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My hydration secret is I have someone give it to me in a basket everyday and if I don’t put the lotion on my skin I get the hose again.
So that takes care of showering too! Awesome life-hack!
And I bet the rent is cheap.
It gets easier to remember when you get dependent on it and your hands hurt if you don’t put lotion on them. That might just be because I live in a desert, though.
Same, desert folk checking in. My hands THIRST for lotion.
A valid point, but this study tested forearms. Most of us wash our hands multiple times a day, wiping off natural oils and dehydrating our skin. We don’t do that with forearms. If we agree the benefits of handwashing outweigh the dehydration, it’s probably better to offset the dehydration with moisturizers.
Moisturizers are often used in the prevention and treatment of irritant contact dermatitis. The present study was to determine whether long-term daily use of a moisturizer on normal skin would affect skin barrier function, hydration state, or susceptibility to sodium lauryl sulphate. Healthy volunteers used a moisturizer on one forearm 3 times daily for 4 weeks. The other forearm served as a control. Afterwards both forearms were challenged with a patch-test of sodium lauryl sulphate. Skin barrier function was evaluated by measuring trans-epidermal water loss and skin hydration by measuring electrical capacitance. Electrical capacitance was significantly increased on the treated arm during the treatment period. After challenge with sodium lauryl sulphate, transepidermal water loss was significantly higher on the arm treated with moisturizer than on the control arm. The results suggest that long-term treatment with moisturizers on normal skin may increase skin susceptibility to irritants.
Or somewhere cold. Or if you wash your hands frequently.
Repetition and consistency
Do it every time you remember and don’t torture yourself if you forget. Force yourself at first and set up reminders, post-it notes, alarms, whatever.
At first you’ll be annoyed, you may even feel dumb but after a month or two it will become habit and you’ll forget less and less … after a few more months it will become automatic… after a few years you’ll become so attached to whatever it is you’ll feel strange not doing it.
It’s how I maintained daily journal writing for so many years. Don’t get me wrong, years ago I was sporadic and did an entry once a week, sometimes once a month or skipped an entire summer but now I do it every day. Some days my entries are long, some days I only write a sentence or two but I always get myself to record something every time.
Now I feel strange when I don’t fill in my daily writeup.
I was so bad at self-care for this exact reason until I started using the Finch app. Now, I have to keep up with it to make my birb grow and thrive. I even got three friends to use it, and now we are all addicted to self-care. Amazing how we are more interested in taking care of a cartoon bird more than ourselves.
