Knowing Your Skin Type for Optimum Skin Care
Of course, we all know that the skin is the largest organ of the body and yet most of us do not do enough measures to maintain our skin's health.
Based from statistics, people spend millions on body products every month, but are they buying the right product to cater their skin care needs? How much do you really know about what your skin needs and what type of skin you have? One of your skin's functions is to eradicate body's waste products by means of sweating.
If toxins get away through the complexion they disturb the skin's health integrity.
This is one of the key reasons behind many complexion problems including wrinkles, acne and some aging spots.
Our skin also "breathes".
If ever that the pores become clogged, the microorganisms that are involved in causing skin disorder flourish.
Good looking skin is an amazing thing to have because it is right there on your face that is most prominent that everyone can notice.
The skin also protects our bodies from the outside damaging factors.
Most of us do not think our skin is so good looking.
Even if you were born with an ideal complexion, or one that is not so good, you should still make an effort to take care of it appropriately.
When you are going through maturity, your body is trying to adjust to changes in the hormonal balance, and this affects your complexion at a long run.
Below are the three basic complexion types.
Most skin is a mixture of these types and yours will be no exemption.
The basic skin types are dry, oily, and combination.
Dark skins have a possibility towards superior extremes of dryness and oiliness than lighter skins.
1.
Oily skin - You can actually tell if your skin is oily because it typically has a shine to it.
Oily skin contains plenty of sebum which helps avoid the skin from drying out.
However, oily skin tends to draw more dirt and dust than dry skin.
It benefits from soap and water, so washing with a cleansing bar is an ideal way of caring for it.
2.
Dry skin looks dry, flaky, and feels tight especially if you have washed it just recently with soap and water.
Sometimes it is lacking some of the protective sebum and so it reacts to very hot and very cold weather by contracting up.
One advantage of dry skin is that it is less likely to develop acne than oily skin, but it is easily chapped in a dry environment.
3.
Combination skin - Most of us have this skin type.
Ideally, you should have a specific product for the oily areas and one for the dry areas, but this is costly and unnecessary unless the areas of dry and oily are very different.
It is better to use a cleanser intended for combination skin.
Use a skin cleanser for the central oily panel, diluted with water for the drier areas.
The drier areas may or may not need moisturizing often.
Based from statistics, people spend millions on body products every month, but are they buying the right product to cater their skin care needs? How much do you really know about what your skin needs and what type of skin you have? One of your skin's functions is to eradicate body's waste products by means of sweating.
If toxins get away through the complexion they disturb the skin's health integrity.
This is one of the key reasons behind many complexion problems including wrinkles, acne and some aging spots.
Our skin also "breathes".
If ever that the pores become clogged, the microorganisms that are involved in causing skin disorder flourish.
Good looking skin is an amazing thing to have because it is right there on your face that is most prominent that everyone can notice.
The skin also protects our bodies from the outside damaging factors.
Most of us do not think our skin is so good looking.
Even if you were born with an ideal complexion, or one that is not so good, you should still make an effort to take care of it appropriately.
When you are going through maturity, your body is trying to adjust to changes in the hormonal balance, and this affects your complexion at a long run.
Below are the three basic complexion types.
Most skin is a mixture of these types and yours will be no exemption.
The basic skin types are dry, oily, and combination.
Dark skins have a possibility towards superior extremes of dryness and oiliness than lighter skins.
1.
Oily skin - You can actually tell if your skin is oily because it typically has a shine to it.
Oily skin contains plenty of sebum which helps avoid the skin from drying out.
However, oily skin tends to draw more dirt and dust than dry skin.
It benefits from soap and water, so washing with a cleansing bar is an ideal way of caring for it.
2.
Dry skin looks dry, flaky, and feels tight especially if you have washed it just recently with soap and water.
Sometimes it is lacking some of the protective sebum and so it reacts to very hot and very cold weather by contracting up.
One advantage of dry skin is that it is less likely to develop acne than oily skin, but it is easily chapped in a dry environment.
3.
Combination skin - Most of us have this skin type.
Ideally, you should have a specific product for the oily areas and one for the dry areas, but this is costly and unnecessary unless the areas of dry and oily are very different.
It is better to use a cleanser intended for combination skin.
Use a skin cleanser for the central oily panel, diluted with water for the drier areas.
The drier areas may or may not need moisturizing often.
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