How to determine your skin type

Ideally, use products that do not create or strengthen any kind of undesirable skin. Among the most offensive highlights the bars of soap and cleaning (both dry and can irritate the skin artificially). Among these are the astringent lotions and Toner loaded with alcohol and other potentially irritating ingredients. All of them can create havoc on the skin. However, from now on, you will be able to understand your skin type and know how to treat it appropriately with what is really good for her.
   1. Do not pretend to qualify your type of skin after washing your face. Because the initial feeling you experience after washing your face can be caused by a reaction to water or cleaner you used, you have to wait at least four hours after washing the face to judge what is happening in your skin (but with proper cleansing mitigate any discomfort you feel after washing). Try to make this assessment a day when you have not used makeup, so that the base or the powder did not affect them.

2. Then, take a look in the mirror. Are there areas of your face that is remarkably bright? Are these areas across the face or only in the nose, cheeks, forehead and chin? If you're not sure, take a tissue in the face, wait another hour and repeat the operation. If the tissue is fat samples, it means that you have some portion of oily skin (or perhaps you're using a moisturizer that is too emollient for you, but as you read the information on your skin type I will go to help you resolve it). For more information, check out strategies for attacking acne.

3. Do I see some areas of your face dry or mate? If the answer to that question is yes, then you have dry skin. For more information, see Strategies to combat dry skin.

4. If certain areas of your face is oily and dry, then you have skin that is combined (although this condition usually can be the result of using products for skin care that are too emollient for your skin type But all that we are going to solve).

5. Whether it is that your skin is dry or fat, see if you have red areas on the nose and cheeks accompanied by red flares that seem to acne but are not simply granites (mud). Are there surface capillary vessels very notorious in those areas, as well as areas of extreme sensitivity? Do you blush easily? If the answer is yes to these questions may have rosacea. Rosacea is a medical condition that requires attention from a dermatologist. For more information on rosacea, consulting resources to combat rosacea.

6. Have any areas of your face tend to have acne outbreaks of small or medium, especially on days close to your menstrual cycle? If you have answered yes, you have mild to moderate acne.

7. Have any areas of your face are significant and ongoing outbreaks that is deep and sometimes painful and / or tend to leave scars? If you answered yes, then you have a more serious acne. For more information, check out strategies for attacking acne.

8. Do you have areas of the face, particularly around the nose, chin, cheeks or forehead, with very visible grains? For more information, check out strategies to eliminate the shins.

9. The damage caused by the sun is a concern for all of us, but how much has impacted your skin is difficult to determine. Someone between 20 and 30 years of age can cause serious damage from the sun, but the results of this damage will not be until well into the thirties and quarantine. Certain amount of damage caused by the sun is universal for almost everyone. The damage starts at the time that your skin sees the light of the Sun. Even the daily care and more diligent with a well-formulated sunscreen only filters up to 97 percent of the sun's rays, but for most of us do not even think about that when we are younger. In general, we can say that we all have a certain amount of damage caused by the sun, so that the skin of all of us have this condition. That means that each person needs care products containing ingredients the skin to combat or prevent the damage from the sun. For more information, see Strategies to combat wrinkles and how do you protect yourself from the sun.

10. Have you noticed discoloration of the skin of the face such as areas of new spots, or in the case of women of color, areas of gray or dark pigmentation? Very often, these discolorations are the result of a condition called melasma (also known as chloasma or patches of pregnancy). Usually, these are discoloration of the skin caused by sun or hormonal changes. For more information on discoloration of the skin, check for skin lightening products.

11. As I explained, because everybody has, in some way or another, sensitive skin, you should use products that are gentle, not manufacture and which do not irritate, so I added the category of sensitive skin to your skin type . For more information about what can cause irritation that consultation How to be sensitive to the skin.

12. Do you have patches of raised skin, red, dry, scaly white or scabs around the line of hair, nose, eyes or cheeks? It may be a skin disease called psoriasis, which needs medical attention.

13. If you're constantly swollen eyes or bag, you may have allergies to dust, mold or hay fever, even though food allergies that can cause swelling. It would be a good idea to consult with your doctor the option of taking an antihistamine (there are great products that are sold without a prescription) to see if that helps. Unfortunately, despite the fact that there are those who proclaim to the contrary, there are no products for skin care that can change your eyes swollen.

As you change settings and your routine skin care products that are appropriate for your specific type, surely notice positive changes that will take you to have the skin you want. Remember that the skin type is not static, even when using appropriate and well designed products, your skin type can change depending on the season, your hormones, your stress level and only for the fact that your skin passes by various changes. You need to reassess your skin as you notice differences, so as to hold the hearing this list so you can fully understand the problem that you face and not blindly apply products that are not likely to help.

For more information about your skin type, check out our determine skin type: an easy process.