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The final type of sensitive skin types is the allergic type skin. This skin type exhibits redness, swelling, itching, and skin flaking when exposed to something to which the skin is allergic. Approximately 23% of women and 13.8% of men in Great Britain exhibit this skin type, and most of the reactions in personal care...
Sensitive skin type, stinging type, is characterized by a tendency to experience almost immediate stinging or burning sensations in response to various ingredients used in our products. If you have stinging with redness or inflammation, odds are you have the rosacea type skin. Stinging type skin isn’t generally accompanied by redness or inflammation – both...
If you missed the sushi making class with Raymond today, then here are the hand outs. We will be scheduling another one in the near future – watch the library schedule and this blog for details! Sushi hand out 1Sushi hand out 2If you want to know how to make edamame, it’s easy! (The instructions...
This is my skin type – characterized by recurrent flushing of the skin combined with facial redness and feeling hot sensations! It is an acneiform condition affecting those 25 to 60 years old. (Acneiform means it has pustules and break-outs that resemble acne, but aren’t acne.) Those of us with this skin type also get...
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...