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We need to fight through winter before warm spring comes. It has been exceptionally cold and dry this winter. Keeping up with good self-care at home is very important for relieving skin irritations due to dryness. All it takes is a little change in your habit to improve irritating skin, and today, we will be discussing on useful self-care tips you can do at home! Moisturizer should be applied in large amounts during winter, especially for your hands, since they get washed more frequently during the day compared to other parts of the body. You can layer moisturizing cream on top of your daily facial cream and it needs to be well absorbed into the skin. We all know hot showers and hot baths are relaxing and nice, especially in cold winter days. However, hot temperature water can take away our natural oil causing over dryness and more irritation. Dead skin cells should be exfoliated with scrubs. For areas like, elbows, knees and feet, where there ar...

Spa is the best way to heal your tired body from this cold winter! So I will continue on the Korean spa recommendation! Open-air spa in the depth of winter,  ‘Resom Spa Castle Chun Chun Hyang’  ‘Resom Spa Castle Chun Chun Hyang’ which is located in Deoksan-myeon, Yesan-gun, Chungcheongnam-do, Korea uses 100% natural thermal water for all of its facilities including various water activity and relaxation facilities. It is very popular between families as the ratio of water activity and spa facilities is 5:5. There are many returning customers at ‘Resom Spa Castle’ as it strictly manages its water quality, temperature and all facilities. Its germanium thermal water is especially good for atopic dermatitis and other diseases such as neuralgia, arthritis, lifestyle disease and skin diseases. Customers can enjoy all outdoor facilities including water slides as they are opened throughout the winter and you can try out more than 20 themed spas indoors. ...

Our body becomes stiff during winter as the cold weather shrinks our body and mind. However if you just stay inside, you may feel unwell. At this stage, you may think of Spa or thermal water. If you breathe in the fresh air with your body surrounded by warm water, you will feel really great. So today, I will introduce famous thermal water & spa attraction that you can reach within 1~2 hours by car if there is no traffic jam. German style spa resort, ‘Icheon Termeden’ Termeden that is located in Icehon, Gyunggi-do has been awarded with the best spa in South Korea in 2016 by Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs. All customers from various age groups can enjoy Termeden as it has alkaline thermal water which is irritation-free. Many couples and families visit here as they have great facilities and beautiful night view. Termeden’s German style Bade Pool is motived by Gereman’s Bade Haus, which allows people to enjoy various ...

Winter has its great beauty of nature that is different from the beauty of summer. However, our body and mind gets cold even before we get to see the beautiful nature and we always turn on our heating devices without hesitation. However our nature gets destroyed and becomes colder as much as our heating device usage. Is there any way to make our nature warmer as much as we do? Increasing sensory temperature with boiling water It is really easy to save our earth while we are feeling warm. It is to use hot-water bottle, and this is ready when you put boiling water into a bottle with cover. You can sleep without heating devices if you put this under your blankets before you go to sleep, or when you are hugging this bottle while you are sleeping. It normally lasts up to 8 hours, and the bottle with more capacity can stay up to 10 hours. Maintain adequate humidity and temperature During winter, humidity decreases as well as the de...

It is easier for our body to become unbalanced during winter as we tend to exercise less due to cold weather as well as eat more and drink more. This year’s cold is predicted to be colder than last year and your body condition may become worse if you just stay inside all day. So today, we are going to have a look at some health management method that will maintain us healthy during this winter. Ventilate the air every 1-2 hours. It is easy to get diseases on respiratory system such as cold because we tend to focus on indoor activities where assorted dusts, viruses and wastes flow around. Thus it is ideal to fill indoor with fresh air by ventilating at least every 1-2 hours. Drink adequate amount of water, at least 1.5L a day. It becomes really dry indoor when heaters are on which can make it easier for our body to get respiratory diseases as the mucous membrane on our nose and bronchial tubes, the first barrier of our body that protect us from w...

I think there are many people who are thinking that they can hide their body under thick clothes as the winter is coming soon. However, you may find that you don’t fit into your clothes anymore when it actually gets into winter! Are you aware that diet during winter is more effective? There are many people who are putting off diet until right before the summer as the vitality decreases during winter due to its extremely cold weather. However winter actually is the best season for diet! Our muscle tries to heat up our body by contracting itself to overcome the cold weather. During this process, there is increase in the energy consumption or the reduction of body fat which increases basal metabolism rate in 10% compare to hot summer. Increase in basal metabolism means that there will be more energy consumption even with small movement. Thus I think winter is the best season to success on diet effectively. Then let’s go and find the way of diet during winter! ...