True or False: Misting Your Skin While Flying Helps to Hydrate Your Skin

False! You’ve heard it for years that misting your skin with a hydrating spray while flying will help retain your skin’s moisture when you’re in the drying cabin of an airplane—but this is absolutely incorrect!

While it is true that flying in an airplane will dehydrate the skin, if you mist your skin with a water-based toner, it will attract the water out of your skin and vanish into the dry air. Moisture is like a magnet and attracts other moisture, so it will evaporate right of your skin leaving it dry…

Read why you must use sunscreen when you’re flying in an airplane.

Read a helpful skin care tip for putting moisture back into your skin post-flight.

Note: As I am writing this blog post, I’m on an airplane. I have no lip gloss on and my lips are feeling dry. So I keep licking my lips to get them moist and they are getting drier and drier. By licking my lips, it’s attracting the moisture right out of my lips. Solution? Lip balm, stick or gloss to retain the moisture in my lips. I love our Vibran-C Lip Treatment.