Sunday, April 22, 2012

Coping with Dry Skin

By Owen Jones


Dry skin is quite often sensitive too, which only makes it more difficult to care for. Dry sensitive skin is taut because of the deficiency of natural oils and has a tendency to develop small expression lines that will eventually become wrinkles. Furthermore, this kind of skin makes one more liable to allergic reactions, rashes, capillaries rupturing and sudden flushes. Therefore, taking care of dry sensitive skin can be a real challenge sometimes. It is worth saying that it afflicts people of all ages, colours and genders.

You need to follow stringent rules in your selection of cleansing, moisturising and make-up products when you have dry sensitive skin to take care of. Firstly, you have to reduce the amount of products you put on your skin. The fact is, the more chemicals you use, the bigger the chance of developing rashes. The products have to be fragrance-free and hypo-allergenic so that you don't develop red, irritation blotches. Blusher and foundation can pose some difficulties for dry sensitive skin.

Try not to use too much make-up in order to allow the skin to breathe properly. When shopping for make up, other than the hypo-allergenic label, you should also make sure that they are oil free. The foundation or the blusher should be water-based because they don't clog your pores. Oil-absorbing foundations are not recommended for dry sensitive skin, because they will make your epidermis even drier.

Furthermore, the use of exfoliants or astringent products is not to be recommended on dry sensitive skin because they could irritate the thin upper layers of skin. The same thing has to be said in relation to cleansing - too much washing of the face will result in eliminating the natural oils that lubricate the skin, which will produce accelerated dryness.

Furthermore, your day-time moisturiser should have a sun-protection factor (SPF) of at least 15 in it. However, however much you may like sunbathing, dry sensitive skin does not really permit you to enjoy such outdoor, skin-parching pleasures.

If you have dry sensitive skin, don't expose it to the sun just to tan it, because you will only achieve early ageing and possibly even quite serious health problems. And last but not least, a warning must be given that you should change some of your cosmetic products for other ones along the lines mentioned previously.

If you decide that you want to switch to a different brand of skincare products, it is very important that you test the product on a small section of skin in order to test whether it triggers any allergic reactions.




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