Dr. Hauschka Care Concept • Your guide to getting started
Dr. Hauschka does things a little differently from what you may be used to, so this gives you the steps for your daily and weekly skin care rituals for a healthy, balanced, toned and radiant skin.
The first step to healthy and radiant skin is to cleanse using our Organic Compress Cloth or a thick face flannel and cleansers that respect your skin’s pH and hydrolipid layer. This best cleansing practice achieves a deeper cleanse, you’ll use your cleansers more economically and your skin will feel much softer, without the need for harsh exfoliants.
We call it ‘Compress & Hydrate’
1) Pour a little Dr. Hauschka Bath Essence into your basin.
2) Half fill your basin with hand hot water.
3) Soak your organic cotton compress or thick face flannel in the water.
4) Wring out the compress or face flannel and apply to face and hold, take a moment to smell the aromatics from the Bath Essence also. Repeat for neck and décolleté.
5) Cleanse in the morning with Cleansing Cream or in the evening with Soothing Cleansing Milk.
6) Repeat 3) and 4)
7) Cleanse again.
8) Your final compress must be a cold compress. This technique activates a minute muscle and as it contracts that removes any remaining dirt.
MORNING
1) Compress and hydrate and use highly concentrated Cleansing Cream for all skin conditions.
a) Mix 1-2 cms with a little water to make an emulsion in the palms of your hands.
b) Then 'press and roll' it into your skin in a wave like motion, which creates an almost suction effect for a deeper cleanse. Start from your forehead, then centre of your face and moving outwards, then down the neck and décolleté. There’s an application video which makes it easier to understand below.
Cleansing Cream is a deep cleanser after the night time regeneration and elimination phases of your skin. It's respectful of your skin's pH and hydrolipid layer, so your skin will feel cleansed but not stripped, it will feel comfortable.
2) Facial Toner for normal, dry, mature or sensitive skin or Clarifying Toner for oily or combination skin prone to pimples . Just close eyes and mist directly onto your skin. Our Toner isn't like a conventional toner that it used on a cotton pad to remove residual cleanser/make-up, it's a hydrating botanical treatment product.
3) This step only if you have maturing skin that needs the specific support then use Regenerating Serum. Only 1-2 pumps on skin still moist from Toner.
4) Moisturiser - see Finding Your Perfect Moisturiser
All our moisturisers are concentrated and are formulated to be applied as follows:
Warm around a pea size of your tube moisturiser between the palms of your hands. This melts the waxes and warms the oils ready for absorption. Clarifying Day Oil for oily skin prone to pimples, warm just 2-3 drops and apply. Day Lotions 1-2 pumps or apply 1 pump for face, 1 pump for décolleté.
Apply to your skin gently or press with the palms of your hands on skin that's still moist from Toner. Our moisturisers are not designed to be applied to dry skin. Toner locks in hydration, aids absorption of your moisturiser and ensures even and economical application of your moisturiser.
5) Coverstick is our ‘must-have’ pimple product for any skin condition that experiences break-outs. Apply the moment you see a pimple and reapply regularly.
6) Foundation, if used for colour and care.
EVENING
1) Give Eye Make-up Remover a shake to combine the two-phase product, moisten a cotton pad slightly, add a little Eye Make-up Remover and hold to your eye for a moment and gently swipe.
2) Soothing Cleansing Milk is your make-up remover and cleanses your skin from the dirt, dust and pollution your skin picks up during the day. Moisten face with water, apply one pump, remove with warm moist Cleansing Sponge or Organic Cotton Cloth. Secondary cleanse another pump.
You may prefer to use Cleansing Cream as your secondary cleanse, for a deeper cleanse, particularly if your skin suffers from pimples.
Always complete your cleanse with splashes of cold water. This simple technique contracts a minute muscle next to the hair follicles, helping to remove any remaining dirt and it keeps your skin soft.
3) Facial Toner or Clarifying Toner close eyes and mist.
4) Regenerating Serum, 1-2 pumps applied on skin still moist from Toner, for mature skin, or use Night Serum, about the size of your little fingernail applied on skin still moist from Toner, which suits all skin conditions.
We don't agree with the use of night creams or eye creams at night, which is likely to give puffy eyes in the morning. It's important your skin has just Toner and Serum oil-free products that support your night time regeneration and elimination functions of your skin. Heavy night creams impede this natural process. One month, skin cell cycle is 28 days, on a Dr. Hauschka regime and you’ll need no more convincing. Wake up to revitalised and refreshed skin!
Weekly skin care rituals
After cleansing use Clarifying Steam Bath and Clarifying Clay Mask. Once Clay Mask is removed immediately apply your optimum choice of Cream Mask.
On another night of the week, after cleansing and toning, apply Cream Mask. Revitalising, Hydrating, Soothing or Firming.
We recommend to cleanse early in the evening, apply Cream Mask, including to eye contour area as an eye mask, leave on as long as possible to absorb, remove with a tepid moist cloth before bed.
Seasonal skin care rituals
Use Renewing Night Conditioner or Sensitive Care Conditioner instead of Toner and Serum for 28-30 nights as a treatment. This mirrors skin cell cycle of 28-30 days. Renewing Night Conditioner is helpful during times of transition such as new Dr. Hauschka customers as they detox from conventional skin products and night cream use. Also highly recommended during spring and autumn as the transitional seasons.
Intensive Treatments are also an entire treatment in a bottle, however they are used morning and evening instead of Toner and Serum for a month.
Annual skin care rituals
An example of incorporating treatments in annual skin care ritual for a maturing skin:
Spring and autumn do a one month Renewing Night Conditioner treatment instead of Toner/Serum.
Summer and winter do a one month Regenerating Intensive Treatment instead of Toner/Serum.
Dr. Hauschka skin care and make-up
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Dr. Hauschka skin care has over 50 years of pioneering work in authentic holistic skin care, creating what we believe to be the most pure and effective natural and organic skin care products available today.
Formulations are created using the highest quality natural ingredients with a preference for high vitality biodynamic, organic or responsibly wild harvested botanical ingredients.
We have our own biodynamic medicinal plant garden and grow many other plants at our Demeter certified farm nearby. Where ingredients flourish in different climates we have in many cases instigated, and work with organic or biodynamic cultivation partnerships, with fair, socially responsible and ethical practices. See Dr. Hauschka Cosmos Values.
Product efficacy is based on our unique skin care philosophy, application techniques, rhythmic processes, daily skin care rituals and care concept, plus our unique oil-free night care concept to wake with revitalised and refreshed skin in the morning.
Luxurious and performance skin care that delivers results while encouraging and supporting a healthy functioning, balanced, toned and radiant skin.
Dr. Hauschka has an extensive range of face care including Regenerating range to provide specific support for maturing skin, and also an extensive body care range.
Get back to nature - your skin will thank you for it!
Our biodynamic medicinal plant garden
Dr. Hauschka Quality
Truly 100% natural and/or organic skin care and make-up, NATRUE certified
Free from synthetic chemical fragrances, colours and preservatives
Free from mineral oils, silicone and PEG
Dermatologically tested for sensitive skin
No animal testing
Wherever possible, all raw materials come from controlled organic or biodynamic cultivation, and are recovered under fair conditions