The Skin Nerd: Step-by-step home skin hydration treatment

Bring your skin back to its bouncy, hydrated self at home.

If you had a skin checklist in front of you that said ‘flakiness, increased appearance of lines, dullness tightness, itchiness’, how many would you have checked off?

My bets are the majority of them, as everyone is going through skin dehydration right now, alongside random breakouts and flare-ups of conditions such as eczema. In a recent column, I covered day-to-day hydration, including investing in a humidifier, upping the fatty acids in your diet and keeping water intake up.