Dry Skin
 

OK so I did a 30 mile/2 hour ride today. Pretty comfortable 63-68 degrees or so with a slight breeze scattered clouds a good sun. My face is terribly dry. Anyone found anything that works to keep my face from drying out?

Thanks,

Bill

Often dry skin can be a product of poor nutrition. Do you eat healthy balanced diets, without prescription drugs and supplements? Outside this, the typical skin lotions will help a little. I often use chap stick on my lips in the winter, and on dry days during spring and fall. But my skin doesn't seem to get dry unless I ride for 100+ miles on a very dry day. People in the midwest like Oklahoma face more of a challenge with dry skin.

Dry skin can also indicate hypothyroidism.

Try a good sunscreen, such as Neutrogena. Not only will it keep your skin from drying out, it will afford some protection from the sun.

My wife and I ride a lot during the year. Not only do we do a lot of local riding, we do at least one extended tour a year, 1-3 months. The point is: we spend a lot of time in the sun and wind. Neutrogena sunscreen does a good job. My wife also uses the clear zinc oxide ointment on her face.

+1, I recently began using Neutrogena for their face lotion/sun screen, and shave cream. Now my face is much less dry, and not as wind chapped as before. Just a small amoount of the sun screen does the trick for me, and it isn't prone to sweating away easily. I work in construction so I am exposed there, all day, too. It can be painful and the skin cancer risk is high for me.

Bill

I will add.
Not only do I use coconut oil for cooking but on my legs, arms and sometimes my face.
Lately I've been using HempZ body butter on my face, pretty good stuff, well reviewed.
Check out their product line.

I should use sun screen on my nose but when I do it's whitehead village.

All this advice is good but it's always the same as we get older our skin dries faster. We forget the basics, you hydrate your skin from within. Second thing, exfoliate daily or at least 3 times a week, learn to do that correctly use a good lotion nothing fancy find one of those wide brim hats to wear when you can.....
I never have dry skin problems since I learned to hydrate correctly before during and after the ride. I need a well balanced meal with no processed foods no greasy foods and no more sodas..

Hydration is key, always has been..

I watch for wrinkles on the insides of my fingers,,I get wrinkles when I get dehydrated..

After about 60 that bit in our brain that says we're thirsty starts to misfire.
So go but the hydration color chart.

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In the extreme environment of Mountain biking, If I am bellow the red line at the trail head, I go home and ride another day..
And yes when I arrive at the trail head and don't need to pee,,I go home....

Doc says I'm hydrated adequately, but I've had dry skin problems for the past year. What changed? One prescription med: a statin. Since my LDL plunged afterwards and my numbers are good, I'll put up with smearing a little vaseline on my face.

Eucerin does a fairly decent job.

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Wind burn can be mean at any age, again rub a good lotion in daily,,,

As we age every cell in our body deteriorates, as each cell dies the new batch are from the next copy,,degrading each time.

It's just like making a copy of a cassette tape, and making a copy from that copy and a copy from that copy...

That's our cells,, pretty soon the music looses all It's fidelity,,...

Back in my 30s I wore a full-ish beard and would squirt water on it to cool down while biking in the summer. I don't know if that would work in this case.

Just about anything works on my (admittedly oily) skin when it dries out in the winter. Vaseline, hand lotion, etc., but smearing my wife's Ponds cold cream on my face before a ride keeps my face from chapping and seems to add 10 degrees in cold weather. I guess I'm not losing extra skin moisture and evaporative cooling doesn't happen through the Ponds.

Thanks maybe a bit dehydrated. I will also try some the lotions. I usually use sunscreen but I always forget about it this time of year!

Good advice so far. I have incredibly dry, thin skin as did my father so there's a genetic component. I've been steered to 12% ammonium lactate lotion by a series of dermatologists. It works, restores my glow. Available on the web as Amlactin. Neutrogena sunscreen in the day, Amlactin after showers.

For dry skin, besides more hydration you can use a favorite of mine, the coconut oil. It does wonders especially for face, it's a great moisturizer and if you have too much of it, the coconut oil is even edible for cooking (it's organic)

Whatever works , but I would never put straight oil or vaseline on my face. That's just my opinion.
Since I was about twenty I've been using Lubriderm on my skin. I believe it is good stuff. My wife often tells me I look at least ten years younger than other men my age. 62 . Some of that is genetic. Some is diet. Some is taking care of the skin on my face. My hands...that's another story. Almost fifty years of fly fishing, much of it before sunscreens were invented, has taken its toll on my hands. Which my wife sez look 20 years older than I do. ;)

Good quality skin lotions, like Lubriderm and Neutrogena make a difference, IMO.

FWIW, check out Vaseline. It is made from petrolem jelly. As in, a by product of petroleum. Though Vaseline brand is highly refined, I'll save the petroleum products for my bike. Not my face.

For sunscreen, I now use the mechanical methods. Neutrogena Baby stuff. Titanium dioxide. Which I have read does not absorb through your skin like the chemicals in other sun screens.

Eat more eggs,, no they do NOT raise your cholesterol !
If your Doctor tell's you that, You need a new doctor,,, Your Old one Is not updating His knowledge base.

But they are very good for your skin, taste great and best of all they give you an excuse to eat,,,,BACON !

Smart man you are,, Now, If I can just make a note of this and,,,,not loose the note..

Despite my age, I don't have dry skin issues, but I do often come home from a ride with dry skin. The effects of wind and sun dry it out, and the fine film of sale from evaporated sweat makes it feel far worse than it really is. The remedy is very simple ----> wash my face immediately on coming home from a ride, and give my skin a chance to rebound naturally.

If the sun has gotten to it, I'll use a moisturizer, but that's the exception, not the rule.

Humans are well regulated machines designed for self-maintenance. If you keep moisturing, the skin will reduce the amount of oils it produces naturally and you can become somewhat dependent on moisturizing. So my rule is simple, do nothing for a while and see if my body responds and adapts, and intervene only if/when necessary.

My biggest problem is drying eyes as I age. Spent yesterday in the wind. Not cycling, but kayaking.
Same issue when I ride.
My eyes get sore and tired.