Daily Skin Care Essentials For Healthy Glowing Skin

In this presentable & photogenic era where innovation and technology has provided everyone an ultra-fine camera in their hands, everybody wants to look perfect & captivating all the time.

Happiness these days is expressed by clicking and sharing pictures on social media. When it comes to social media, we all get conscious about it, we might not be in the best clothes or hair all the time, but we all desire to have flawless glowing skin in the pictures to look back for.

Even skin tone and glowing skin is not always God gifted; it requires a lot of effort to take care of your skin & save it from problems caused by daily deteriorating environment.

Earlier looking beautiful & household chores used to be the only responsibilities of women, but with changing time women have empowered themselves and have acquired way smarter responsibilities be it managing professional life, social life or personal life. Sometimes while taking care of all these necessary aspects of life, we are not left with enough time to take care of our skin.

I am sharing with you simple and non-time taking possible ways by how you can get better skin effortlessly.

But before jumping into that, it is important to know our skin type, what we can do to make our skin look flawless, which skin care products to choose that will work best for our skin.

Awareness about your skin type only can solve half of your problems hence our skin care routine should also be based on our skin type only.

We can broadly classify skin in four types as following:

1.) Oily Skin

2.) Dry Skin

3.) Combination Skin

4.) Normal Skin

Oily Skin

Oily’ is used to describe a skin type with heightened sebum production. An over production is known as seborrhea.

Characteristics :

•             Large visible pores.

•             Glossy shine on face.

•             Because of enlarged pores – very prone to acnes, blackheads or white heads.

  

Dry Skin

‘Dry’ is used to describe a skin type that produces less sebum than normal skin. As a result of the lack of sebum, dry skin lacks the lipids that it needs to retain moisture and build a protective shield against external influences.

       

Characteristics:

•             Mild scaling or flakiness in patches

•             A rough and blotchy appearance (sometimes it appears to be prematurely aged)

•             A feeling of tightness

•             Possible itchiness

Combination Skin:

In combination skin the skin types vary in the T-zone and the cheeks. The so-called T-zone can differ substantially – from a very slim zone to an extended area.

Characteristics:

•             An oily T-zone (forehead, chin and nose)

•             Enlarged pores in this area perhaps with some impurities

•             Normal to dry cheeks

Normal Skin

Normal’ is a term widely used to refer to well-balanced skin. The scientific term for well-balanced skin is eudermic. The T-zone (forehead, chin and nose) may be a bit oily, but overall sebum and moisture is balanced, and the skin is neither too oily nor too dry.

Characteristics:

•             Fine pores

•             Good blood circulation

•             A velvety, soft and smooth texture

•             A fresh, rosy color uniform transparency

•             No blemishes

•             Not prone to sensitivity

Irrespective of what your skin type is, a daily skin care routine can help you maintain overall skin health and improve skin concerns like acne, scarring, and dark spots. A daily skin care routine has four basic steps-that you can do once in the morning and once in the night before you sleep.

Day Care:

It is the time of the clock when you have endless jobs to be completed maintaing a natural healthy glow throughout the day. Hence, we must take care of essential things in the morning to maintain our morning spark till evening.

​1.      Cleansing: Cleaning face is the most essential step of your day, as throughout the day skin encounters various amounts of pollutants, dust, dirt, different types of bacteria present in atmosphere & chemicals used in daily makeup. Hence, it becomes very important to deeply cleanse your face at least twice a day to open clogged pores, removes dust & acne causing bacteria.

Following are the type of products for various skin types:

•             Oily Skin – Foaming type

•             Dry Skin- Cream or lotion type

•             Combination Skin- Oil/Foaming type

•             Normal Skin-Melting Balm type.

•             Micellar water can be best used for all skin types.

Toner:

These are best used to shrink pores & control oil content of oily skin. For other skin types, these work as optional products & should be used only if you want extra cleansing.

Moisturizer:

After deep cleansing along with pollutants, dirt, unwanted particles, natural layer of oil and essential protective layer on skin is also washed away. So, it is very important to apply moisturizer on your skin to provide it with needed moisture. Moisturizer is basic requirement of all skin types & many times people with oily skin makes a mistake of not considering it essential product for the skin.

Following are the types of moisturizers to be used:

•             Oily Skin- Gel type

•             Dry Skin- Cream or lotion type

•             Combination Skin- Balm type

•             Normal Skin- Lotion type

Sunscreen:

Sunscreen plays an important role in protecting our skin from harmful UV rays which comes in two forms UVA & UVB, avoiding this can result in dark spots, patches or dullness of skin. It is advisable to use sunscreen at least of SPF30 & should be applied 15 mins before being exposed to sun.

Night Care:

Night is the time for you to relax, thus providing proper trigger to skin cells can help them repair all damage done throughout the day. So, use your nights wisely to get refreshing skin next morning.

Follow general routine of deep cleansing, if you have used excess of makeup throughout the day then wipe your face again with a cotton ball soaked in toner, apply serum rich in retinol, Vitamin C for all repairing action & have sound sleep of minimum 6 hrs.

General Advice:

As choosing suitable & skin friendly products is advisable for skin, your diet plan & daily dose of physical activities also plays a vital role in providing glow & brightness to the skin.

Keep your diet rich with Vitamins, Fruits, vegetables & try to take out at-least 15 mins a day for some exercise. All the glow & flawlessness you are looking for, will automatically knock your door.

Stay pretty, Stay Beautiful, Stay Flawless!!