Tips to Care Sensitive Skin

Natural products may suit, you as they often contain, calming ingredients like camomile, cornflower; milk, and liquorice.

What Are The Characteristics?

If you have sensitive skin you will find that skincare or makeup products are very hard to use, creating itching, flaking, reddening or tlushing. Eighty per cent of women think they have sensitive skin though in reality only 10 to 20 per cent show the true characteristics. If you're one of them, you're likely to have fair skin or red hair be prone to flushing easily (red veins and high colour are signs of potential sensitivity) or suffer other types of allergy like hay fever or asthma, as these cause the release of histamines which make your skin more reactive. Stabilizing the skin and treating it with products that won't cause these reactions are the way to get it looking good.

Tips

• First, eliminate any unnecessary products from your skin care regime. The average woman uses five or six skincare products, so exposing her skin to more than 100 chemicals a day - and you could be sensitive to anyone of these. All you really need for good skin is a cleanser, a moisturizer with a sunscreen and, depending on your age, an eye cream. Everything else is superfluous and in the case of harsh products like alcohol-based cleansers and toners, retinols and alpha ­ hydroxy acids, may cause more problems than they solve.

• Second, make sure you avoid products containing ingredients most likely to cause sensitivity. These are usually fragrances, colours and preservatives (particularly formaldehyde), though technically you could be sensitive to anything.one relatively painless way of reducing the risk is to use only those products from ranges that say they are hypoallergenic. Natural products may suit you.as they often contain calming Ingredients like camomile, cornflower, milk and liquonce.

• Third, treat your skin with care. Make sure you cleanse gently to remove make-up at the end of the day as reactions tend to occur when you overexpose your skin to any product. Use very light, creamy cleansers or, preferably, facial wipes, which minimize your contact with product ingredients. Restrict cleansing to once a day to help maintain the skin's own protection. use a specialist eye make-up remover, as facial cleansers may include ingredients that will irritate your eyes.

• Moisturizing is important the drier the skin, the more prone it is to sensitivity.apply a light moisturizer twice daily. To hinder your anti aging process, do it just once a week and stick to only one product. If your skin reacts, water down the dose by mixing it with a moisturizer or an over-the-counter hydrocortisone cream.if you still get a reaction, stop.