How to Care for Your Skin When You Have a Cold

It is winter time and that means cold and flus. Blowing your nose, your body being worn down, and taking medication to manage the systems can all affect the skin greatly – and not for the better.

Here are my five expert skin tips to care for your skin when you’re sick with a cold, to keep it looking its best. After all, when you look better, you feel better, right?

1. Use a humidifier in your bedroom at night. Whenever the air is dry it looks for moisture wherever it can get it – and that means robbing it from your skin. Along with decongestants that also dehydrate the skin, it will leave your skin especially parched and dry. By using a humidifier in your bedroom at night, it will keep moisture in the air which will maintain hydration levels in the skin to keep skin feeling comfortable… Read more

The Best Moisturizer to Get Brighter, Glowing Skin

WHAT IT IS: It’s a fact that rough, dry skin = dull, tired-looking skin. Healthy, glowing skin = light reflective skin. When the skin is tired-looking, it is a result of a damaged lipid barrier that no longer seals moisture between surface cells, resulting in an uneven dull surface. As a consequence, when light hits the skin, instead of reflecting it evenly, it is scattered and skin appears lackluster.

This ultra luxurious formulation delivers vital ceramides and lipid-rich oils while you sleep to deeply moisturize and repair the skin’s damaged layers. With continued use, the lipid barrier is strengthened allowing the skin to reflect light and imparting glowing perfection. Wrinkles are less noticeable and skin is supple with a radiant glow that lasts… Read more

Can You Mix Your Face Serums and Use Them Together on Your Skin?

A skin serum is a skin care product that contains a higher concentration of active ingredients and usually comes in a gel or creamy gel form. It is meant to be used under a moisturizer or mask to give a boost of results to the skin.

If you have two serums and they each offer different benefits that your skin needs, can mixing them together and applying to the skin give you enhanced results?

The answer is yes! I recommend layering them on one at a time versus actually mixing them together in the palm of your hand.

Here are two examples as to how using two serums can offer you extra skin benefit:

-Let’s say you’re breaking out, but your skin is feeling dehydrated too. After cleansing, layer on a coat of an oil-free serum that contains hyaluronic acid like Skin Drink. (Read about the benefits of hyaluronic acid.) Then layer on a thin coat of Anti Cyst Treatment to the areas that are breaking out. Let dry and the follow with an oil-free moisturizer like Sheer Moisture. (Note: While Anti Cyst Treatment is formulated for spot treating painful cystic blemishes, it’s also really beneficial for preventing ALL TYPES of blemishes when used in areas prone to acne.).. Read more

VIDEO: Renée Rouleau Shares Skin Tips with Oh So Cynthia

Renée Rouleau sits down with the fabulous Cynthia Smoot from the lifestyle blog, Oh So Cynthia and answers commonly asked skin care questions.

What are the basic skin tips that everyone needs to do?

What’s more important, cleansing or moisturizing?

How did you come up with your nine skin types?

How often should someone get a facial? … Read more

Can I Use Eye Cream On My Face?

No. Eye creams should not be used on the face for two reasons.

Reason #1: Eye creams are formulated with intensive moisturizing ingredients (such as lipid-rich oils) which are appropriate for the eye area since there are no oil glands around the eyes, but may potentially clog the pores on the face for those who produce oil and are prone to blocked pores or breakouts.

Reason #2: Many eye creams have active ingredients in them that are designed to be anti-aging by increasing the metabolism of the cells (such as certain vitamin combinations and peptides), which are excellent for the eye area since it’s the first area of the face to show aging. However, these ingredients may be too active for the face, particularly in younger skins and those prone to breakouts, since this type of skin already has an active metabolism. The stimulation may increase breakouts.

Bottom line: Save eye creams for the area of the face for which they were intended and use face creams on the face.

See our Firming Eye Therapy, Synergy Eye Cream, Vitamin C Eye Cream and Soothing Eye Makeup Remover

Read: Help! I’m So Dry Under My Eyes… Read more

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