Skin Care 101
Skin Care Tips
Skin Types
Everyone's skin is different. A person's skin type depends on three factors:
Lipid Content - reflects the health and softness of skin
Sensitivity- skin's level of resilience
- Normal skin - ideal balance of sebum production and cellular exchange for optimal skin health.
- Oily skin - caused by overactive sebaceous glands, resulting in excess production of oil. This can be due to stress, medicines, hormonal imbalances, or exposure to excessive heat or humidity.
- Combination skin - results from unbalanced lipid production and distribution throughout the skin, usually caused by hormonal imbalances or genetics.
- Dry skin - occurs when the sebaceous glands do not produce enough oil, due to such factors as hormonal imbalances, acne treatments, or an excessively dry climate.
- Sensitive skin - “There are many unknown factors in the diagnosis of sensitive skin, including, inherited factors, gender, age and race differences in skin sensitivity. What is known is that individuals with sensitive skin seem to have several unique skin attributes that affect their immune system and the skin barriers, making them more susceptible to skin irritation.”
