Caring for sensitive skin

Posted by Jack Rossoe | December 10th, 2009 in Skin Care, sensitive skin | 3 Comments »

Facing external aggression and internal emotions, all the skins are not equal. Redness, tingling or burning sensations are symptoms that may be due to some skin sensitivity. And contrary to what many believe, this hyper responsiveness is not confined to dry skin.

Sensitive skin, hyper-reactive, irritable, intolerant or not a type of skin as well as oily skin, combination skin or dry skin. Instead, it is a characteristic that can affect all skins, such as the topic acne at any age, both on time and in the long term. However, it is true that the cutaneous hypersensitivity affects more women with fair skin and fine. If you are concerned, then they should spare your skin as possible and to adopt certain reflexes that promote the reduction or even disappearance of discomfort that causes cutaneous hyperactivity.

How to recognize sensitive skin?

Not easy at first to distinguish sensitive skin because it has no particular detectable during clinical examination. Skin sensitivity is primarily a matter of sensitivity …! It is the continuous feeling of discomfort, skin warming, burning, prickling, coloring or pulling characteristic skin sensitivity without any noticeable symptoms.

Moreover, one can think of hypersensitivity skin when the skin reacts to external factors that should not interfere. The skin is indeed reactive skin whose threshold is much lower than other face to environmental factors or internal, than conventional skins. Example: it is quite normal to feel tightness after a bath in a highly chlorinated pool or itching after contact with detergents, it is not trivial to be ashamed of being irritated or d having “sore skin” after applying the cream or even just water, after being thwarted or exposed to climatic variations.

The best is yet to seek an accurate diagnosis to his dermatologist may take a skin test to determine the local threshold of irritability of the skin and / or apply for allergy testing.

How to treat sensitive skin?

Factors causing skin reactions in sensitive skin are numerous: it includes the application of cosmetics, climate changes, certain foods, stress and even water or simply rubbing clothing. The skin barrier is compromised; it no longer provides its protective role towards the environment and becomes more permeable to foreign substances: UV, pollution, strong emotions and the menstrual cycle are then experienced as real attacks by the skin.

The adopt:

  • The milk toilet rinse in hot water sprayed on the face and micellar water without rinsing;
  • Breads and dermatological soaps;
  • A soothing care or special calming sensitive skin;
  • The treatment of dietary supplements to limit its impact on my body;
  • A hypoallergenic moisturizer that causes me no reaction after several applications. Once I found the right one, I care and I do more changes;
  • An anti-redness cream that will act simultaneously on the warmth of my skin.

Quit:

  • The idea of the test every Saturday morning from all cosmetics market;
  • Change unwanted environmental change: one day in Sydney the next day in Montreal, the day in an office, dry and overheated the night garden party in the garden cold and wet …
  • Dishes too spicy, tobacco, alcohol;
  • Alcoholic lotions, essential oils, foaming products and aggressive care or abrasive type peels, scrubs, creams, exfoliating or Anti-scaling.

Good news is that finally, if the immutable hereditary coetaneous sensibility struck you at birth, know that sensitive skin tend to harden and become more tolerant over the years, the stratum corneum thickens and becomes less permeable. “The sensitivity when it was menopause had come” …

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