[personal] AC might be affecting your skin more than you’d think

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I want to preface this post with saying that this is a completely anecdotal, personal experience, but this is something I just realized and I am SHOOK.So normally, I live in central Florida, which is SO hot and humid. Naturally, the AC is cranked up all the time to provide a respite from our sauna like weather. I’ve always considered FL to be such a humid climate and wondered why I was always battling dehydrated skin.For the last few days, I’ve been on vacation in San Francisco and Lake Tahoe. It’s much cooler here, and aside from the fog in SF, it’s quite a bit drier. As I’ve been doing my skincare routine for the last few days, I’ve been noticing my dry-normal skin is much more balanced and supple. Acids have been stinging much less and I’ve noticed I need less moisturizer to feel hydrated.At first, I thought it was the water, but the water here is actually pretty hard and I’ve never really noticed a change in my skin based on water. I did some more thinking and it hit me: the constant AC in Florida was drying out my skin! The cabin in Tahoe doesn’t have AC and the SF hotel room AC wasn’t running due to the cooler temps.For people like me who work/live/spend a bunch of time in air conditioned buildings, I feel like the indoor conditions might affect your skin more so than outdoors. Light moisturizers are always suggested for humid climates, but my skin feels much less dehydrated in northern California without AC than it does in FL. In Florida, I feel like my skin is drier post-cleanse but absolutely MELTS the second I step outdoors.A notable exception to this rule would be to the far extreme of the spectrum in exceptionally humid or dry climates. For example, when I visit desert regions in southern CA, my skin definitely needs more moisture. But for the vast majority of climates in the middle of these extremes, in my experience the AC matters much more. Even though Florida is more humid than northern California, the constant AC indoors dehydrates my skin so much more than the more dry California climate.TLDR: if you spend most of your day indoors and your humid climate is being combatted with AC indoors, you skin might be drier than it would be naturally!
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