In order for you to give your skin what it needs most, you need to know what type of skin type you have. If someone has told you your skin type before, the best thing you can do is forget what you learned.
Typically, you would hear the categories, dry, oily and combination skin. The trouble is that there are a host of other problems that can affect your skin type like sun damage, acne, eczema, or rosacea to name just a few. In addition, you can have more than one skin type. You might be oily and sensitive or dry, but blemish prone, you might have combination skin and sun damage.
The likelihood of combination skin increases as you get older. Let’s have a look at your skin type and get into it a little more so that you can do a better job of keeping your skin glowing, healthy and more youthful.
What Influences Your Skin Type
There are tons of things that can influence your skin type both internally and externally. To do a good job of evaluating your skin you should consider these factors that can affect your skin. Consider which ones are affecting your skin.
- Climate
- Diet
- Genetic Predisposition
- Hormones
- Medications
- Pollution
- Skin Disorders
- Smoking
- Second-hand Smoke
- Stress
- Unprotected Sun Exposure
- Prolonged Sun Exposure
- Your Skin-Care Routine
Ingredients That Can Make Your Skin Worse
What many of us aren’t aware of is that the use of certain products and ingredients can make your skin issues worth. For example, many products that are used to treat acne contain high amounts of alcohol or other irritating ingredient, which can cause your skin to become dry and irritated, which in turn can lead to additional oil production.
If you are using any products that contain irritating ingredients you won’t know what your true skin type is, at least not until you stop their use.
If you use thick-textured products, often it can lead to clogged pores. If your skin cells don’t exfoliate properly, your skin will look dull and old. It can even cause wrinkles. In order to know what’s going on with your skin you have to know if your
products are to blame.
Ingredients that can affect your skin care products include:
- Abrasive Scrubbing Agents
- Alcohol
- Fragrances from essential oils
- Harsh Cleansing Agents
- Drying Cleansing Agents
- Irritants
- Menthol
- Pore-Clogging Waxes
- Thick Emollients
Identify Your True Skin Type
Once you have ruled out any factors, including ingredients that can be problematic you are much closer to determining your true skin type. At some point most of us deal with combination skin. That’s because the center of your face has more oil glands than there are more pores to get clogged along the ‘T Zone.’ In addition, areas around your nose and eyes tend to be more sensitive.
Knowing your skin type helps you to choose the right kinds of products and the right skin routines. From here, we will start to look at beauty secrets you can put to work in your life. Let’s get started.
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