First things first: Sensitive skin is not a skin type like dry skin, but a skin condition. Skin conditions are temporary and indicate that your skin is currently out of step. With the right care, the condition can be normalized. How do you restore balance? And can the problem even be avoided?
Recognizing your skin type is often not that easy. Especially if you often suffer from different skin conditions (sometimes sensitive, sometimes impure) you may be unsure of the normal condition of your skin. That's why it doesn't help much to care for the skin only according to Scheme-F. But if you react correctly to the different skin conditions, you can balance restore - and finally ... breathe a sigh of relief!
The - albeit small - consolation: There is rarely uncertainty about the condition of the skin. Sensitive skin? Blemished skin? This is clearly noticeable. If you frequently or currently suffer from sensitive skin, you will be familiar with at least some of these symptoms:
Your skin often and quickly reacts to external influences such as cold, UV rays, stress and cosmetic products with...
Does that sound familiar? Then you've come to the right place. Let's get to the root of the problem! First of all, it is important to understand why your skin reacts sensitively.
There are different causes, but the mechanism of sensitive facial skin remains the same. The skin barrier, which forms your skin's natural protective barrier, has become permeable. It consists of skin cells and lipids (fats), which connect them elastically. In a healthy state, this barrier protects the underlying layers of skin from moisture loss, repels bacteria and impurities, and prevents free radicals from destroying your cells.
If this lipid layer becomes too thin or even full of holes, your skin is more and more at the mercy of external influences. Wind and heating air accelerate the loss of moisture. There are noticeably and visibly dry patches. Bacteria and free radicals have an easy time of it. They cause inflammation and cell damage that penetrate deep into the skin.
Sensitive skin can have several causes. Cause Number 1: You may have inherited the tendency to do this. Your skin simply produces a little less sebum (sebum) to maintain a stable barrier and is more prone to irritation. Proper care is essential. But there is a danger lurking here: Resist the urge to overwhelm your sensitive skin with too many cosmetics!
That is Cause Number 2 and it is becoming increasingly important. Sensitive skin is often the result of overcare. Too much care products and make-up pushes the skin to its limits. It can no longer process the many different ingredients and weaken its protective mechanisms. At the same time, aggressive cleaning quickly removes moisture from it.
In the last few years, cosmetic trends have prevailed in which several layers of care and make-up are literally "stacked" on the skin in the morning and evening. It is not uncommon for her to be confronted with well over 100 different ingredients! And that several times a day.
For comparison, imagine that each of your meals consisted of over 100 different ingredients - sweet, sour, salty, spicy, fatty, stuffing, all at once and in significant amounts. Feeling of fullness pre-programmed! Skin cells can also become oversaturated and simply no longer digest all the well-intentioned “food”. And in the skin, too, whether the cell metabolism works well or not so well has a direct effect on the immune system.
More on this in the article Applied too thickly - why too much cream is not good for sensitive skin.
The first impulse, of course, is to put out the fire blazing on your irritated skin. Radical action is often taken here with a lot of heavy maintenance. But what about extinguishing a fire? If you use the wrong liquid, the flames will shoot up. In the same way, unsuitable care products can also fuel your problem. A minimum program is the order of the day here.
In the case of a strong development, a hard cure helps, see our instructions. It gives your skin time to recover. Then switch to a care routine that doesn't overstrain your skin. The aim is to provide them with good moisture and lipids for an intact skin barrier. Many of our customers have had very good experiences with the Rosskur, even if it was difficult to convince them at first. Because for many, the idea of not being able to apply lotion to the face after cleaning is absolutely unimaginable. It is easy to forget that the face is not tight because the skin is made that way, but that something is wrong with the cleaning or the products used. You can find out more about this in the article Tension from the cream tube: How emulsifiers dry out your skin.
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