Thinking about treating yourself to some new skincare products? While your choice of products should be based on a few different factors, your skin type is the most important. This will help to determine exactly what your skin needs and, therefore, which products you should turn to to meet these requirements.

Not sure where to start? Read on as Lavelier explains how to pick the perfect products for your skin type.

Determining Your Skin Type

First things first – ensuring that you know what your skin type is. There are a few different ways to identify this but the easiest involves cleansing your face with a gentle cleanser before leaving your skin bare for around 30 minutes. After this, take a close look in the mirror to see which of the five main skin types your skin resembles the most:

• Oily skin – this skin type produces more sebum than necessary, which gives the skin a shiny finish. Your skin will likely feel greasy to the touch and you’ll also be prone to clogged pores and acne breakouts.
• Dry skin – dry skin doesn’t produce enough sebum, leaving the skin’s surface feeling dry and rough. Leave your skin bare after cleansing and you’ll likely notice that your skin also takes on an uncomfortably tight sensation.
• Combination skin – this skin type features elements of both dry and oily skin. Some parts of your face will look/feel greasy while others will be dry and rough.
• Sensitive skin – if your skin is easily reactive and prone to redness and inflammation, then this is a sign that your skin type is sensitive.
• Normal skin – not experiencing any of the above? If so, you’re lucky – your skin type is normal and will be relatively problem-free!

Now that you know what your skin type is, move on to the corresponding section below to learn about how to pick the right products for your skin.

Oily Skin

With oily skin producing so much excess sebum, your main focus should be on keeping your complexion as grease-free as possible. Look for lightweight skincare products that will hydrate and nurture your complexion without clogging up your pores. At the same time, make sure that the products you’re using will also keep the feeling of inflammation to a minimum. After all, inflammation will only lead to acne breakouts.

Here are a couple of products that will help you to do just that:

The Oceana Pore Perfection Polish

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A good cleanser is absolutely essential for anyone with oily skin. This skin type requires a powerful formula that will clear away excess sebum from both the surface of the skin as well as pore openings. 

This is where the Lavelier Oceana Pore Perfection Polish comes in. It’s a foaming cleanser, which is the best type of cleanser to use on oily skin due to how it effectively removes sebum. At the same time, it’s a sulfate-free formula so won’t leave your skin dehydrated. Better yet, the peptides and botanical extracts will quickly soothe the feeling of inflammation.

The Mineral Allure Transforming Masque

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Another must-have product for anyone with oily skin is a clay mask. Why? Because clay is a fantastic ingredient for absorbing excess sebum and mattifying the complexion. 

The Lavelier Mineral Allure Transforming Masque boasts two types of clay; bentonite and kaolin. This will take care of any extra oil lingering on your skin while the seaweed extract and glycerin will hydrate with their moisture-binding properties. This means that, unlike many other clay masks, it won’t leave your skin feeling dehydrated.

Dry Skin

Dry skin has the opposite problem of oily skin – it doesn’t produce enough sebum. With sebum responsible for conditioning and lubricating the skin, it’s hardly surprising that this skin type looks dry, cracked, and flaky. To counter this, you’ll need skincare products that compensate for the lack of sebum on your skin. They should give your skin the nutrients it’s missing in order to bring about a softer, smoother, and more supple complexion.

Here are two products that can help with that:

The Marine Evening Repair Cream

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A good moisturizer is crucial for anyone with dry skin. Ideally, a rich formula is needed as this will form a thick barrier over your skin’s surface, just like sebum would.

This is something that the Marine Evening Repair Cream excels at. Dryness often feels worse overnight due to an increase in moisture loss while you sleep, but this cream will help to prevent that. It’s brimming with richly moisturizing ingredients, including shea butter, sweet almond oil, and jojoba seed oil. It’s also packed with vitamins and botanicals to give your skin a youthful glow each morning!

Although this is a night cream, feel free to use it on dry skin at any time of day.

The Oceana Breezy Facial Cleanser

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The skin’s natural protective barrier is partly made up of sebum. This means that dry skin, which doesn’t produce enough sebum, usually suffers from a weaker skin barrier. A good moisturizer, like the one featured above, will help your barrier to feel stronger. However, at the same time, you need to make sure that you aren’t further damaging your barrier, making a gentle cleanser a must.

The best cleanser for dry skin will be a sulfate-free formula that makes use of moisturizing surfactants, just like the Lavelier Oceana Breezy Facial Cleanser. It’s loaded with ingredients that will keep your skin feeling calm and supple, including argan oil, chamomile extract, aloe vera extract, and coral seaweed extract.

Combination Skin

Combination skin can be a tricky skin type to deal with. Ideally, rather than having two separate skincare routines for the dry and oily parts of your face, you should be using skincare products that are safe for use on both oily and dry skin. 

Here are two that meet the mark:

The Nano Gold Serum

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The Lavelier Nano Gold Serum is all about hydrating the skin while treating it to a rich array of antioxidants. It has been formulated with some of the most advanced ingredients in the industry, including peptides and plant extracts.

Thanks to a few choice ingredients, including green tea extract and acetyl hexapeptide-8, this serum is also capable of reducing the appearance of skin aging. It will quickly smooth out the look of wrinkles while firming up the appearance of loose skin.

The Moisture Allure Cream

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Moisturizing combination skin can be difficult. Although it’s an essential step in any routine, it’s not easy to find a moisturizer that’s rich enough for dry skin but lightweight enough for oily skin. This is why the Lavelier Moisture Allure Cream is such a hit!

This cream hydrates with a blend of coral seaweed, aloe vera, and glycerin. All are lightweight ingredients yet their moisture-binding qualities will keep skin cells feeling quenched. Meanwhile, retinyl palmitate is a gentle form of vitamin A. It helps with a wide variety of visible skin concerns but, unlike other vitamin A derivatives, is mild enough to be used on the dry areas of your skin.

Sensitive Skin

Sensitive skin can be caused by a few different factors but, either way, it means that you have a compromised skin barrier. As a result, irritants are able to enter into the deeper layers of your skin much more easily. This is why your skin is so easily reactive. 

As you can imagine, finding skincare products for this skin type can be difficult. While that may be the case, here are two that won’t let you down:

The Marine Facial Toner

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Cleansing can really take its toll on sensitive skin. Even with a gentle cleanser, you’ll still be causing some disruption to your skin’s already-disturbed natural barrier. To keep your complexion calm and happy after it has been cleansed, consider adding Lavelier’s Marine Facial Toner to your skincare routine. 

This formula has quite a short ingredient list, keeping the appearance of potential irritation to a minimum. The compounds that you’ll find in this toner are all loved for how they calm and soothe the feel of the skin, making it ideal for those who are prone to sensitivities.

The HydroTherm Sauna Serum

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It can be a challenge to find a vitamin C serum that doesn’t cause sensitive skin to react. This can be disappointing because vitamin C has so many benefits to offer to this skin type! 

The key is to look for a formula that uses a stable form of vitamin C and combines this with complexion-soothing ingredients, just like the Lavelier HydroTherm Sauna Serum does. Apply this to your skin each day and not only will your skin start to look healthier, but it will feel less sensitive too.

Normal Skin

If your skin type is normal, you’re in the minority. It’s the rarest skin type because it means that your skin is pretty much perfectly balanced in every way. 

While that may be the case, you shouldn’t neglect your complexion because of this. Instead, work on maintaining that harmony while preventing any damage, with this product being ideal for this:

The Divine Day Defense SPF 30

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Meet the Lavelier Divine Day Defense SPF 30 – an SPF moisturizer that feels absolutely exquisite on the skin. This is rare when it comes to sunscreen formulas, with many feeling overly thick, heavy, or greasy.

This cream, on the other hand, boasts a silky and light texture that feels weightless on the skin. With broad-spectrum SPF 30 protection, you won’t need to worry about UV damage for a couple of hours after applying this product. Thanks to how quickly it melts into the skin, reapplying it throughout the day feels more like a treat than a chore, making you far more likely to be diligent with your sun protection efforts.

Summary

As you can see, each skin type has some very different needs. This is exactly why it’s so important to keep your skincare in mind when choosing new products. Pick products that are suitable for your skin’s specific needs and you’ll start to see much better results from your skincare routine, along with a much healthier-looking complexion too!

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