Knowing Your Skin Type
Discovering your Skin Type
Knowing your skin type is the key to vibrant, healthy skin. If you don't know your skin type how will you know what products to use on it? This rule applies to natural and man made skin care products.
Skin goes through three phases during a lifetime:
- Infancy = dry skin at times
- Teenagers = pimply and oily
- Adults = saggy wrinkled skin, fine lines, and age spots to name a few.
Can you guess the skin type?
- ___ Only uses water based and anti-acne products.
- ___ Must use oil based products to hydrate skin.
- ___ Uses products that cater to oily and dry areas of skin.
- ___ Has many choices of skin care products.
Answers: 1 = Dry skin, 2 = Normal skin, 3 = Oily skin, 4 = Combination skin
- Dry skin is usually itchy, flaky, and apt to wrinkle, so keeping it hydrated is vital to keeping it healthy.
- If your skin is normal, then it isn't too dry or too oily.
- If your skin is oily, oily creams and lotions will only make it worse.
- Combination skin is made up of two different skin types, oily and normal, more popularly called your T-Zone.
Here are some other types of skin you will learn about:
- Acne-prone skin
- Aging skin
- Red skin
- Sensitive skin