November
2008
How Skin Care Evolves, From Teen Acne to Adult Wrinkles
Many of us, especially those that read this blog, have run the gammut when it comes to how our skincare routines have changed over the years. You start off as a child, probably using whatever your mom and dad provided in the bathtub and shower to wash your face, and then begin to care about how you wash your face when you get into those formative teen years, especially if like many teens you start to see your skin erupting into zits once in a while.
So, you usually go along with one of your parents to the grocery store or your local Target or Wal-mart, and seek out one of the over the counter acne care products, which by the way have exploded over the years since I’ve been a kid, and end up picking out something that is supposed to help acne prone skin but in fact dries it out more than is necessary and in fact may even irritate acne more on those with sensitive skin, which is not uncommon to be coupled with acne.
For those of us who continued to have acne into our twenties and thirties, we then tried to find more gentle products that would not just help with our acne but would also help soften and smooth the skin and give it that glowy look that came in in the mid nineties and hasn’t seemed to lose it’s appeal. So, you opt for a product that may not be on store shelves but instead needs to be purchased at a department or specialty cosmetic store, so you’re moving up in the world. At this point you’ve experienced so many products that you know what’s good and what’s bad for your skin and you’ve discovered what works for your particular brand of skin.
Then we come to now, which is where a lot of people have access to the internet and are able to not only find tons of new products, but are also able to read reviews on products that other people have posted and share their views on acne skin care, but they are also able to access some products that are not available in stores.
We also many times look for products that are gentle and moisturizing, but at the same time noncomedogenic so that we are not just addressing the oil clogging of pores which causes acne, but we are also addressing skin that has begun to age by adding nice extra ingredients such as vitamin C and other soothers.
