Sensitive skin deserves of made-to-measure treatments. It has specific needs against redness, the tightness... Expert advice to make the right moves beauty every step of care.
Scan the list of ingredients in your cosmetics with attention. "Less there is in care, less you might respond," says Alain Denis, responsible for searching Bioderma. Moreover, the targeted ranges "fragile skin" are very often "without perfume".
Prefer pump bottle presentations
Unlike pot presentations, those in pump bottle do not leave air: manufacturer therefore puts less than conservatives. If you allergic to a specific ingredient, you will easily identify it list INCI (International nomenclature for cosmetic ingredients). This list isdisplayed either on the packaging or directly on the bottle.
Test new treatments
Before adopting a new cream on the face, first check that you are not going to respond. Apply it in the crook of the elbow. The skin is fine, likely to react much like theface. Place an Occlusive dressing on the cream. Remove the bandage after two hours. No reaction? The cream seems to suit you. "Told two hours by security, but if it should react, it is often within half an hour," says Brigitte Nadir, responsible for the scientific communications at Clinique.
Sensitive skin has even more need to be moisturized
Water, is the shield of the skin. Sensitive skin has lost its ability to hold water, it is one of its characteristics. So you have to force the dose by applying a serum and a cream in the morning. Keep a tube of cream in your bag for touch-ups during the day.This is especially true if you have rosacea: redness make up the heat at the local level, the skin loses more water.
Do not multiply the products
You try a cream and then you give it up? You are testing three different treatmentson the face hoping to tolerate at least one? Attention! Your skin may saturate. Play simplicity: do not multiply products. Use a same cream morning and night, that's fine. And when you start a bottle unless you respond, finish.
Change cream depending on the season
It is one of the leitmotivs of Brigitte Nadir: even that one has a wardrobe of summerand one winter, changing from cream depending on the season, especially in the case of delicate epidermis. Light texture in summer (why not a serum), more comfortable in winter, but still targeted for sensitive skin.
Remember to put your products in the fridge. A cream is much nicer to be appliedwhen it is fresh.
Make-up and make-up removal products, good reflexes
The makeup is responsible for reactions at the level of the face. If your eyelids are suddenly red and swollen, it may be due to an allergy to nail polish. It often touches the eyes with fingers, where this reaction. Brigitte Nadir advise to choose its varnishwithout formaldehyde, a very allergenic substance.
If you have redness or itchiness 'in necklace", along the jaw, from right ear to left ear, your Foundation can be the cause. Always opt for ranges of makeup for sensitive skin.
Don't zap not removing make-up
Makeup is essential. With or without water, all depends on taste. You can have the reactive skin and keep this rinse water that leaves an impression of fresh and clean."We do not speak here of real intolerant water I think to those who cannot even take a shower and do everything to the wipe!," says Brigitte Nadir.
Choose a SOAP without SOAP
The SOAP on the face is not contraindicated unless it is a dermatological bread, i.e.a SOAP without SOAP. Simple product, it is suitable for the grooming of children. Found in pharmacies, in numerous brands.
Attention to sunscreens and aesthetic treatments
You want to buy a cream with a built-in solar index? It is a good idea in theory, butnot as good in practice.
Sunscreens can react skin
Good idea in theory because sensitive skin know well, Sun and redness are very bad.Bad idea in practice because, as explains Alain Denis, "sunscreens repeatedly may eventually to react with the skin, or even make it intolerant. Filters integrated into creams for sensitive skin must be mineral filters. On the other hand, they are astringentpowders that thicken the texture of the care. The cream becomes thicker and more irritating if we put every day. » Protect themselves only when it is exposed, this is theright balance.
Use the aesthetics with moderation
Some treatments like peelings can be irritating. If you choose your practitioner, dermatologist or cosmetic doctor, it will be able to tell you when a treatment is possible and when skin may be damaged. Distrust towards all those who seem to push consumption, even for techniques described as "soft".
A monitored particularly for reactive skin
Be alert to what you put on your plate. Food has a certain influence on the skin. Alcohol also. In fact, large sensitive deprive themselves often wine in dinners between friends, fear of having a Ruddy complexion while they drank only half a glass. Eat themost "soft" possible, avoid too spicy dishes.
If you are pregnant, use extra attention
Pregnancy is a period of great upheavals, including the skin. It can become ultrasensitive while it is not initially. If you are concerned, extra attention. Moisturize muchmore and seek advice from the pharmacist. If necessary, consult a Dermatology.
