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Daily skin care regimen
Your skin's basic needs are the minimum, daily needs or regimen steps all skin types require.
Basic Needs
The four essential steps are cleanse, tone, hydrate and protect. A look at each step individually will help to clarify how it specifically addresses the essential needs of your skin.
1. Cleanse: This step meets the skin's basic need to be free of excess oil, dirt, and pollutants. If these impurities are not removed, you may experience dull, sallow skin; clogged, inflamed pores that can discolor and scar; or free radical oxidation that can damage cells, affect healthy cell renewal, irritate the skin, and initiate hyperpigmentation. To avoid these negative effects, cleansing should be performed twice daily.
2. Tone: Toning fulfills a basic daily need by preparing the skin to receive the benefits from other products and should be performed after cleansing. If skin is oily, tone twice a day. However it is best to tone dry skin only once. Toning works in several ways. It calms and soothes the skin; toning also minimizes the appearance of pores and balances the skin's pH.
3. Moisturize: The hydrate step provides vital lipids, replenishing moisture, and key repair components for optimal nighttime recovery. Nighttime hydration should be applied once daily in the evening. Even oily/greasy skin needs moisturizing with a light, oily-free moisturizer.
4. Protect: Sunblock! The protect step meets the skin's basic need for a morning moisturizer with SPF to guard against harmful UV rays and environmental stressors. Sun damage degrades the moisture barrier and structural proteins and promotes discoloration—all signs of premature skin aging.
Basic Needs
The four essential steps are cleanse, tone, hydrate and protect. A look at each step individually will help to clarify how it specifically addresses the essential needs of your skin.
1. Cleanse: This step meets the skin's basic need to be free of excess oil, dirt, and pollutants. If these impurities are not removed, you may experience dull, sallow skin; clogged, inflamed pores that can discolor and scar; or free radical oxidation that can damage cells, affect healthy cell renewal, irritate the skin, and initiate hyperpigmentation. To avoid these negative effects, cleansing should be performed twice daily.
2. Tone: Toning fulfills a basic daily need by preparing the skin to receive the benefits from other products and should be performed after cleansing. If skin is oily, tone twice a day. However it is best to tone dry skin only once. Toning works in several ways. It calms and soothes the skin; toning also minimizes the appearance of pores and balances the skin's pH.
3. Moisturize: The hydrate step provides vital lipids, replenishing moisture, and key repair components for optimal nighttime recovery. Nighttime hydration should be applied once daily in the evening. Even oily/greasy skin needs moisturizing with a light, oily-free moisturizer.
4. Protect: Sunblock! The protect step meets the skin's basic need for a morning moisturizer with SPF to guard against harmful UV rays and environmental stressors. Sun damage degrades the moisture barrier and structural proteins and promotes discoloration—all signs of premature skin aging.
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