sovereignsdaughter

For those of you with Adult Acne, this is real information you don't want to miss! I’m sure you’ve seen this term before.   Comedogenic.  Let's b reak it down;    comedo = an impaction of varying size containing a  mixture of sebum (fancy name for our skin’s oil) and  dead skin cells, often known as a “blackhead”;   genic = creating.    The scientific term for “blackhead” is Comedo (many, like me, say Comedone).   The start of every acne pimple is a microscopic blackhead, known as a Microcomedone, which is actually in many of our pores but doesn’t always develop enough to lead to a full blown zit.   A comedogenic ingredient makes the process so much worse, it can aggravate an acne condition, or even start one. Depending on how comedogenic something is, the resulting impaction will build up more and more, potentially creating large, dark blackheads, known as Open Comedones.   These are different from the blackheads on our t-zo...

Multi-Task?   Multi-Mask ! I will get to the multi-tasking skincare issue, next week.  I have a few things to say on the subject, and it really does deserve special attention.  But before that, I’d like to start off with another kind of multi-tasking, from another angle, which is how to deal with different parts of your face doing different things, even when your skincare routine is as optimal as can be.   This may surprise you - only 10% of the world’s population has truly dry skin, ie, doesn’t produce enough oil to keep it lubricated and healthy, while only 10% of the world’s population produces way too much oil.   Everyone else falls in the spectrum in between.   This is why my clinical instructor in beauty school first introduced us to the world of skincare with this adage:   “There is no such thing as Normal Skin” 80% of us have combination skin, either on the dry side or the oily side.  How many of us have dealt with the confusion of parts...