Knowing what you need in your cream can help you show off your radiant skin. When we go to buy a cream or a product for our face, the same question always arises, which one will work for us?
If you are one of those who stay faithful to one, you usually repeat season after season without any problem. Your skin does not need the same thing in winter as it does in summer, it has different needs, so you should change the formula. But let’s go to what matters to us. If you are one of those who believe that beauty has a lot to offer you and you like to try new things but get it right, we are going to tell you what ingredients dry, oily and combination skin needs, so when you read the active ingredients of the product you are buying, you will be able to be much closer to success than if you didn’t.
Dry Skin
Tightness in the morning after a shower is a classic in your case, in case you didn’t know, you should avoid high-temperature water because it further enhances that dryness. There are a series of cosmetic ingredients that will help you to calm your main need.
Hyaluronic acid. It has a great capacity to retain water and maintain hydration in the skin but in a rather superficial way. A principle that is found naturally in our body, deals with moisturising and giving support to the dermis. Over the years, the production of HA decreases and the skin becomes drier and loses firmness.
Squalene: A fatty acid that the skin produces naturally. They allow you to establish a protective barrier on your skin that prevents moisture from evaporating, keeping it intact. They decisively affect the brightness, luminosity and elasticity of the skin, as well as its hydration and texture, among other aspects.
Honey. It is full of floral water that has numerous mineral salts, amino acids and vitamins A, B and C. It is also fructose and rich in glucose (around 80%), both sugars that take advantage of the water in the upper layers of our skin. This natural ingredient is known in the beauty world for its anti-inflammatory and regenerating properties and is a great collagen booster.
Shea butter. Known as African gold, it is a wonderful source of hydration, perhaps more suitable for the body than for the face due to the intensive action of its ingredients, vitamins A, D, E and F, or oleic and stearic acids.
Oily skin
You’ve spent your life avoiding those blissful glitters that lead you down the path of bitterness, we know. Oily skin in many cases can be balanced with a dermatologist’s diagnosis since sometimes it can be derived from a hormonal issue. The specialist can help you discover where this excess sebaceous secretion comes from – if there was a specific cause that had caused it – and recommend a treatment. The ingredients that can favour your skin are:
The witch hazel. Both the leaves and the bark are used, rich in tannins, flavonoids and saponins. It is used as an astringent, helps to contract the tissues and is a powerful detoxifier. It controls excess sebum and favours the closure of the skin pores.
The Propolis. It has a powerful antibacterial, and anti-inflammatory action and the ability to regulate sebaceous secretion. Its regenerating, protective and antioxidant capacity is also highlighted.
Tea tree oil. Although you may have heard it more like a repellent for lice, this active ingredient or rather its extract can benefit your oily skin due to its “antimicrobial” power, that is, it eliminates and reduces the growth of bacteria and microorganisms on our skin. The ally that we all want to have in our battle against acne.
Niacinamide. This derivative of vitamin B3 has an essential anti-inflammatory effect to reduce acne outbreaks, it also reduces sebum production and reinforces the barrier function, which in these cases is greatly reduced by the treatments that are usually prescribed.
Salicylic acid. In formulations for the skin, a derivative of BHA is usually used, a beta-hydroxy acid used in cosmetics to cleanse and promote the renewal of oily skin. It has a fairly strong exfoliating action and therefore makes the skin very sensitive to exposure to the sun.
Mixed-skin
You already know that your T-zone and the rest of your face go two different ways. First, you have to treat oily skin and the rest as dry skin. So the idea is that you work the two areas independently, although with the times we have it is frankly difficult. But we hope that with the above ingredients and these cosmetic proposals that we make you save the situation as worthily as possible.
