Skin Care Tips

Skin Care Tips:

1. Dry Skin
You tend to have dry, tight, flaky skin due to underproductive oil glands. For some people this means less acne.
PLAN: Wash your face once or twice a day with a mild cleanser (nothing that calls itself 'soap'), but 'cleansing or beauty bar'. Soaps have too much detergent in them for your skin. Use a Sensitive Skin Bar or Sensitive Skin Face Wash. Follow this up with an oil-free moisturizer. If it has a sunscreen, better yet, but that in the morning.

2. Oily Skin
Your oil glands are working overtime. Your skin is shiny and your pores tend to get clogged, causing blackheads, whiteheads and zits.
PLAN: Wash your face twice a day with a medicated cleanser, the gels seem to work better. Then use a toner or witch hazel. For acne use: 2.5 % benzoyl peroxide lotion (the generic brands work fine). If it dries your skin, take some days off from using it. Don't use the 5% or 10% benzoyl peroxide.

3. Combination Skin
This is what most of us have. Your T-zone is oily, while your eye area, cheeks and sometimes neck are dry.
PLAN: If you could spend the time and the money you should use different products for the different areas. BUT, it's simpler to use one cleanser. Wash once or twice a day with a mild milky or exfoliating cleanser. Use an alcohol-free toner that contains some salicylic acid to the T-zone and a 2.5% benzoyl peroxide to the oily areas at night. Use an oil-free moisturizing lotion on your dry areas.

4. Normal Skin
Lucky you! You may tend to get zits before your period if you are female.
PLAN: Wash your face twice a day with a mild cleanser. You may want to use a moisturizing lotion. If it seems to cause you to breakout, stop using any moisturizer. You may not need it.

Healthy Skin Tips

Keeping your skin healthy is your first line of defense against skin fitness.

Daily bathing. Make sure the temperature of your bath or shower is lukewarm, not hot. When drying off, it is important to pat, not rub, the skin. Rubbing will eliminate moisture on the skin and increase irritation.

Moisturize, moisturize, moisturize. Apply moisturizer while your skin is still damp. This will lock in the moisture and keep the skin from drying out. Reapply moisturizer throughout the day as needed.

Avoid irritants. Soaps, perfumes, and laundry detergents can irritate the skin and cause itching. Use the mildest soaps possible and only apply to areas of the body that are visibly dirty or prone to odor. Avoid perfumes and colognes that dry and irritate the skin. In the laundry, use a second rinse cycle to help rinse out irritating detergents from clothing.

Dress comfortably. Choose clothing that is soft and breathable. Loose, cotton clothes are the best choice. In the winter, clothing should be loose and layered to minimize the drying effects of the cold weather. Fabrics like wool, nylon, and polyester may be extremely irritating and can worsen the itch-scratch cycle of eczema. Also, certain dyes in clothes may irritate the skin.

Reduce perspiration. Keeping the house at a moderate temperature can help minimize sweating during hot or cold weather. Layer light blankets to avoid night sweating. And remember to bathe and apply moisturizer as soon as possible after exercising.

Minimize stress. Emotional stresses, such as anger, frustration, and embarrassment, may cause outbreaks of eczema. As outbreaks often create a great deal of stress themselves, this can create a very frustrating cycle, especially for children. The key to reducing stress-related outbreaks is to recognize what factors induce stress and reduce them through counseling and stress-management techniques.

Source: http://www.protopic.com

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