Winter Leg Care: Dry & Cramp Legs

In winters, our skin gets drier and muscles get tighter. This means our legs need extra attention and care during the winter months.

If you’ve also noticed leg cramps. It is common in many people and can be exacerbated by the cold.

Read over these helpful tips your legs will love.

Combat Dry Skin:

Reduce Shower Time Hot showers dry out your skin even more.

Reduce the amount of time you spend in a hot shower or bath by half.

Try to keep your shower time to 10-15 minutes or less.

Use Gentle Cleansers Certain products disrupts the skin’s ability to maintain a healthy pH level, avoid them!

Many soaps or body washes score over eight on the pH scale. Use products with pH between 4.7 and 6.0 Wrong type of cleansers can make the skin on your legs is dry, flaky, itchy, and inflamed.

Exfoliate One of the most important tips for having smooth, healthy skin is exfoliation.

Exfoliation is the removal of dead skin cells from the surface of our skin.

Don’t exfoliate more than once a week as it can be too harsh for your skin.

Moisturize Our skin needs to retain moisture to function properly.

Skin oils, like baby oil, also act as a protective barrier between dry air and our skin.

Try rubbing a few drops of baby oil on your legs after a shower.

Combat Leg Cramps:

Basic Leg Scissors

Lie on a mat and relax your back enough to feel the length of your spine against it.

Raise your right leg slightly higher than the left leg. Then, lower your left leg down to the mat as you raise your right leg three or four inches higher.

Try doing these daily for at least 15 minutes.

Squat Rotations

You’ll need a light medicine ball or any small.

Stand tall with feet hip-width apart and hold the ball in your hands. Keep your chest up, back flat, and your body weight on your heels.Twist your torso while bringing the ball down to the outside of your left foot. Repeat on the right side.

Do 10 reps on each side.

Stationary Single Leg Holds

Keep your knees close, pull your left leg behind your body with your left hand.

Once you feel balanced, lift your right arm overhead.

Try to keep as straight you can while holding this position. Release and switch legs after 10 counts Repeat three times on both sides.

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