Monday, April 13, 2009

Great Tips For Sensitive Skin Care

It is very difficult to take care of sensitive skin because most of the skin care creams and lotions with chemicals in them do tend to react with your skin badly causing a lot of itching, redness, and dryness to your skin.

Sensitive Skin:

A sensitive skin is a thin skin or a skin with fine texture which reacts readily in cold and hot weather. It reacts to extremely cold and hot weather and suffers from wind burns and hot burns very easily. Sensitive skin is also very delicate and quite easily gets allergic reactions.

The sensitive skin is so delicate that it reacts to changes in the temperature, topical alcohol usage, detergents, and cosmetics. I know a person who uses gloves even while cooking. Her skin develops redness even to the mild cleaning liquids and few drops of lemon juice.

If you are having a sensitive skin, you probably would be taking care of it already. Here are few more tips for you which if not already followed can be practices henceforth.

Tips For Sensitive Skin Care

First you should know that skin care and acne care creams which use a lot of harsh chemicals and potential allergens would do a lot of damage to your skin and hence it would be prudent to use mild herbal skin care creams

But if you are already using skin cream comfortably make sure that you don’t change them unless necessary. Know that though most the people have sensitive skin because of the genetics but prolonged usage of harsh chemicals on your skin can also make it sensitive.

Due to the sensitiveness of the skin to sun, you have to regularly use sun-screen lotions and creams. Fragrance mixed with the cream has a tendency to give an allergic reaction to sensitive skin so select skin care products which are devoid of allergens and fragrance. There are ingredients in skin creams and lotions which are know to cause allergic reactions to skins. Choose a product which does not use these ingredients.

The facial skin is more sensitive and should not be pounded with a lot of skin care creams on it. Use that soft skin cream which you are already using and if not choose some natural product for sensitive skin care.

A lot of cleaning and washing your face can also irritate the skin by removal the protective moisturizing layer. While using a skin cleanser make sure that you use a mild cleanser which is very effective to your skin type. Use baby soap to wash your face and keep a soft towel to dry your skin.

Using water and mineral based makeup is recommended to sensitive skin. Water and mineral based makeup do not use a lot of chemical like oil based makeup and will not be very harsh on your sensitive skin. Most of the natural makeup products are water and mineral based and do not use any harsh chemicals. Use them.

While using a new makeup, skin cream, or perfume use them at the back of your ear first to see whether you skin is allergic to them. It takes at least one day to know the reaction of your skin to these products.

Using skin scrubs can irritate your sensitive skin. Use a skin scrub product which contains salicylic acid for exfoliating your skin removing dead cells. This type of scrub is milder and can give the best exfoliation without irritating your skin.

Sensitive skin is very delicate and reactive when astringent is used and so avoid this.

Hope these tips for sensitive skin care will be useful you to.

1 comment:

  1. Using fine sea salt and honey mixed together makes an excellent home remedy exfoliante for the face to remove dead cells. Then apply a luxurious moisturiser like Lamenja with natural oils like jojoba, passion flower calendula and mango butters.

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