What's Your Skin Type?

Knowing your skin type can help in making skincare choices. Let's get started.

Aged skin is more susceptible to wrinkles and dryness.

An effective skincare routine will stabilize overproduction of sebum (skin's natural oil production), while also improving skin hydration. Avoid use of soap if you have dry skin. Oily skin benefits from exfoliation to cleanse old sebum and skin cells that lead to clogged pores.

If you react easily to allergens, experience acne regularly or your skin becomes easily irritated, you have sensitive skin. You may struggle to find effective skincare. Skincare potent enough to solve skin ailments may cause other irritation. Low potency products may not tackle your issues.

If you rarely experience acne, skin reactions, or skin irritations, you have resistant skin. You may not experience adverse reactions to skincare products, but it may be difficult for you to find products potent enough to bring the desired result.

If you experience dark spots or patches, you have pigmented skin (P). This hyperpigmentation is not related to ethnicity. Specific ingredients in effective skincare products even out skin tone and disrupt the formation of melanin in skin cells, resulting in fewer darkened areas.

Sun exposure leads to accelerated aging. Don't believe that? Look at some of your skin that rarely sees the sun. Does it appear as weathered as skin that frequently has sun exposure? Sun exposure leading to weathered and wrinkled skin is a factor that you can control.

Other factors leading to skin type are genetic-based. Reducing sun exposure will help reduce further skin damage, but to stop skin damage and reverse the damaging effects of sun exposure, you need skincare products high in antioxidants and containing Retinoid ingredients.

Thank you so much for learning more about skin types. In summary, you may have dry (D) or oily (O), sensitive (S) or resistant (R), pigmented (P) or nonpigmented (N), and wrinkled (W) or tight (T) skin. The combination of all four categories will help you more effectively choose skincare products.