One Size Does Not Fit All When it Comes to Your Skin

Skin Care Tip: In my 20+ years of being an esthetician and working hands-on with skin, one of the most important things I have observed is that not all skins are equal.

Early on in my career before I opened my first skin care spa, I worked at a full-service hair salon that offered facials. We sold one line of products that catered to dry, normal and oily. I quickly discovered that my client’s skin had more going on than those three simple categories so I pleaded with the salon owner to bring in another skin care line so that I could mix and match to give my clients the best results for their home care needs. After a while, two skin care lines still weren’t enough, so they brought in a third which gave me a nice variety to choose from…

Two years later when I started planning to open my own business, I decided that there had to be a better solution. So I started down the road of developing my own line based on nine different skin types. It would be years in the making to develop over 65 products, but it’s been my philosophy since then and certainly holds true now.

You cannot cookie-cutter skin into three basic categories of dry, normal and oily. Many lines now have expanded into sensitive and anti-aging categories, but what if your skin is a combination of them all? 

One example that I see most often is those that have wrinkles and breakouts! If you use products to reduce the breakouts, more than likely your skin will get dry and irritated which certainly doesn’t help anti-aging. If you use high-performance anti-aging products, then you run the risk of clogging your pores since many formulas are geared towards dry skin.

Bottom line: Your skin’s many needs must all be addressed. And it all begins with our nine skin types.

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