Dry skin can often impact your daily life, whether it’s from seasonal changes or your skin type, no amount of moisturiser seems to help keep your skin’s natural moisture. However, a humidifier can be a tool to incorporate with your beauty regime without having to spend so much.
A beauty hack that’s even shared with Hollywood celebrities, for example Kendall Jenner, Celine Dion and Mariah Carey – who has confessed to sleeping with ‘20 humidifiers around my bed’*- have admitted to using humidifiers to help improve their skin or vocal chords. to help with their skin or with vocal chords.
Humidifiers have been proven to improve your skin, for beauty or against common skin conditions. Together with a good skin care routine, humidifiers are brilliant for the health of your family, comfort in your home and giving you great skin!
How does a humidifier help your skin?
1. It will reduce the appearance of cracked dry skin
The month of July has been the driest since 1911 (source The Times) and with dry weather comes dry skin, causing fine lines and wrinkles. The only way to combat this is by creating a perfect environment inside your home using a humidifier to add moisture to your environment.
The optimal humidity level is between 40%-60%, as having too much moisture can also make your skin more oily or cause breakouts.
2. It can help with skin disorders
Humidifiers are also helpful in alleviating symptoms of eczema or psoriasis, as well as other skin conditions. Psoriasis is an inflammatory skin condition that causes itchy, dry and thick patches of skin. Eczema is a skin condition that causes itchy, red and dry rashes.These conditions often flare up due to dry air and be helped significantly by adding moisture into your environment.
3. It will prevent water loss
Low humidity causes the oils and lipids that the skin cells together to evaporate from the skin’s surface and dissolve the natural barrier against the external environment.
Using a humidifier will prevent water loss by helping to keep your skin balanced and hydrated.
(Trans epidermal water loss, source: Eminence organic)
4. It can prevent viral infections
The air in our homes often contains viruses or bacteria. Influenza viruses thrive in dry-air conditions and can often survive for months on dry surfaces.
‘In winter [in dry air], you are breathing a cocktail of dead cells, mucus and viruses from everyone who has visited the room recently’ – BBC, 2015
According to the American National Library of Medicine, after running a test using a humidifier in a room to measure the rate of survival of viruses in low relative humidity conditions, using a humidifier dramatically decreased the influenza virus survival by 17.5 – 31.6%.
5. It can protect the skin from allergens
Certain humidifiers have a HEPA filter which helps to keep your air clean. The MeacoDeluxe 202 humidifier includes a HEPA/charcoal filter which can retain up to 97.3% of particles 0.3 micrometres and remove odours. From dust mites, to mould spores, the HEPA filter will remove most airborne particles that make allergies worse.
Special features of our Meaco Deluxe 202 humidifier
- An aroma diffuser to give your home a refreshing scent.
- A Mist Level Button which changes the humidification output level.
- On the Cool Mist setting, the low noise level is ≤ 35dB(A), and just ≤ 45dB(A) for the Warm Mist feature.
- Ultraviolet lamp cleans the water before humidification.
- A quiet night mode to help you sleep at night.
Products featured : Meaco Deluxe 202 humidifier
