Coughing? Sneezing? Got the sniffles? Besides the Green tea and honey you need to start thinking of your skin. Yes, your skin! It's the skin (the largest organ) that is your first line of defense against micro-organisms such as cold and flu causing bacteria, fungi and yeast.

It is time to stop beating up the defense and go on the offensive --sunscreen, moisturizing, exfoliating, and exercising.

Sunscreen:
No matter what your complexion the sun's UV rays has no discrimination any time of the year. The glare from the snow or ice has been know to actually increase the risk of UV damage to unprotected skin – that damage being premature aging (like age spots and wrinkles) and the ever so dreaded skin cancer.

Wear Moisturizer:
Besides the sun your skin is susceptible to wind, heat, cold, pollution (i.e. cigarette smoke). Moisturizer not only, helps get your skin back to a normal level of hydration but acts as a barrier to all the "unavoidable" thrown your way.

Exfoliate:
Properly exfoliated skin is better able to maintain its moisture and removes dead skin cells from the surface of the skin. There is no benefit in dead skin; removing it equals healthier happier skin.

Exercise:
Even if it just for ten minutes a day exercising is important for skin too. The act improves your circulation of blood, which in turn increases the oxygen levels in the skin. Oxygen boots your skin natural strength and elasticity and increases skin renewal.