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The next category in our skin type parade is the sensitive vs. resistant type of skin. This skin type is in addition to your oily vs. dry type – so you can be, like me, OS or oily sensitive! Resistant skin has a great stratum corneum that provides protection to your skin, keeping out the...
The defining feature of the oily skin type is – surprise! – oil production. Sebum production in the oily skinned is increased, leading to oilier skin and possible problems with acne. (Okay, the word “oil” has lost all meaning now!) There is a good thing about oily skin – we tend to age less quickly...
Lalla commented in this post…I have read that the pH of bath products does not matter much. The reason for that would be that we mostly use water when washing our hair or skin and the water brings the cleanser to a pH around 7 no matter what. I don’t know if I’m clear enough....
If you have dry skin, you know it can be a pain in the bum (or the arm or the face…choose your body part). What contributes to dry skin? The ability of our stratum corneum to maintain skin hydration! Low levels of stratum corneum lipids, natural moisturizing factors, sebum, hyaluronic acid, and aquaporins all contribute...
There are a million different ways to figure out your skin type, but I’ve chosen to go with the Baumann skin type indicator (or BSTI). There is a quiz for this, but we can’t access it without a recommendation from a dermatologist, so we’ll just go with the concepts found in this assessment for these...