True sensitive skin is thin, delicate, naturally alipic (lacking in oil) skin that some are born with. Easily irritated and more reactive than other skin types, sensitive skin can become blotchy and dry with mild to extreme redness when sensitized.
Sensitive skin should be treated with care. Too much exfoliation and the wrong skincare can quickly turn sensitive skin into sensitized skin.
Sensitized skin may appear with rosacea-like symptoms and not be rosacea. It can present itself as dry, blotchy, inflamed, and with red bumps. Thankfully, some sensitized skins and sensitive skins can be treated with cosmeceutical formulations that reduce redness and comfort the skin.
Sensitized skin can be caused by overprocessing the skin with exfoliants and retinols—the wrong skincare for the skin type. Also, a history of allergies can disrupt the sinus areas on the face creating a red and blotchy look in the skin. Sickness and medications can affect skin. The wrong diet, one that includes too much sugar, lead to glycation. Glycation is excess glucose (sugar) in skin that diminishes the skin’s support fibers—collagen and elastin—that keep us looking young. Glycation can show up on the skin as a diffused redness and blotchiness.
It’s important to have your skin analyzed by a professional esthetician to accurately determine the factors contributing to your skin’s sensitivities. Some aspects to consider are internal and external factors such as health, medications, diet, skincare products, cosmetics, environmental stressors, and stress. Rosacea, eczema, seborrhea, and psoriasis may require an accurate medical diagnosis and care. If as an esthetician you are working with these skin conditions, in facial services or product suggestions, comfort care should be used. Severe cases of any skin issue should be referred to a dermatologist for evaluation and before any treatment or product suggestion is given.
Skincare technology based on science and nature delivers solutions today. The KATHLEEN PEARA SKINCARE FOR LIFE Collections offer multiple products with specific ingredients to treat your unique sensitive skin issues:
- Defensil®-Plus, taken from nature, is a blend of Blackcurrant Seed Oil, Balloon Vine, and Sunflower Oil Concentrate, combined and used for their anti-inflammatory properties.
- Comfrey Extract and Arnica have been used for centuries for soothing and comforting disturbed and inflamed skin.
- Telangyn™ (Acetyl Tetrapeptide-40) reduces the appearance of facial redness and capillary dilation.
- TEGO®Cistus from the flower, leaf and stem of the Cistus Incanus Flower (pink rock rose), has anti-inflammatory, protective and antioxidant properties.
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