For me, I’ve always found that I suffer more acne breakouts in the wintertime.  The air is dryer, your skin tends to get chapped and red anyway, and yes, you can definitely get windburn as opposed to sunburn in the summer.  The sun also reflects off the snow, making sunburns worse.  But if you want to treat acne, obviously you should keep using acne treatments that work and be consistent, extremely consistent.  Maybe add in a mask now and then to help.

But also you have to remember to moisturize.  The big thing to worry about is avoiding that dry and chapped skin, the red skin.  So for starters, wear sunscreen.  Be careful of course as always of the sunscreens that are thick enough to clog pores.  But this will help to protect your skin.

Also, don’t think about necessarily using a thicker moisturizer.  Just use the same moisturizer more often.  Make sure that it doesn’t have nasty preservatives, and I would recommend using a water based moisturizer.  They tend to be light and yet penetrating and effective.  So instead of applying one time per day and thinking it will stick, apply 3 times per day.

And finally, use a night cream.  A night cream is really the repairing element, and while a day cream protects, well a night cream is extremely effective in actually repairing damage such as sun or wind damage and therefore keeping your skin in better shape in general.  It can be thicker, because the pores open more up at night.