglycerin, Tocopherol, Sodium Metabisulfite, Ceramide EOP, Oligopeptide-1.
Pro Tips for Staying Hydrated During Winter
Use a Humidifier at Night
Indoor heating removes moisture from the air, which can quickly dehydrate your skin overnight. Using a humidifier while you sleep helps maintain hydration and keeps your skin calm and plump.
Avoid Letting Car Heaters Blow Directly on Your Face
Car heaters may feel cozy, but they blow extremely dry air directly onto your skin, causing moisture loss. Aim vents away from your face or preferably just at your feet to protect your skin barrier.
Product Spotlights
Face Reality Creamy Cleanser
Why it’s perfect for winter:
This gentle, non-stripping cleanser removes impurities while maintaining your moisture barrier. It leaves skin feeling soft, balanced, and comfortable — never tight.
Best for: Dry, sensitive, acne-prone, or dehydrated skin
Why you’ll love it: Creamy texture, barrier-safe, ideal for seasonal transitions
*Stacey’s favorite morning cleanser
Comfort skin with this indulgently creamy cleanser that leaves your skin feeling soft and clean. This gentle formula cleanses, calms, and hydrates skin while supporting a healthy moisture barrier and microbiome, all key elements to achieving and maintaining clear skin.
A gentle but powerful cleanser developed specifically for the needs of acne- prone skin. Our creamy cleanser calms, soothes, and hydrates the skin while supporting a healthy microbiome—one of the keys to getting clear skin. An empowering new way to cleanse when your skin needs a super hydrating boost.
Best for:
Appropriate for all skin types
Ideal for dry skin, sensitive skin, or mature skin types
Anyone with an impaired barrier
Benefits:
Effectively cleanses and removes daily makeup, dirt and impurities
Leaves skin feeling clean, comfortable and lightly hydrated without an oily or greasy residue
Soothes skin, supports the skin’s microbiome, and maintains the natural moisture barrier
Healthier skin barrier and microbiome should lead to better performance of active products and treatments, and in turn, improve clear time
Creamy, non-lathering texture
How To Use:
Apply a nickel size amount to damp skin and massage with fingertips. Rinse off thoroughly with tepid water
For heavier makeup removal, apply to damp skin, massage thoroughly until makeup is dissolved, then use cotton pad to wipe off before rinsing skin.
May be alternated with Ultra Gentle Gel Cleanser – Use one in the morning and the other in the evening
May be used in place of Ultra Gentle Gel Cleanser or when skin is drier and more sensitive, like winter months; or if barrier becomes disrupted (over-use of actives, post-peel)
May be used for facial massage, including gua sha/roller before rinsing
Key Ingredients:
AMINO ACID CLEANSING AGENT:
Sweeps away dirt, oil, and everyday makeup without drying or disrupting the skin barrier.
PREBIOTICS:
Supports a healthy and balanced microbiome.
HYDRATING AND SOOTHING BLEND:
Helps calm skin and supports a healthy skin barrier with Bisabolol, Panthenol, Centella Asiatica and Jojoba.
Complete Ingredients: Aqua (Water), Sodium Stearoyl Glutamate, Glyceryl Stearate, Stearic Acid, Cocamidopropyl Betaine, Glycerin, Polyacrylate Crosspolymer-6, Cetyl Alcohol, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Panthenol (D), Inulin, Hydrolyzed Jojoba Esters, Saccharide Isomerate, Allantoin, Bisabolol (L-alpha), Alpha-Glucan Oligosaccharide, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice Powder, Centella Asiatica (Gotu Kola) Leaf Extract, Xanthan Gum, Phenoxyethanol, Ethylhexylglycerin, Sodium Hydroxide, Potassium Sorbate, Sodium Gluconate , Citric Acid, Sodium Citrate
Hydrinity Restorative Serum
Why it’s a winter essential:
This serum delivers intense hydration using advanced moisture-binding technology to help skin stay plump and nourished throughout dry winter days.
Best for: Dehydrated, irritated, or barrier-compromised skin
Why you’ll love it: Lightweight, calming, deeply hydrating, and glow-boosting
*Stacey’s favorite product
This silky serum helps encourage moisture renewal while stimulating your skin's natural recovery process. Naturally derived using a proprietary process, the supercharged Hyaluronic Acid-based formula helps strengthen the skin's protective moisture barrier, evens out skin tone and smooths texture. Meanwhile, a powerful combination of 6 plant extracts and peptides helps dramatically improve hydration, skin recovery and overall appearance. Free of toxic chemicals, synthetic antibiotics and petrolatum, this rejuvenating serum hydrates and soothes, leaving skin soft, refreshed and more resilient with continued use.
Enhance hydration, brightness, and luminosity while improving texture and accelerating the healing of delicate, compromised skin.
Key Benefits:
Supercharged HA
Barrier repair
Dermatologist approved
Clinically tested
Best for: All skin types, including sensitive and post-procedure skin. Anti-inflammatory skin conditions
About: Powered by our Supercharged Hyaluronic Acid and proprietary PPM6 Technology™, potent peptides and antioxidants help neutralize free radicals and support optimal moisture levels. This gentle, soothing formula is clinically proven to reduce inflammation and stimulate the skin’s natural recovery process—dramatically improving hydration to help skin recover and repair more quickly.
Non-greasy, non-comedogenic, and dermatologist tested, this formula is safe and soothing for even the most sensitive skin including post-procedure. Free of toxic chemicals, synthetic antibiotics, and petrolatum.
How to Use: After cleansing, apply to face and neck morning and evening.
Clinical Results:
Clinically proven to make a visible difference, fast. Users saw noticeable skin improvements in as little as two weeks.
*Individual results may vary.
280% Increase in accelerated healing on day 1
200% Firmer looking skin and less visible pores
61% Improvement in smoothness within 1 week
Why it Works: It all starts with our Supercharged Hyaluronic Acid
Our pure, potent, and precise HA rapidly kickstarts collagen and elastin production, delivering deep hydration above and below the skin’s surface — while acting as a powerful delivery system for accelerated results.
Key Ingredients:
Microalgae Extract
Helps fight environmental stressors while nourishing, renewing, firming, and detoxifying skin.
Kakadu Plum
Helps fight free radicals and supports skin clarity.
Bisabolol
Helps fade scars, calm blemishes, strengthen skin, reduce flaking, and restore suppleness.
Agastache Mexicana
Helps reduce inflammation and redness, restore barrier function, and prevent new pigment formation.
Hexapeptide Leaf Extract
Enhances skin’s lasting elasticity, firmness, and overall health.
Ginger Root Extract
Soothes irritation, reduces redness, and protects against environmental damage.
Complete Ingredients: Water/Aqua/Eau, Hyaluronic Acid, Dimethicone, Glycerin, Propanediol, Butylene Glycol, Nicotiana Benthamiana Hexapeptide-40 sh-Polypeptide-76, Algae Extract, Zingiber Officinale (Ginger) Root Extract, Agastache Mexicana Flower/Leaf/Stem Extract, Terminalia Ferdinandiana Fruit Extract, Bisabolol, Pullulan, Tetrasodium Glutamate Diacetate, Carbomer, Dimethicone Crosspolymer, C13-14 Isoparaffin, Laureth-7, Polyacrylamide, Sodium Hydroxide, Chlorphenesin, Caprylyl Glycol, Phenoxyethanol.
Hydrinity Hydri-C Moisturizer
Why you need it this season:
This moisturizer locks in hydration while supporting barrier repair, making it ideal for winter’s cooler, drier climate.
Best for: Normal to dry skin types
Why you’ll love it: Silky texture, long-lasting moisture, radiant finish
This intensely hydrating mask is infused with ultra-soothing ingredients that contains moisturizing and calming properties. This gentle formula in hydrating and leaves the skin feeling revitalized. It is appropriate for all skin types, especially dry and dehydrated.
Benefits:
- Hydrating
- Soothing
- Moisturizing
How to use: Apply to clean face and neck. Leave on 10 to 15 minutes and remove.
Ingredients: Aqua (Water), Glycerin, Propanediol, Butylene Glycol, Pentylene Glycol, Squalane, Carbomer, Lonicera Japonica (Honeysuckle) Flower Extract, Hydroxypropyl Starch Phosphate, Benzyl Alcohol, Hydrolyzed Jojoba Esters, Lonicera Caprifolium (Honeysuckle) Flower Extract, Alcohol Denat., Agave Tequilana (Blue Agave) Leaf Extract, Bisabolol (L-alpha), Allantoin, Sodium Gluconate, Caprylhydroxamic Acid, Totarol, Sodium Hyaluronate (L), Mirabilis Jalapa Flower/Leaf/Stem Extract, Phenethyl Alcohol, Caprylyl Glycol, Potassium Sorbate, Beta-Glucan (D)
*Stacey’s favorite moisturizer
This breakthrough dual-action Vitamin C moisturizer utilizes our new, patented, and clinically proven MicroFusion Technology™ to attract and transport active ingredients deep into the dermal layer where they are needed the most.
About:
MicroFusion Technology uses a patented molecule to penetrate deep into the dermal layer delivering a potent but gentle form of Vitamin C along with other powerful actives and is suitable for all skin types. In as little as 2-weeks, HYDRI-C provides powerful antioxidant protection, helps stimulate collagen production, reduces wrinkles, brightens skin, improves elasticity and helps to reduce blemishes.
How to use:
After cleansing, apply 1 to 2 pumps to the face, neck, and décolleté morning and evening. Apply before sunscreen in the morning.
Key Ingredients:
Tetrahexyldecyl Ascorbate
A highly stable, oil-soluble form of vitamin C known for its antioxidant properties, ability to brighten and even skin tone, and support collagen production.
Kakadu Plum Extract
This native Australian plant rich in skin rejuvenating and repairing vitamin C, helps fight free radicals.
Green Tea Extract
Loaded with antioxidant properties, this potent extract helps increase cutaneous microcirculation, activates cellular renewal, and helps protect the skin from environmental stressors.
Jojoba Seed Oil
Extracted from the Jojoba plant, this soothing oil closely matches our own natural sebum. As a rich source of fatty acids and antioxidants, it enhances skin’s restorative properties and provides skin soothing benefits.
3rd Generation Squalane
A lightweight, non-comedogenic oil that effectively hydrates and balances the skin’s moisture levels while also helping to improve skin texture and appearance.
Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea Butter) Oil
A rich emollient that forms a nourishing barrier to help reduce water loss (TEWL). Contains high levels of vitamins and fatty acids to help improve elasticity and restore dry, dehydrated skin.
Complete Ingredients: Water/Aqua/Eau, Tetrahexyldecyl Ascorbate, Squalane, Polyglyceryl-6 Distearate, Glycerin, Stearyl Alcohol, Fulvic Acid, Raphanus Sativus (Radish) Root Extract, Cetyl Alcohol, Jojoba Esters, Butyrospermum Parkii Oil, Dimethicone, Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Extract, Bisabolol, Pullulan, Sodium Hyaluronate, Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract, Terminalia Ferdinandiana Fruit Extract, Ethylhexylglycerin, Tocopherol, Helianthus Annuus Oil, Sodium Acrylates Copolymer, Polyglyceryl-3 Beeswax, Lecithin, Saccharide Isomerate, Xanthan Gum, Limonene, Sclerotium Gum, Phenoxyethanol, Silica, Sodium Citrate, Citric Acid, Potassium Sorbate, Sodium Benzoate, Myrcene.
GlyMed Oxygen Moisturizer
Why it’s winter-approved:
This oxygen-infused moisturizer helps revive dull, tired skin caused by environmental stress and seasonal dryness.
Best for: Dull, dry, stressed, or environmentally exposed skin
Why you’ll love it: Nourishing, energizing, and hydrating
Winter Lip Care: Don’t Forget Your Lips
The lips are often the first area to show signs of winter dehydration. Cold air, wind, indoor heating, and frequent lip licking can lead to dryness, flaking, and cracking.
Using a targeted lip treatment daily helps protect and restore moisture while keeping lips soft and comfortable all season long.
Hydrinity Lip Luxe Hydrator
Why it’s a winter must-have:
This luxury lip treatment deeply hydrates, smooths, and restores dry winter lips. It delivers long-lasting moisture without feeling sticky, making it perfect for daily wear.
Best for: Dry, chapped, or dehydrated lips
Why you’ll love it:
Deep, long-lasting hydration
Smooths fine lines and texture on the lips
Leaves lips soft, plump, and nourished
Where science meets luxury.
This therapeutic formula features our Supercharged injectable-grade Hyaluronic Acid combined with next-generation HA sphere technology. Experience unmatched hydration, improved natural volume, and visibly healthy lips with a proprietary formula and silky, non-sticky application. A pure lip luxury.
We’ve combined our Supercharged HA with advanced hyaluronic acid microspheres and botanical Konjac glucomannan known for its exceptional ability to attract and absorb water. This proprietary supercharged formula forms a triple-action powerhouse that successfully penetrates the delicate upper layers of lip skin and absorbs and retains water before it can evaporate. Once applied, this rapid absorption creates a smooth and elastic lip surface that looks natural and noticeably youthful and hydrated.
Best for: All skin types, including compromised and post-procedure lips.
How to Use: For optimal results, use 2-3 times daily. Reapply as needed. Use over lip color for added hydration and gloss.
Key Ingredients:
Ricinus Communis (Castor) Seed Oil
This powerful emollient forms the base of LUXE and helps skin retain moisture by preventing water loss through the outer layer of the lips while also promoting deep hydration.
Supercharged HA Spheres
Formulated with our dual-weight, 100% injectable-grade hyaluronic acid combined with next-generation HA sphere technology that provides immediate and long-lasting hydration, while simultaneously helping to generate rapid collagen and elastin production to renew each lip layer for a youthful, natural and refined lip.
Palmitoyl Tripeptide-38
An advanced peptide that promotes collagen synthesis, enhances lip volume and reduces the appearance of fine lines for fuller, smoother and more youthful looking lips.
Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea Butter)
Rich in vitamins A and E and essential fatty acids, shea butter holds intense moisturizing and anti-inflammatory properties making it excellent for soothing, healing and nourishing dry or irritated skin and protecting against environmental damage.
Theobroma Grandiflorum (Cupuacu) Seed Butter
A rich antioxidant that helps protect lips from environmental damage while deeply nourishing and hydrating lips for long-lasting moisture, softness and supple texture.
Mauritia Flexuosa Fruit Oil
Derived from the buriti palm, this fruit oil is a robust source of antioxidants vitamin E and vitamin C. Powerful skin-softening properties help delay premature signs of aging.
Portulaca Pilosa Extract
Valued for its hydrating properties, this potent plant-based antioxidant is an excellent source of polysaccharides that help maintain moisture balance and help protect against environmental stressors.
Complete Ingredients: Ricinus Communis (Castor) Seed Oil, C12-18 Alkanoyl Glycerin/Sebacic Acid Copolymer, Hydrogenated Castor Oil, Copernicia Cerifera (Carnauba) Wax, Ethylhexyl Palmitate, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter, Theobroma Grandiflorum Seed Butter, Vanillin, Vitis Vinifera (Grape) Seed Oil, Cetearyl Ethylhexanoate, Water/Aqua/Eau, Sodium Hyaluronate, Hyaluronic Acid, Mauritia Flexuosa Fruit Oil, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-38, Caprylyl Glycol, Tocopherol, Ethylhexylglycerin, Sorbitan Isostearate, Trihydroxystearin, Pentaerythrityl Tetra-di-t-butyl Hydroxyhydrocinnamate, Portulaca Pilosa Extract, Sucrose Cocoate, Glucomannan.
Final Thoughts
Winter is the perfect time to slow down, nourish your skin, and focus on hydration. By making simple adjustments — like switching to a creamy cleanser, layering hydrating serums, using a humidifier, and choosing the right moisturizer — you can protect your skin barrier and maintain a healthy, glowing complexion all season long.
Your winter skincare routine should feel comforting, intentional, and supportive — just like the season itself.
