From Portugal

Relieve Your Dry Skin By Humidifier
The heater is normally on all day during the winter at many households. This can cause your skin to dry and also create difficult in breathing because of dry nose. You will realise when you blow your nose you will see dry blood coming out. You can open the window or put a wet towel to avoid but do you really want to open the window during the winter? Humidifiers or umidificadores known in Portugal or luftbefeuchter in German can help create that moisture inside your house or room to avoid dry skin.
There are other ways moisturise your skin and one of those is to put cream on your skin twice every day. Firstly apply the cream before going out of the house and then before going to sleep. Spending 7 to 8 hours in the bed sleeping dries your skin especially if you have the heater on. And when you go to work in the morning you are gone for 8 to 10 hours.
As I said earlier no one would like to open the window when the heater is on because you will be wasting the heat. The best humidifier to get is the steam humidifier with vicks, which not only warms the room up but also generates fresh air. That means you don’t have to turn the heater on all day long. You will be saving money and also energy. We all know gas bills in the winter can be very expensive so this is one way to reduce the cost.
Humidifiers has become famous all across the World because the above reasons. The biggest market is obvious Germany and UK but people from other European and South American countries have also started to invest in humidifiers or known as humidificadores as they call it in most South American countries.
Arcade Fire-Wake Up (SBSR 2011)