Skin Care Routine for Oily-Dry Skin

1. Skin Care Routine for Oily-Dry Skin If you’re like most women, your skin is an enigma. Sometimes it’s dry; other times it feels flaky and scaly (generally known as chapped or atopic dermatitis). It starts to peel one day and then recovers later that same week. The problem? Your gross-out routine isn’t helping matters—should we blame this on hormonal changes during puberty, menopause, or life, or are our skin woes attributed to great weather? The truth is that skin problems can be caused by a combination of factors, including genetics and environmental triggers. To help combat this burning question, I asked my skincare junkie friend Dr. Frank Lee, founder of the Lloyds Medical Group , for some answers. What they revealed was surprising... Chapped: This type of dermatitis develops when your skin's fatty acids react abnormally to dry weather. It results in the release of residual dead skin cells and flakes, or scales. Chapped can be caused by an antiperspirant on sensitive skin. (or poor choice on your part), too much washing with harsh soap (like Ivory soap), but most often it's down to our environment that challenges our skin's natural moisture-keeping process due to fully exploiting environmental triggers like dry air that destroys lipids that hydrate the skin. When this happens, our skin's lipids break down and become reactive, causing a disruption in harmony which can lead to dry flaking and scaling as well as eczema flare-ups. Basetopic usually develops when your oil glands are compromised before eventually shutting off-sort of like if you were dehydrated from fasting for 2 months. Then there's atopy for those who have sensitive/allergenic skin and are thus susceptible to eczema flare-ups. This is also called contact dermatitis, whereby you are accidentally stung by something like nettle or poison ivy. It's sometimes genetic, but if it seems to be hitting your skin after repeated episodes of cold weather, we'd rule out reoccurring atopy. In addition, dermatitis can occur due to other environmental triggers that cause tissue injury and irritate the body, which brings about a reaction in areas where there may not be a great deal of dry flaking. In fact, in most cases, only the arms and face would be affected. The reason for this is that blood circulation continues to supply nutrients into these areas, which is unlike down under, where the arms don't get access to skincare ingredients, but what they do have could benefit from them, so there's no harm stemming from using creams on these parts! Basically, you've got 3 things going wrong. Dry skin: the body's natural oil production process is disrupted, making skin appear dry and patchy. Friction is a particular irritant that causes inflammation rather than dryness.

2. Skin dysfunction and excess free radicals cause red blemishes to develop. Shown here are examples of what can result should you experience this at times. It often occurs when an irritated area becomes dehydrated followed by friction (eczema) or direct sun exposure, leading to sensitive reactions.