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MEN'S SKINCARE

orangedevil — Wed, 29 Jan 2014 17:35:17 +0800

Basic skincare steps:

1. Cleanser

Why?
Remove dirt, oil and perspiration.
When?
Morning and night
How?
Choose a cleanser made for your skin type; normal, dry, oily, or sensitive.
What?
Normal
Cellex-C Betaplex Gentle Foaming Cleanser
Oily
Bioderma Sensibio DS Foaming Gel
Dry
La Roche-Posay Toleriane Dermo-Cleanser
Sensitive
Pevonia Botanica Sensitive Skin Cleanser

2. Toner
Why?
Softening while providing skin repairing ingredients.
When?
Morning and night
What?
For all skin types
MD Formulations Moisture Defense Antioxidant Spray

3. Exfoliant
Why?
AHA exfoliates skin surface
BHA exfoliates skin surface and inside the pores
When?
Once or twice a day, depending on your skin's sensitivity
How?
Choose AHA if you have dry skin
Choose BHA if you have oily skin, breakout-prone and blackheads
What?
A well formulated AHA:
Olay Regenerist Night Resurfacing Elixir
A well formulated BHA:
Clinique Mild Clarifying Lotion

4. Moisturizer with sunscreen
Why?
Moisturizer provides hydration while offering skin a range of antioxidants and skin-beneficial ingredients. Sunscreen prevents you from getting wrinkles, brown spots, broken capillaries, loss of elasticity, texture problems, and dryness.
When?
Morning
How?
Choose one that is made for your skin type; normal, dry, oily, or sensitive.
What?
Normal to Dry
Clinique Sun SPF 30 Face Cream
Normal to Oily
SkinCeuticals Sheer Physical UV Defense SPF 50
Sensitive
Obagi Nu-Derm Physical UV Block SPF 32

5. Moisturizer without sunscreen
Why?
Provides hydration while offering skin a range of antioxidants and skin-beneficial ingredients.
When?
Night
How?
Choose one that is made for your skin type; normal, dry, oily, or sensitive.
What?
All skin type
MD Formulations Moisture Defense Antioxidant Hydrating Gel
Dry
Peter Thomas Roth Glycolic Acid 10% Moisturizer
Sensitive
Clinique Super Rescue Antioxidant Night Moisturizer

Follow this steps and your skin issues, whether it's dryness, oiliness, acne, wrinkle, redness, blackheads, whiteheads, or dullness will improve significantly.
Good luck!

BLACKHEADS

orangedevil — Tue, 28 Jan 2014 18:31:03 +0800

How do blackheads form?

1. Hormones cause excess oil
2. Excess oil clogs the pores
3. The clogged oil mixed with dead skin cells
4. These two exposed to air, oxidizes and turns black

What to do to get rid of blackheads?
1. Restore normal oil production by improving pore linings
2. Remove dead surface skin
3. Reduce and absorb excess oil

What to use to get rid of blackheads?
1. Use gentle, water-soluble cleansers. Absolutely no irritating ingredients eg alcohol, menthol
2. Use gel or light liquid moisturizer as creams can clog pores. No irritating ingredients in your moisturizer eg lime, fragrance
3. Use a good salicylic acid (BHA) daily.
4. Absorb excess oil with blotting papers and clay mask.

What not to do?
Don't use scrubs such as its usually too abrasive and it will damage the skin barrier.
Don't use pore strips as they are very harsh on the skin and the blackheads will come back in a few days.

If you want to know which cleanser, moisturizer, BHA, or clay masks to use for blackheads, read this blog
http://www.lollyface.com/blogs/news/116949...move-blackheads
Really informative and effective information.

BLACKHEADS

orangedevil — Tue, 28 Jan 2014 18:05:26 +0800

How do blackheads form?

1. Hormones cause excess oil
2. Excess oil clogs the pores
3. The clogged oil mixed with dead skin cells
4. These two exposed to air, oxidizes and turns black

What to do to get rid of blackheads?
1. Restore normal oil production by improving pore linings
2. Remove dead surface skin
3. Reduce and absorb excess oil

What to use to get rid of blackheads?
1. Use gentle, water-soluble cleansers. Absolutely no irritating ingredients eg alcohol, menthol
2. Use gel or light liquid moisturizer as creams can clog pores. No irritating ingredients in your moisturizer eg lime, fragrance
3. Use a good salicylic acid (BHA) daily.
4. Absorb excess oil with blotting papers and clay mask.

What not to do?
Don't use scrubs such as its usually too abrasive and it will damage the skin barrier.
Don't use pore strips as they are very harsh on the skin and the blackheads will come back in a few days.

If you want to know which products to use, read this blog
http://www.lollyface.com/blogs/news/116949...move-blackheads
Really informative and effective information.