Personalized Skin Care Suggestion for your Combination skin
Combination skin
As the name suggests, combination skin can be oily in some places, dry in others and perhaps normal in others. The T-zone in your face is often used as an example of this where the T itself, your forehead, nose and chin get oily, but the rest of your face is dry. This isn’t always the case, but it is the most common way that combination skin manifests.
It’s also worth noting that combination skin may occur in larger zones around your body and not just your face. For example, your face might be oily but your have dry skin on your arms and legs.
How to identify oily skin
- Pores in oily areas look larger than normal
- Shiny skin in some places and dull skin in others
- Blackheads in some places, but dry irritations in others
Factors that can contribute to combination skin
The same factors that contribute to dry and oily skin also contribute to combination skin. Your skin just happens to be more prone to those factors in some places than others. This can make looking after it a little tricky since you don’t want to add more moisture to oily areas but you do want to hydrate those dry spots!
How to take care of your oily skin
Care is much the same as oily and dry skin, but more topical. Unfortunately, that makes things a little trickier since you should not use the same products all over.
- Don’t use heavy moisturisers on areas that are already oily
- Use lighter, oil-free moisturisers on the oily areas of your skin, like our Sativa Clear Moisturiser for Oily Skin
- Exfoliate gently to help clear clogged pores and remove dead skin
- Avoid fragrances, particularly on the dry areas of your skin
- Use soaps that help to lock in moisture rather than dry the skin out.
