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Serious skin care

Adapting your routine to your skin

Serious skin care is about keeping your skin healthy and glowing throughout your life. As you get older, your body’s natural skin care mechanisms become weaker, so serious skin care means responding to the changing needs of your skin. It is about constantly evaluating and, where needed, changing your skin care routines. Your routine should change with the environment, your age and changes in your skin type.

Staying informed

Serious skin care is also about awareness. Thanks to technology and research, new knowledge is brought to light every day, and the composition of skin care products keeps changing with time. Trying out new products is therefore part of serious skin care. Test a new product on a small patch of skin first (not on the face) to see how your skin reacts to it.

Using products well

Serious skin care also means knowing how to get the most from your products. Good practices include applying moisturizers while the skin is damp, using gentle upward strokes, removing make-up before going to bed, cleansing before you moisturize or put on make-up, and using the correct amount of each product. Making your skin care products more effective is another focus of serious skin care.

Being gentle

Some precautions, such as avoiding contact with harsh detergents, are also part of serious skin care, which means being gentle with your skin. Over-exfoliation, low-quality products and strong chemical-based products are all harmful to your skin. Some people have the wrong idea of serious skin care: they think it means using large quantities of products as often as possible. It does not, and that is why awareness is so important.

Serious skin care is also about visiting your dermatologist for skin disorders. Ignoring skin disorders can be risky for your skin and might lead to permanent damage. If things do not improve with over-the-counter medication, see a dermatologist without delay. Do not treat blemishes yourself: squeezing acne or pimples is a big no, because it can damage your skin permanently.

In the end, serious skin care is more about precaution and protection than about treatment. It means being proactive as well as reactive. In fact, we can say it is about being proactive about the needs of your skin so that the need to react is reduced to a minimum.