When you find out your skin type, you can easily adopt a more beneficial skincare routine and achieve better results!
Your skin type is arguably the most important factor to consider when building a skincare routine. There are five main skin types—oily, normal, combination, dry, and sensitive—and each comes with its own set of benefits and challenges. While everyone needs the essentials (think cleanser, moisturizer, and SPF), the best formulas for each skin type can vary immensely. Understanding where your skin falls on the skin type spectrum is therefore key if you want to build a routine that truly works for you.
If you’re wondering, “how do I know my skin type?” don’t worry: I’m here to help (no lengthy skin type quiz needed). Here, you’ll learn two simple methods for identifying your skin type at home.
What Are The Five Basic Skin Types?
Oily Skin: Oily skin is characterized by a higher-than-average production of sebum, skin’s natural oil. This excess oiliness can make the skin appear shiny or greasy and is often accompanied by skin concerns like blackheads and enlarged pores. As clogged pores are a major contributor to breakouts, those with oily skin may also be prone to breakouts. ( the natural acne clearing approach)
Dry Skin: Dry skin is the opposite of oily skin—it’s skin that doesn’t have enough oil. It may look dull or feel tight, while severe dryness can cause the skin to crack, flake, or peel. Dry skin and dehydrated skin are sometimes used interchangeably, but they’re not the same thing—dehydration is a lack of water, and that can happen to anyone, regardless of skin type.
Combination Skin: Just like you hear it, combination skin is a blend of oily and dry/normal skin. It is typically characterized by oily skin in some areas of your skin and normal or dry skin in other areas.Oil prone areas include areas of the T-Zone( forehead, nose and chin). The dry areas persist in the cheeks, along the jaw and hairline.
Sensitive Skin: Sensitive skin is characterized by a heightened sensitivity to stressors, including some skincare products, foods, heat, touch etc. but mostly to skincare ingredients that are hard chemicals. Degrees of sensitivity can vary: Some people only experience mild irritation when exposed to stressors, while others struggle with redness, itching, and discomfort regularly. That being said, sensitivity isn’t always visible—sometimes, it’s just about how the skin feels.
At Pure i took it as a mission to help people with sensitive skin find their best beauty routine and not give up on their beauty!– visit Pure Natural Salon for a tailored, personal facial, that will be just right for you and you will experience leaving a salon with a calm, glowing skin, not a red and hurt one!
Normal Skin: While we’d argue all skin is normal, in skincare, normal refers specifically to skin that’s well-balanced and displays no persistent skin concerns. Normal skin is not prone to breakouts, flakiness or feeling greasy. Normal skin is the perfect balance of dry and oily skin; people with normal skin have a smooth and elastic skin texture.
Can Your Skin Type Change?
Here’s where it gets complicated—your skin type can change (and probably will, at some point). When you’re a teenager, for example, it’s pretty common to have oily or blemish-prone skin. However, it doesn’t mean that you’ll have oily skin forever. In fact, as you get older, your skin gets drier (along with a host of other changes we’re not going to get into here). It’s therefore not uncommon to have oily skin when you’re young and drier skin as you get older. Also, you can experience adults acne, specially women, around the chin, and it’s connected to the monthly cycle and hormons.
Other factors, like the climate you live in, may also influence your skin type: Hot weather and humidity can be linked to oilier skin, while cold, dry air is often associated with dryness. And of course- using traditional, full with chemicals products will make your skin dryer and more sensitive, isn’t it a good reason to switch to the beauty of natural products?….
How to figure out your skin type in 2 simple ways?
Now that you understand the different skin types, you can start taking steps to figure out which one you have. Here, learn two simple methods for identifying your skin type at home.
The Bare-Faced Method
An easy way to determine your skin type is to carefully study your bare skin. You can start by washing your face with a mild natural cleanser, like Pure Face Cleanser, which is gentle enough and chemicals free of course. When you’re done lathering up, gently pat your face dry with a clean towel and refrain from applying any skincare products. After 25-30 minutes, observe your skin—both how it looks and how it feels.
If your skin feels tight and is scaly or flaky, tight and uncomfortable you most likely have dry skin.
If your skin appears glossy throughout and over shiny, you definitely have oily skin
If only your forehead, nose and chin appear oily and the rest seems dry you probably have combination skin.
Irritation and redness indicates sensitive skin.
If your skin feels hydrated and comfortable, and you having none of these concerns probably means you’re blessed with normal skin (congratulations!).
The Tissue Method
Another simple way to determine your skin type at home is to press a clean blotting paper against different areas of your face. Then, hold the sheet up to a light to see how much oil was absorbed: The more oil on the paper, the oilier your skin is likely to be. Similarly, if you see little to no oil, you may have dry skin. Finally, if the blotting sheet reveals minimal oil from your T-zone only, you probably have a combination or normal skin type. For best results, we recommend doing this test around midday or evening—blotting your skin too soon after cleansing can skew the results.
How To Care For Your Skin Type
Knowing your skin type is only part of the equation: You also need to know how to meet your skin type’s primary needs. And, for your information. every facial at Pure Natural Salon is personally tailored for you, including my best tips and understanding how to help you and your skin be the happiest:)
Oily Skin
Oily skin is especially vulnerable to oil-related concerns, such as blemishes, shininess, and clogged pores. Caring for this skin type can seem tricky because it still needs moisture—but not every oil, there are oils that are great for oily skin though. . If you have oily skin, you want to reach for products that provide lightweight hydration and help absorb excess oil without stripping your skin’s natural moisture barrier, which serves as the first line of defense between you and the outside world. –
Recommended products –
Day & Night Oily Skin Face cream
Regular exfoliation can also help keep clogged pores and blemishes to a minimum.- Here is a great recipe for DIY one!
Highly recommended- A tailored, natural professional facial every 6 weeks (you can BOOK HERE)
Discover your summer oily skin tips
Dry Skin
While dryness and dehydration are two different things, the lack of oil present in dry skin makes it less able to retain water. Without sufficient moisture, the skin’s natural moisture barrier can’t work as effectively as it needs to. This leaves the skin vulnerable to a host of concerns, from minor irritation to visible signs of premature aging. The key to caring for dry skin, therefore, is to reach for products that help nurture and protect the skin’s natural moisture barrier.
Besides hydration from within ( yes, yes, drink water!) and more ways to hydrate your skin naturally which you can find here
Emollient ingredients like Argan, butters, vitamins, Hyaluronic acid and more can help restore the skin when it’s dry. You’ll find these Pure signature ingredient in the iconic Ultra Rich Face Cream. Though it has a lightweight feel and absorbs quickly, this effective moisturizer provides instant and long-term hydration and balances the skin’s driest areas. It leaves the skin softer, smoother, and visibly healthier-looking with continued use.
Recommended products:
Ultra Rich Face Cream, Mature Skin Face Cream, Hydration Boost Face Cream, Anti Aging Face Cream
Highly recommended- The Ultra Hydrafafcial – The star of the facials treatments at Pure Salon that will deeply cleanse, peels, hydrate, firm, lift, infuse your skin with tons of goodies and increase collagen, this is seriously THE BEST FACIAL for long lasting beautiful results! (BOOK here)
What is the ULTRA Hydrafacial?
Combination Skin
Combination skin can be tricky to care for since it’s not just a single concern you’re contending with but several conflicting concerns (at the same time). Typically, we recommend those with this skin type reach for gentle treatments that provide lightweight moisture without weighing down or drying out your skin. Balance is key.
Read all about The combination skin routine HERE
Sensitive Skin
When it comes to sensitive skin, use gentle products for your skin. Opt for products with natural soothing ingredients like aloe vera, shea butter and green ingredients. Since sensitive skin is prone to inflammation, it’s important to conduct a patch test before you use any product on your skin. A patch test is used to test if your skin may react negatively to a product. It may take a little time, but a patch test can prevent a skincare disaster. Don’t use any product on your face before you test it on your hand.
Experts generally agree that sensitivity ultimately stems from a disruption in the skin’s natural moisture barrier. When the barrier doesn’t work properly, stressors that it should be able to resist can get past your skin’s weakened defenses and wreak havoc, causing redness and discomfort. To help keep your skin feeling comfortable, we recommend reaching for mild products made specifically for stressed skin.
Recommended Products:
The Sensitive Skin Day & Night Face Cream
Highly recommended – Pure Signature Facial every 6 weeks , the facial where we will go step by step and create your tailored and personal facial which will not irritate your skin and finally you will go out of a salon with a calm, glowing skin! (BOOK here)
Discover more about sensitive skin
Normal Skin
Last but not least is normal skin—the easiest skin type to care for. Since those with normal skin don’t have any major concerns to address, your priorities should simply be maintaining your skin’s natural balance. Your routine should include, at a minimum, a gentle cleanser, a lightweight moisturizer, and a broad-spectrum sunscreen to help protect your skin from the sun’s damaging rays.
Recommended products:
Normal Skin Day & Night Face Cream With SPF
Pure Signature Facial every 6 weeks – read here about The Face treatments at Pure Natural Salon
Skin care tips for every type
- Keep yourself adequately hydrated.
- Moisturize your skin regularly.
- Maintain a professional facial treatment every 4-6 weeks
- Don’t sleep with makeup on. Make sure to wipe it off before you go to sleep.
- Avoid over exfoliating your skin. Any exfoliating you do shouldn’t last over one minute. Anything beyond 60 seconds can damage your skin.
- Eat a healthy diet. Focus more on consuming fruits and green leafy vegetables rather than sugary and junk foods.
- Practice good hygiene and avoid bad habits like picking at pimples.
- Keep yourself protected from direct sunlight by wearing sunscreen, hats or sunglasses.
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