Do people living in the humid southeast have less issues with dry skin and eczema than people living in the southwest? Or Cold regions, Minnesota etc?

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1. My skin gets much better when I go somewhere tropical.

2. Yep! I grew up in a very humid area and never dealt with dry skin. Moved to Michigan and my hands and feet cause me literal pain if I don’t keep up with moisturizing.

3. IDK but when they come to the southwest, they complain about dry skin, frizzy hair, nosebleeds, dry mouth, etc. I never notice improvements in those areas when I’m in a humid place. Maybe because I’m more focused on my clothes sticking to me.

4. I have never had dry skin problems anywhere in the south or southwest. I looked like a goddamn lizard during the Chicago winter, and my legs bled commonly. If you’re going somewhere cold, take care of your skin!

5. People definitely age better in more humid regions

6. You know it’s kind of wild that I have always heard about people having dried and painful cracked skin during the winter and it has never once happened to me. My skin is the same in the frozen winter as it is in the desert summer or tropical heat.

7. Yes. Also, people that move from the north to the south start to look visibly younger.

8. We have the perfect skins

9. I live in Virginia and have dry skin. Winter makes me skin hurt- have to use Vaseline sometimes

10. It’s nosebleed season in the California desert. It’s so dry.

11. Dry cold winters can be difficult even for normal skin. My skin is normal but gets dried out in winter from all the forced air heat sources, humidifiers are very common in the north in the winter.

12. I’m from the Midwest and deal with eczema, especially in the winter. Strangely when I spent 10 days in the desert in Abu Dhabi it was completely healed by the third day. It came back when I returned to Michigan 🤷🏼‍♀️

13. No matter where I live, my skin is dry. The humidity helps a little, but even here in the swamp, I have to use a non-soap skin cleanser and glop on enough lotion to fill several baskets.

14. Southerner here with eczema and psoriasis. I’ve been to AZ once, couldn’t wait to get home because of how dry it made everything. Flying also exacerbates it.

15. There’s definitely something to it based on where you grew up. I grew up in southern California where it’s very dry, now in Texas during the time of year where it gets very humid (like now) I become a soggy mess. It’s likely because I grew up in a dry environment that my body adapted to generate more oil, so it’s likely the opposite for people who grow up in humid environments.

16. Never lived in another climate, you have to hydrate. It’s extremely easy to see your skin isn’t healthy if you’re dehydrated and it doesn’t take much in the heat.

17. Winters can get pretty dry, it’s the only time I have to use a body lotion.

18. I get eczema because of both dry air and humidity. I deal with eczema no matter the climate or time of year. Sigh.

19. I never in my life did until moving out west.

20. Yes.

    I come from dry-ish Southern California, but then I moved to Las Vegas, Nevada. Vegas makes SoCal (the part closer to the ocean than the NV or AZ line, let’s say) look like the Garden of Eden. That shit dried me out!

    I had to constantly spray saline solution up my nose to keep my sinuses from turning into a box of Triscuits. I also had to invest in goes-on-sheer sunscreen. It’s like cosmetic grade so you’re not all greasy and aromatic like when you’re at the beach. In Vegas drugstores they sell it on prominent racks near the checkout. Without that, you’ll turn into an old catcher’s mitt.

    I’ve always had oily skin. In Vegas I had normal skin. People with normal skin had to struggle to keep from being turned into living mummies. Greaseballs like me were perfectly adapted. If you have dry skin, you’ll pretty much just turn into dust and blow away.

    One time I went to New Orleans in July. It felt *good* to breath. My sinuses have never been clearer, before or since. And even though going around outside felt like being in a steamroom, the sun felt like a gentle kiss compared to the hateful death ray that glares down upon the Mojave with cosmic malevolence.

21. I’ve lived in cold-wet, hot-wet, and hot-dry climates. I can absolutely say that my rashes got much better in warmer and wetter conditions. But my doctor thinks this is partially because when I feel less cold, I’m less likely to take scalding hot showers to compensate, which tends to exacerbate them.

22. Yes. People think I’m nuts because I love the heat and humidity, but it makes my chronically dry skin feel so much better. I have a patch on my leg that I call my lizard skin because it’s perpetually dry and scaly. The only time it goes away is when it’s above 85 and really humid.

23. Yes, but we have really frizzy hair.

24. Yes, I’ve lived both in Colorado and on the Gulf Coast. I deal with more dry cracked skin, dandruff and nosebleeds here in Colorado.

25. I grew up outside Houston (very hot & humid) and has horrific eczema as a kid so can’t say that’s true for everyone.