Dealing with sensitive skin can be a little tougher than we can handle sometimes. Itching, flaking, peeling, irritation, dry patches, oily patches, and blemishes are all hallmarks of skin that just can’t seem to make up its mind.
Trying new products can also be scary. Once you finally find something that works, you tend to stick with it and avoid anything that could trigger your skin to erupt in a patch of irritation and discomfort. That doesn’t leave a lot of room for trying anti-aging serums, brightening creams, or even experimenting with new makeup.
Thankfully, it is definitely possible to regain control of your super-sensitive skin and even bring about lasting, real change that results in better, healthier, more controllable skin.
With the right products and the right sensitive skin care routine, you can notice a change in your skin from off-balance to even keeled.
The Detox Market specializes in helping detox your skin and body from toxins that could be harsh and harmful.
Detoxing your skin can help you get healthier, more manageable skin, and can also help you decrease skin sensitivity. We’ll help you figure out what could be causing your skin sensitivity issues, and help you create a skin care routine that works perfectly for sensitive skin.
What’s Causing the Sensitivity?
If you’ve struggled with sensitive skin your entire life, chances are it’s just in your DNA. If your sensitivity just started in adulthood, there could be an underlying cause. Here are some of the most common.
FREE RADICAL DAMAGE
If you aren’t actively protecting your skin against free radicals, you could be creating a sensitive skin issue without even knowing it.
Free radical damage happens when our skin cells are damaged by external stressors like the sun, cigarette smoke, pollution, and even fumes from household cleaning chemicals.
Not sure how free radical damage affects your cells? Free radicals are unbalanced molecules that are produced from the sources listed above. Some free radical damage even occurs naturally in your body. These unbalanced molecules look for balanced molecules.
When free radicals find balanced molecules, they damage them, which causes damage to the cell where the healthy molecule lives. This damage can make your skin look older than it actually is and can even make your skin sensitive.
Free radicals put your skin in a state of constant inflammatory response. This means your skin cells are constantly inflamed, irritated, and attempting to “fight off” what feels like an attack. This can leave your skin in a constant state of irritation that seems to never go away.
CLIMATE AND CONDITIONS
If your skin seems more sensitive during the winter months than it does during the summer (or vice versa) then climate and weather conditions could be to blame. If your skin is already dry to begin with, it’s going to be that much harder to keep it properly hydrated during the winter.
Cold, dry air and indoor heating systems can leach moisture out of your skin, leaving it dry, flaky, and causing serious irritation and even chapping and cracking.
Likewise, summer months can mean increased humidity and extra sweating. Those factors can result in increased breakouts, especially around your hairline and jawline. If you’re especially sensitive to heat, you can even develop heat rash on your skin.
IMPROPER SKIN CARE ROUTINES
We’re probably all a little bit busier than we should be, but if you’re so busy you can’t make time to remove your makeup or wash your face every morning, you could be contributing to your sensitive skin issues.
Your skin does the majority of its restorative and reparative work overnight as you sleep. If you go to bed with your makeup on, you aren’t allowing your skin enough oxygen to carry out necessary processes. You’ll also be setting yourself up for a nice breakout from the old makeup, not to mention probably staining your pillow case.
Just as important as a night routine is a morning routine. While your skin works at night, you sebaceous glands produce oil that is excreted onto your skin. In the morning, that oil can be lifted away along with dirt and oil to help prepare your skin for your products and makeup.
HARSH PRODUCT INGREDIENTS
One of the biggest complaints we hear at The Detox Market is that people are struggling with sensitive skin. The main cause is no longer a secret: toxic beauty is literally making our skin sick.
From parabens to sulfates and even formaldehyde (ew!), the ingredients allowed in U.S. cosmetics are harmful, and are causing our skin to become more and more sensitized. The problem is that the cosmetics industry goes virtually unchecked, allowing more and more harsh chemicals into our products.
Ingredients can cause skin sensitivity immediately of course, but many of the ingredients in toxic beauty products accumulate in our skin and cause sensitivity over time.
Eliminating the sensitivity starts by eliminating the toxins and starting on a clean beauty journey that works to keep your skin healthy and radiant, naturally.
Building a Skin Care Routine for Sensitive Skin
If you’re afraid you’ll never be able to use anti-aging products or find anything to work on your acne, don’t worry. The Detox Market can help you clear the buildup of toxins in your skin and swap out your toxic beauty products for more effective, clean alternatives. Here’s how.
1. DETOX
The first step in building your skin care routine is eliminating the buildup of toxins from your skin. This can be done easily with a few steps:
- Increase your water intake. If you aren’t drinking enough water, it’s crucial to do so while you detox your skin. You don’t need 64 ounces a day, just enough to keep your urine clear.
- Commit to clean beauty products. If you really want to detox your skin and get it healthier, swapping out your unclean products for cleaner, greener, non-toxic products is the only way to get it done. We’ve got the perfect swaps for you below.
- Be patient. A full detox takes about two weeks. During this time you may experience breakouts, but be patient. Breakouts are a good sign, because it means your skin is ridding itself of the toxins inside its cells.
You can build your skin care routine simultaneously while you are detoxing your skin. Using your new clean beauty products will help speed up your detox process.
GET IN A ROUTINE
Rome wasn’t built in a day, and overhauling your beauty bag and bathroom counter probably won’t happen overnight. However, you can definitely make a few immediate swaps that can get your sensitive skin in better shape.
The key is to use clean, natural products that are specifically designed to work synergistically with your skin instead of causing it to have an inflammatory response.
Here are our favorite picks for building a basic skin care routine for sensitive skin:
Cleanser. Your sensitive skin needs a gentle wash that is effective and formulated with safe, clean ingredients. Avoid parabens, sulfates, and fragrance which are often added to cleansers and can cause serious skin irritation.
Product to try: Babo Botanicals Sensitive Skin Fragrance Free Hydra Therapy Wash. The first ingredient in this sulfate, paraben, and fragrance free wash is aloe. Sensitive skin gets the deep clean it needs with zero harsh chemicals to irritate it, and soothing plant botanicals to help calm it.
Moisturize. Every skin type needs moisture, but it can be hard to moisturize skin that is constantly irritated.
Product to try: CV Skinlabs Calming Moisture. Ideal for sensitive skin, this fragrance free blend of antioxidant-rich compounds helps soothe and hydrate even the most sensitive skin types for the ultimate in calming relief.
Emergency treatment. For spot treating areas of eczema, rash, or other irritation, you need a healing solution that doesn’t contain dangerous petroleum products which can interfere with your hormones and cause skin sensitivity.
Product to try: Babo Botanicals Sensitive Skin All Natural Healing Ointment is the perfect way to treat areas of irritation without making them worse. From dryness to itchiness and redness, this soothing, plant botanical based balm is the perfect solution. Non-greasy and fast absorbing, you’ll find this quickly becomes a go-to product for everyone in the family.
These products can help you gently care for your sensitive skin. As your skin heals and becomes stronger and healthier, you can add additional clean beauty products to your lineup, including anti-aging products.
The Detox Market is your most trusted source for clean, non-toxic beauty and skin care products. From cleansing to makeup, we offer everything you need to keep your skin radiant and healthy, no matter how sensitive.
Sources:
//www.aimspress.com/article/id/1670
//www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/heat-rash/symptoms-causes/syc-20373276
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