Each person with eczema will experience different symptoms and triggers, but having eczema if you’re a person of colour can also mean added symptoms such as enhanced scarring. So this week, we’re going to talk about eczema and black skin. How to recognise it, how to get eczema diagnosed and how to help manage it.
Imagine standing outside in the cold, wet or windy weather without wearing gloves. Your hands would feel pretty cold and uncomfortable, wouldn’t they? But that’s pretty much what we do to the skin on our faces on a daily basis when we go outside on a winters’ day.
When it comes to your skin type, there are many things that, quite literally, are going on under the surface. We’re all born with distinct and unique characteristics, and that’s what makes us all so beautifully different.
Asking the question, “what is a facial cleanser” might seem like a pointless question, with a pretty straightforward answer, doesn’t it? Because aren’t they all exactly the same? Well, actually, as we’ve seen before, the products we use that are designed to cleanse the face are all very different indeed.
A foaming cleanser, by virtue of its name, will foam up when you use it, usually after mixing it with water. Generally, a foaming cleanser will need to be mixed with water in your hands and applied to the face with a gentle massaging motion. It’ll then generally need to be rinsed away or wiped off with a damp face cloth.
It's important that you cleanse your skin for as long as your skin feels it needs it, and can tolerate it. This might mean standing in front of a stop watch whilst you work out what’s best for your beautifully individual skin. Or, if your skin isn’t that precious when it comes to how long you cleanse, give it the full 60 seconds of gentle, circular massaging.
Here’s our tried and tested tips for keeping your skin playing ball, for however long the stay at home message lasts for.
What should we be looking for in skin care as a bare minimum, if we really care about the health and appearance of our skin? Here’s our top tips.
The best approach to combination skin, whatever the season, is a ‘hotspot’ approach. This means targeting different areas of your skin with different products. It might sound like a bit of a faff, especially if time is tight, but your skin truly will thank you for it. And you’ll soon get used to it!
Just like sports nutrition, superfood based food supplements and anything else that’s continuously studied and perfected, skin care ingredients keep getting better. The more research that’s done, the more miracle ingredients are found and the more miracle products are released to an eagerly awaiting public looking to fix ‘imperfections’ in their skin. The problem is, all this research costs time, and money.
Ideally, skin care products should be given three whole skin cell renewal cycles, that is, three months. This will give you enough time to see if the product or regime is benefitting your skin type.
AHAs are a type of acid that can be plant or animal derived. AHAs have various benefits for the skin, but the main one is exfoliation.
