Special Skin Care Tips for Oily Skin

If your skin is badly blemished, use a medicated soap, avoid harsh soaps as they only dry off the top layer of the skin, leaving your real problem untouched.

Wearing make-up on a blemished skin not only gives you greater confidence, it also helps cover your skin-flaws. What is more important is that it actually acts as a protection for your skin. So as long as you cleanse your face thoroughly and regularly, make-up will not make your blemishes worse.

• Steam your face regularly, at least once a week. This cleanses the skin and helps open clogged pores, which in turn prevents the .skin from breaking out into pimples.
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  Lime juice and vinegar (both diluted) are good after­ cleansing and toning lotions.
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  Fuller's earth, oatmeal and almond paste are excellent cleansers for an oily skin.
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  Beat the white of an egg and apply to your face avoiding eve-area. Leave on for ten minutes, then wash off with cool water. This egg white mask has a marvelous tightening and pore-closing effect on the skin.
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  Avoid rich, fried foods. These only contribute to oiliness. Substitute such foods with green vegetables, tomatoes, curd and lemon.

Special Skin Care Tips for Dry Skin

Avoid over-exposure to the sun. This further tends to dry your skin.

Once a week apply the juice of a melon (of course, only when it is melon season) to your face. Rinse off with cold water after 10-15 minutes. In addition to softening your skin, this treatment also works wonders for your complexion.

Astringents are definitely out for dry skin.

In the winter when skin tends to get very dry, avoid using soap.

Try this home-recipe facial once a week.

Mix the yolk of an egg with two tablespoons of milk, and half a tablespoon of honey.
Apply to face avoiding eye-area.

Leave on for fifteen minutes. Rinse off with tepid water. Make sure you include eggs, apples, peaches, cream, melons, milk and honey in your diet.

Skin Care Routine for Combination Skin

A combination skin is one of the commonest types of skin. It can prove tricky to handle because it is a combination of areas that are dry and areas that are oilly.

The nose and chin usually tend to be the oily areas, while the cheeks, temples and forehead tend to be dry. The eye area also tends to be dryish.

A combination skin needs to be tackled with two totally different skin care routines.

Skin Care routine for Combination Skin:

While cleansing, specific attention must be paid to the greasy areas.

An astringent must follow the cleanser. It must, however, be limited only to the greasy spots.

The rest of the face should be patted with cotton wool soaked in a toner.

While moisturizing, specific attention must be given to the dry areas.

Use an under eye cream every other night.

A face pack must be applied on the greasy areas and left on for 15 minutes.

Skin Care Routine for Oily Skin

Oily skin is very shiny. It is also prone to blackheads and large pores. It is inclined towards a sallow color. Make-up doesn't stay on for long.

Skin Care routine for Oily Skin:

Cleanse three times a day, as it is important to control the oily secretions from the sebaceous glands.

Pay special attention to either side of your nose and to your chin where the oiliness is usually worse.

Use an astringent, paying special attention to your grease-spots. This discourages greasy excretions from building up too rapidly under your make-up.
Apply a light moisturizer and blot off the excess immediately with a soft towel or face tissue.

Skin Care Routine for Dry Skin

This is a fine type of skin and it is either inclined towards sensitivity or is rather tough.

Dry skin feels tight and dry after washing. Fine-textured, it lines easily. A young dry skin looks flaky and lined; a more mature skin may look faded and dull. Spots and blemishes, however, rarely appear.

Skin Care routine for Dry Skin:-

Wash with a mild soap or cleanse with warm water at least twice a day. Rinse well.

For removing eye make-up use an oily remover. Try Johnson's baby oil. It is one of the best and most effective eye make-up removers.

As a skin toner use rose water diluted with mineral water. In addition to refreshing your skin, this toner helps remove the last traces of your soap or cleanser.

Apply moisturizer to damp skin, from bosom to hairline. Pay special attention to under-eye area.

Once a week Use an almond meal or oatmeal cleansing pack. Apply this to damp skin avoiding eye area. Wipe off gently or just wash off.

This removes all dry dead cells that your skin sheds during the week.

Skin Care Routine for Normal Skin

You are one of the lucky few, because normal skin is rare. Normal skin should be treated with the respect it deserves. You have no shiny panel centre, blackheads or enlarged pores. There may be an occasional "pimple, but acne is definitely not your problem.

Skin Care Routine for Normal Skin:-

Cleanse your face at least twice a day, once when you get up in the morning and once before you retire for the night. Whether you use a cleansing lotion or a mild soap, make sure you remove all traces of it from your skin as you rinse.

Tone your skin with a light skin tonic. This has a marvelous refreshing effect and it also closes pores after cleansing. Moisturize your skin, but remember that heavy creams are unnecessary for you.

Four Important Rules of Skin Care

The four important rules for skin care are Cleansing, Toning, Nourishing and Moisturizing.

Cleansing:
A skin that is not cleaned thoroughly and regularly can never be a healthy skin. When you clean your face you clean pores in the skin from excess oil, dust and waste matter. For this reason, the importance of a thorough cleaning cannot be over-emphasized.

Toning:
A skin-toner or skin freshener, as it is sometimes called stimulates blood circulation in the skin, giving it life and color. It also contracts the pores in the skin, keeping it taut, and helps firm skin tissues to remain firm.

Nourishing:
Nourishment given to the skin helps it to maintain and restore its natural oils. It also helps to rejuvenate the skin, keeping it smooth and firm. For this reason, it is important to use a nourishing lotion or cream. A vitamin skin cream helps to give skin vitality and strengthen facial muscles.

Moisturizing:
Every living thing needs moisture for replenishment, nourish­ment and survival.

Keeping skin smooth and supple means keeping it moist. Skin is moisturized by sealing in water. Moisturizing is vital for the skin. Nothing else you do will count for much if you omit this. Also a good make-up needs moisture for a full bloom.

A moisturizer does not really penetrate the skin. It acts as a cling-­film, preventing moisture from seeping out from inside and, anything else from seeping in from outside. This is why moisturizing is necessary even for a good skin.

Also remember that as you get older, your skin needs more moisturizing. The best time to use a moisturizing lotion or cream is right after a bath or shower when your skin has taken in water.

Always use the tiniest blob of your moisturizing lotion or cream. Spread it over damp skin. Do not neglect your neck, bosom and ears.

Use less moisturizer in summer than in winter, but moisturize more often as you will probably be bathing more frequently and also perspiring more.