Winter skin: the natural routine I recommend to anyone who really lives the cold

Winter skin: the natural routine I recommend to anyone who really lives the cold

In winter your skin doesn’t ask for more, it asks for better. When the warmth of the house meets the frost of the yard, you don’t need ten steps but a few right gestures, made with ingredients that taste of the mountains. Here’s what I use, product by product, and how to put it together into a routine you’ll actually do.

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A few gestures, the right ones: a method for winter skin

Fewer steps, more substance: where I start

In the Orobie Alps, cold isn’t an idea. It’s the temperature swings, from the stove to the yard and back, that test your skin: it tightens, chaps, sometimes cracks. Hands and lips notice first.

Between work and three children, I’ve learned that a routine only counts if you do it every day. My method is this: few products, natural ones, each able to do more than one thing. My advice to everyone is to start there.

Capra Orobica milk: an ancient breed in every jar

Almost everything I use on my face and body contains fresh Capra Orobica goat’s milk, rich in proteins, minerals and vitamins, and suitable even for the most sensitive skin. It isn’t a label detail. For over thirty years we’ve raised ancient breeds such as the Capra Orobica goat and the Bruna Alpina Originale cow, now endangered because they produce little. From their milk, combined with plant extracts, come our Orobic Milk Beauty and Hell’s Valley Essence lines. Every cream is a way of keeping an animal, a pasture and a farming know-how alive.

Mornings in four moves: serum, cream, hands, lips

Start with the Luminus serum, on clean skin before your cream. It has a light, fluid texture, with vitamin C and low molecular weight hyaluronic acid, and it evens out and brightens the complexion.

Then the cream. Spring Fontanì is the choice for dry, dull skin: Capra Orobica milk, rice bran oil, organic aloe and rosehip, and it’s fine around the eyes too. If your skin is combination or oily, choose La pressiusa SPF 6: soft, anti-ageing, brightening and firming, with a mineral filter that gives SPF 6 protection.

The last two moves are for the parts the cold bites first. Ma Nilla goes on your hands morning and evening and whenever you need it: it softens, heals the small cuts caused by weather, work and washing, and isn’t greasy. Boter Ciock goes on your lips several times a day, even when you don’t feel the need.

Evenings: cleanse, nourish, protect

Start by taking the day off your face. Moonlight Basi is a cleansing milk that gently cleanses, removes make-up and hydrates, suitable for all skin types and for daily use. Rinse with lukewarm water: it doesn’t sting the eyes.

Then you can choose: Spring Fontanì again on your face, or Setus, an ivy-based dry oil for body and face. It nourishes and tones, absorbs without greasiness and leaves a naturally radiant finish.

In the shower I recommend Mastel Fresh, the liquid soap that respects the skin’s natural pH and is suitable for children too. Afterwards, Body Lacc: the body lotion with hawthorn and St John’s wort that restores hydration and elasticity, and can also be used on little ones.

Forest oils: when the day asks for something more

When you need something extra, the forest steps in. Strach Rouge is made with red spruce essential oil, with a balsamic scent, for relaxing massages. It comes from forest management, where spruces are cut once every ten years. Abete Blanc uses silver fir from Val d’Inferno, for tired muscles and relaxing massages. Arnica Take Care is an arnica oil made from flowers hand-picked in July between 1,500 and 2,000 metres, for tired legs and muscles after a day on your feet.

And for your hair, which the winter hairdryer doesn’t spare, Sulshine: a goat’s milk heat protector to apply to the lengths of freshly washed hair, before styling.

The perfect mini winter routine: all in one table

A mountain method: care as a daily gesture

A good routine isn’t measured in products but in consistency: a few gestures, repeated every day, with ingredients that have a name and a place. Arnica picked by hand, a fir from Val d’Inferno, the milk of a goat we risk losing. Caring for your skin is like caring for a pasture: you don’t need grand gestures, you need to come back every day.

And if you want to give a gift, there’s the Se l’è bela box: inside you’ll find Ma Nilla, Luminus, Setus, Boter Ciock and the Ferdy Wild pouch. A cosmetics concept rooted in farming know-how, which lets us raise ancient breeds and believe in our cultural heritage.

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