But dehydratedskincan be trickier to identify due in no small part to its similarities todry skin.
However, while the two terms are often treated as synonymous, there are some major differences.
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What Is Dehydrated Skin?
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“Dehydrated” skin means your skin is lacking water.
Your skin can become dehydrated when the body loses more water than it’s taking in.
What Are the Signs of Dehydrated Skin?
Dehydrated skin may appear tight, rough, dry, flaky, or dull.
Just because you have dry skin doesn’t mean you have dehydrated skin, and vice versa.
Dehydrated skin can occur in many skin types, including oily andcombination.
Dry skin is because of a lack of oil or sebum production.
Dry skin can be treated bymoisturizing, whereas dehydrated skin needs hydration.
It could also be itchy, and you might havedark under-eye circles.
One of the best ways to treat dehydrated skin is by upping your water intake.
