Oily skin.
Dry skin.
Combination skin.
Normal skin. #skinherball
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1. Wash it. 2. Apply nothing. 3. Wait an hour. 4. See what happens.
Oily is blotable. Dry is dull. Normal is supple. Combination is any variety of the main 3.
Sensitive is also a skin type but I would advise you get professional perspective as it might just be Sensitized.
The above description is a good way to know your skin type.
Which one are you?
See your respective skin routines:
Oily skin: cleanse morning and night with a cleanser containing salicylic acid.
- use a toner containing either lactic acid, glycolic acid or salicylic acid.
- Treat your skin to control oiliness and breakouts, using sulfur lotion
And CeraVe healing ointment.
- apply a water based moisturizer or any moisturizer formulated for acne prone skin.
Dry skin: cleanse your face
- Apply serum.
- moisturize your face.
- apply sunscreen. Neutrogena hydro boost sunscreen is tinted and doesn't leave your face white.
At night:
- cleanse your face.
- Exfoliate your skin (three times a week)
- apply serum.
- Go and sleep
Combination skin(some parts are oily and some parts dry):
- use a gentle cleanser twice a day.
- apply serum
- Exfoliate thrice a week.
- apply an oil free moisturizer.
- stop touching your face (this applies to all skin type)
- apply sunscreen. I love Neutrogena
Hydro boost sunscreen.
Normal skin:
- cleanse twice a day.
- apply serum.
- moisturize.
- Exfoliate thrice a week.
- apply sunscreen.
All of these routines should be carried out down to your neck.
For the sunscreen, apply in exposed areas of your body as well.
Generally, pay attention to your skin, and observe differences and changes that happen to it.
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The ordinary glycolic acid toning solution has got 7% glycolic acid.
Now the brand says it's a toner, and should be used once daily.
That's dangerous because there's nothing toning in the toner. You're just going to over exfoliate your skin and it's trouble.
Now I think Neutrogena has got a facial scrub as well. People just go to the shelf and assume that because the reputable brand writes FACIAL on it, so it's ideal to use on the face. That also wrong and it's a lie.
It's absolutely hypocrisy if you undermine organic skincare vendors by saying because no proper public orientation about how their products are formulated, they become fake but still go ahead to buy a facial scrub from Neutrogena, because they're popular and it's imported.
You're probably a new follower if you still use scrubs on your face as an Exfoliant.
You probably assume your dead skin cells are like a mask covering your face, and you need to scrub it off.
In this place, we Exfoliate chemically not with scrubs.
Chemical Exfoliation is superb because it not only targets our dead skin cells, they also help improve skin concerns. You can't treat acne by using a scrub. That's a big scam, but you can treat acne by Exfoliating with a BHA or an AHA.
So now, chemical exfoliants are categorized into two.
1. AHA: alpha hydroxy acids; they include Glycolic acid or mandelic acid or lactic acid. These are the most common in skincare.
Glycolic acid has tiny molecules and penetrates the skin deeper. And can help improve
1. If your Cleanser contains alcohol denat or isopropyl alcohol, it's drying and not good for your skin.
2. Witch hazel or anything astringent related aren't good for your skin due to their stripping effects.
3. Cleanse for 60sec.
4. If you've got inflammation concerns, cleanse for less time, maybe 30 secs, and do it only once daily at night. You can wash your face with just clean water when you wake up in the morning.
5. Cleanse properly and focus on the areas around your nose.
6. If you've got oily skin, going for a stripping Cleanser which mostly contains drying alcohols like the ones mentioned above will only worsen your oily skin — puts a strain on your sebaceous glands.
Stick to gentle foaming or lotion or gel cleansers.
Skincare ingredients you can use or avoid when pregnant✨ [share to someone]
1. Retinol/Retinoids are superior ingredients in skincare and should be treated with respect at all times. They're vitamin A derivatives and should be avoided during pregnancy or while nursing.
2. Benzoyl peroxide is an excellent ingredient to combat pimples that appear "ear and dear" and should be great to use even when pregnant, but stick to 5% or less, so that junior can continue to kick harder and score goals.
3. Don't use skin brighteners that contain hydroquinone. This is common. Very common. Pregnant/nursing mom's bleaching their skin with steroids and high doses of hydroquinone because they want to look like Kim Kardashian.
Ingredients/products I really trust can help your inflammed pimples:
1. Benzoyl peroxide, sulfur, differin/adapalene gel
2. Lots of Hydration & anti-inflammatory: snail mucin, niacinamide.
3. Exfoliation: mandelic acid serums.
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Relating products:
The @cerave 4% benzoyl peroxide cream cleanser. Great for people with (nodules, pastules, cysts) I suggest you alternate with a gentle cleanser.
A benzoyl peroxide spot treatment of 5% will also do your acnes good.
For hormonal acne or any inflammed acnes, sulfur is more efficient and gentler than benzoyl peroxide as benzoyl can be drying for most people. Sulfur works by sucking out excess sebum. Not to look far, @Viviglowskin sulfur clay mask is affordable and will do a lot on your skin.