How to Take Care of Sensitive Skin for Dummies! Everything you need to know about sensitive skin care

What is sensitive skin?

Many confuse with sensitive skin and combination skin.
Combination skin is patches of oily skin(Usually around T, U Zone) and dry skin.
Sensitive skin can be normal, dry, oily, or combination, and has cosmetic reactions.

I have a sensitive skin/combination skin, worse skin type of all. XD
Sensitivity can differ between people (you are all special my dears~:D)

Are you not sure if you are sensitive skin? 

60~70% of women thinks they have sensitive skin but people that has sensitive skin is much less than you think :)

Try answering these question to makes sure XD

#1 When ever the environment changes
Your skin itches and tightens
Think yes if you experienced this once a month / experience this 5 time a year

#2 When you push your forehead with your finger nails
The dent last for a long time
Using good amount of strength, lasted more than 15 minutes

#3 When you change cosmetic 
your skin sting and sometimes creates skin troubles
Think yes if you experienced this once a month / experience this 5 time a year

#4 Skin can turn so dry that small wrinkles, Tinea, and white dead skin cells
is seen.
Think yes if you experienced this once a month / experience this 5 time a year

#5 You can see through your skin and see those blood vessel.

If you have said yes more than 3 times...
You have sensitive skin

Even though you might not be sensitive skin right now
but Stress, Alchole, Cigar, lack of sleep, junk food
can change your skin to become sensitive skin.

How to take Care of Sensitive Skin

Now that you know whether or not your have sensitive skin

It's time to know how to take care of them.

What you should get rid of :

- artificial scent, artificial pigment

- Retinol : good for anti ageing but can cause sensitive reaction to sensitive skin

- Vitamin C : Great for whitening effect and oxidation however can cause skin reaction.

- Preservative : use often to lengthen the usage time 

however this can cause skin reaction.

- AHA : called to be natural ingredient that helps control dead skin cells,

However this worsen sensitive skin, because sensitive skin protective layer is weak

that's why the skin reacts, AHA scrubs off the protective layer when it's already weak!

one of the must get rid of ingredient

- BHA :  aka Salicylic Acid mostly used for taking care of skin problems

What you should get :

Copper, Zinc, Magnesium, Vitamin E, Vitamin B5

Cleansing

Get rid of stuff that has artificial scent, artificial pigment

Get stuff that has sedation effect, Ingredients like Aloe

For sensitive skin don't try to clean your skin a lot of times

to get that clean feeling, try washing your face once but softly rub the soap in instead of washing it 3~4 times.

When you wash off the soap don't rub your skin, splash the water on to your skin

(this may get you wet though XD)

Solid Soap vs Liquid Soap

Solid soap is Alkaline (Alkaline is more a base than your skin pH)

Liquid Soap is Neuter helps control your skin pH

Use Liquid Soap!

If you need extra cleaning use cleansing toner

(remember to wet the cotton enough, if you try to save the product the cotton can irritate your skin.)

Products of Recommendation

CNP Laboratory Daily Filling Foam / Mary Kay Customized Skin Care (3 types)

Basic Skin Care

Get rid of stuff that has Peppermint, menthol, eucalyptus

These are mostly used for lip care

But when these get around your skin

this can cause reactions

Try to find natural product, and products that doesn't not have stuff you don't need on your skin.

Most natural product last about 6 months,

But there are brands who have found natural ingredient that can act like preservative

**Always test before use**

Products of Recommendation

Primera Lift up/Moist up/Tone up/Clear up / CNP Laboratory Mugener Healing Ample

Sun Cream

There is two type of Sun cream

Physical Sun cream VS Chemical Sun Cream

Physical Sun cream : makes a thin layer over your skin and reflects sun rays

mostly used ingredient : zinc oxide, titanium oxide

Chemical Sun Cream : Adsorb the sun ray into your skin and chemically dissolve it(no milky white feeling)

Mostly used ingredient : Oxybenzone, benzophenone, Mexoryl

Now for sensitive skin which one do you think it is better to use?

Physcial Sun Cream

**These days there are mixtures of the two types these has very little milky feeling and apply real softy**

Tip : I know some of you don't like the whiteness after you use sun cream

Try using a wet sponge to apply the sun cream

This will lower the effect but can give less of those white color

When you use this method use more sun cream!

FAQ About Sensitive Skin Care

-What if, you got a skin reaction! What you should do!-

"Get rid of what ever you used, and get Products for sensitive skin care"

-My skin easily get red what should I do?-

When sensitive skin start a reaction the skin get red.

This is because loose blood vessel allow larger amount of blood than normal.

You should wear a hat or mask.

Drink caffeine cause hormone distress which can cause such reaction

-My skin heats up? What's up with that?-

This can happen when redness on your skin doesn't die down

This can be cause by stress,

You should put toner inside the fridge than wet it with a cotton 

and put it on top of your skin, do a cooling care.

-My skin tickles, sometimes it get worse and gets painful-

This happens when small dust get on your skin

Especially in the Spring when flower seed fly in the air

This can worsen your reaction

If you are using products with oil, these will capture those dust and keep it around your skin. Try using product with less oil and dry off/absorb fast. Usually Water based product is most helpful. Keep off dust when you walk in your house, and use cleansing tissue to clean off dust when walking into your house.

I hope I helped many sensitive skin

and people who wish to protect their skin from becoming one!