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RED IRRITATED SKIN. IT MAY NOT BE WHAT YOU THINK.
UNCOMFORTABLE, RED AND ITCHY
Skin that feels 'out of control' maybe due to over treatment.
Pink Avenue's 5 Step Solution to regain your skin's balance
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Overtreating Skin upsets the skin's natural protective biome.
OVER TREATED SKIN AND HOW TO CORRECT IT.
Redness, irritation, breakouts and unhappy skin? It could be you are giving it too much love.
Often it is the skin reacting to over treatment due to too many skin care steps or products that are too active for your skin.
By switching to the right skin care program and eliminating over treat steps, the skin can regain its balance in just a few days,
if not in hours.
Your skin has a miraculous biome of healthy bacteria
The biome keeps your skin’s natural barrier healthy and robust. A healthy skin requires adequate lipids (natural oils) on the surface, good hydration and healthy bacteriat o keep your skin glowy, soft and fortified with plenty of resilience against breakouts and red flare ups.
SKIN RENEWAL INGREDIENTS CAN UPSET THE BIOME
Over treating the skin using skincare with ingredients such as glycolic, retinol, BHA, scrubs, vitamin C upset the skin's biome, creating a pH imbalance and the skin reacts, loosing it's natural ability to heal itself. Before you jump to conclusions, ie rosacea, take a minute and think about when the skin irritation began and what skin care or treatments the skin has been exposed to.
OVER TREATED SKIN BIOME UPSET SYMPTOMS
Dry tight skin after cleansing.
Constant patchy redness.
Excessive oiliness midday.
Tight shiny looking skin.
New dilated capillaries.
Skin looks and feels dry
Itchy, uncomfortable skin.
Breakouts not normal for your skin .
Dark marks, hyperpigmentation Ashy looking skin.
HOW DOES OVER TREATMENT AFFECT THE SKIN?
If you experience more that one symptoms it maybe you are over treating your skin.
When you use multiple cleansers, scrubs, AHA, BHA, retinols daily you are likely
removing all traces of the skin’s surface healthy biome,
lipids and natural moisture. The skin becomes unbalanced and may react.
Over treating the skin daily does not allow the skin to rest
and recover and truly benefit from useful skin renewal ingredients.
If the skin’s vital lipids are not replaced after treatment, this only makes things worse.
OVER TREATED SKIN SYMPTOMS ARE A SIGN OF
TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING.
Just as it is recommended to space your weight workouts days apart to allow muscles to rest, the skin’s surface
also needs a rest period to benefit from skin renewing ingredients. Without the recovery time your skin’s defence mechanism
can become over loaded resulting in distressed, red, irritated, dry, tight and uncomfortable skin.
Essential skin lipids, healthy bacteria cant renew fast enough before the next days deep cleanse and treatment.
We now know that skin in a chronic low level inflammatory state, ages faster.
Irritated red skin is talking to you - stop the over treatment, it’s too much!
THE BEFORE AND AFTER BELOW CLEARLY demonstrates the power of less.
My client was actively using exfoliation products in order
to even out her skin tone; peels
and scrubs over stimulated
the skin which resulted in inflammaging and hyperpigmentation.
I recommended she stop all peels and precribed
Pink Avenue Med Grade Skin Care.
Within 2 years her skin recovered.
SKIN TREATMENTS - LESS IS MORE
BEFORE AND AFTER 2 YEARS APART
HOW TO REDUCE OVER TREATMENT OF THE SKIN
THE SKIN NEEDS BASICS TO GLOW
CLEANSE. TREAT. HYDRATE. PROTECT.
CLEANSING AND TONING
FIRST STEPS TO SKIN HAPPINESS
Avoid unnecessary multiple cleansing steps.
Invest in ONE quality cleanser, whether a gel, mousse or cream formula depending on your skin type, ie oily, sensitive, dry.
One toner is all you need to rebalance skin hydration, fortifying the skin's barrier defence. Toners should never sting when applied.
Reduce the temperature of water when rinsing the skin. Pat the face dry with a scent free towel.
Calming, hydrating, balancing, cleansers & toners
Serums to calm, sooth, replenish irritated, over treated skin.
treat the skin right
Time to back away from retinol
and Vitamin C (for awhile).
Over treated skin; red, irritated, dry and tight. The skin's natural lipids have likely been compromised with excessive cleansing, scrubbing and peeling. Even the beloved Vitamin C and retinol when used daily can irritate certain skin types.
Its time to pull back on the more potent serum formulas and ease the skin back to bliss with serums that gently, effectively, allow the skin to heal itself with a replenishment of vital bio identical lipids, hyaluronic acid and skin strengthening antioxidants.
SOOTHING, FORTIFYING, FIRMING, CALMING, REBALANCING SERUMS
ABOUT RETINOL, VITAMIN C AND YOUR STRESSED SKIN
OFTEN A LITTLE IS ALL YOUR SKIN NEEDS
We love our retinol and vitamin C. Some skin types cant handle the duo.
Think about when your skin's irritation began. Did you start using Vitamin C or Retinol then?
If so stop using these 2 serums for 3-4 weeks.
If you notice a marked improvement in your skin's irritation,
this could indicateVitamin C and retinol are potential irritants to your skin when overused.
Once your skin has recovered slowly re introduce retinol and Vitamin C back into your beauty routine.
Use retinol no more than 2xs per week as tolerated. Use Vitamin C every few days and gradually in crease use as tolerated.
Vitamin C , RETINOL Serums. GENTLE SKIN RENEWAL FORMULAS
