Breakouts
People tend to treat breakouts all wrong - really quite drying and inflammatory. Hydration is as an essential part of the solution for acne-prone skin. The more gently you can control the inflammatory process, the better. Salicylic and retinol are brilliant and best counteracted with super hydrating skincare oils and soothing, oil regulating niacinamide. Then there's C-hit to reduce bacteria and encourage healing.
How we treat
This one is a bit hard to wrap your head around, but keeping your skin barrier strong (which means no degreasing) is a key factor when it comes to mitigating breakouts. Cells need to be hydrated for healthy metabolism to occur. Otherwise skin rebels.
Understand your triggers
Hormones, medication, environmental factors, diet, stress and too harsh skincare can all cause breakouts. It’s not only oily skin that can experience breakouts. And yet most acne routines are built only for oily skin types. And even then they take an attack approach, when nurturing and rebalance is the answer.
Choose an easy going cleanser
When you remove all of your “healthy” surface layers with foaming cleansers and alcohol toners, it causes the skin to be more susceptible to inflammation and infection. Use a non-stripping cleanser to remove excess oil and bacteria and get rid of pore-clogging pollution and grime.
Re-balance your skin
Apply a serum to balance the skin. B down-regulates oil. Our C serum helps skin heal and is antibacterial too and A helps slow down an over-active skin (which is what’s happing in adolescence). The skin cells at the top can’t keep pace with renewal under the surface - so cells build up.
Don’t Squeeze
Squeezing spots can spread bacteria and create more breakouts, lax skin and potentially pigmented spots. Instead, pop on spot serum and be patient. A spot clears in 1-10 days. A picked spot is a wound and takes 30!
Don’ be afraid of moisturisers!
The wrong moisturiser can actually cause more breakouts. Oily acne-prone skin types need a light weight source of hydration, while dry skin types should opt for a richer oil-based moisturiser.
