Your skin and menopause
Menopause is a time of transition as your body goes through a lot of changes. You may experience hot flushes as oestrogen levels drop, mood swings, aches and pains, sleep disruption, and your skin may become increasingly dry, you may also experience increased skin sensitivity. Alternatively you may experience pimples or rosacea.
It’s also a time when it’s likely you can give yourself more time to support both your inner and outer beauty. Hopefully there will be less stress and less demands upon you, leaving more time to make new plans, feel more empowered and embrace the beautiful and wise woman you are!
Recommended for menopausal and post-menopausal skin
Regenerating Oil Serum Intensive and Regenerating Day Cream Intensive, are partner products and targeted specifically to support a maturing skin that’s becoming increasingly dry and may also be experiencing increased sensitivity. Usually recommended at 50 to 55 years plus.
Check in with your skin during such a transitional time. Some days your skin may only need Regenerating Day Cream Intensive. However, on days where your skin feels dry or needing more nourishment add 2-3 drops Regenerating Oil Serum Intensive to your Regenerating Day Cream Intensive prior to application. The oil serum enhances the effect of the day cream. If you need more protection against the elements, then apply your drops of oil serum after applying day cream.
Rose is a warming ingredient and therefore hot flushes may be so problematic that using warming rose based products such as Rose Day Cream and/or Firming Mask may no longer be appropriate for this stage. Instead switch to Regenerating Intensive products, as above, or products with cooling properties that don’t specifically warm your skin, such as Quince Day Cream or Apricot Day Cream.
One of our favourite cooling beauty tips is to cleanse and tone as usual, but apply Soothing Mask as your day cream once or twice a week for extra calming and cooling nourishment.
Put the colour back in for a pale or pallid skin
Tinted Day Cream, the original BB cream, is a great alternative too. As we age our skin becomes a little pallid, so rich Tinted Day Cream puts the warm tones back into your skin, helps to even skin tone and provides plenty of moisture and a dewy finish for a dry to very dry skin. Alternatively mix a little Translucent Bronzing Tint into your moisturiser prior to application.
Some women experience acne or pimples during menopause
Skin care products may need to change to reflect your current skin condition. Coverstick and Clarifying Day Oil are great companions if you are experiencing breakouts as they both assist the inflammation and breakouts to bring your skin back into a state of balance.
Deep cleansing is really important for maturing skin
Once a week deep cleanse with Clarifying Steam Bath in your basin water with your Organic Cotton Compress Cloth to soften pores ensuring a deeper cleanse. Apply Clarifying Clay Mask. Once dry remove with moist cloth or Cleansing Sponge. Then apply your best choice Cream Mask, leaving on to absorb for a long as possible. Deep cleansing is really important for maturing skin as is the intensive care boost Cream Masks give to your skin.
On another night of the week do another Cream Mask, bringing it to twice weekly mask care.
Other women experience extreme dryness (lack of oil) and/or dehydration (lack of water). Use Hydrating Cream Mask twice weekly for a boost. You may also use Hydrating Mask as your daily moisturiser until condition improves, or mix a little Hydrating Mask into your usual moisturiser for a boost for one month, a skin cell cycle.
specific support for your skin During Menopause
Intensive Treatment for Menopausal Skin
For skin during menopause with redness and pigmentation problems.
Druing menopause give your skin the special care it needs with Intensive Treatment for Menopausal Skin.
During the 28-day treatment period, your skin will benefit from a boost of balancing and fortifying extracts. Our Intensive Treatment for Menopausal Skin helps counterbalance the skin’s decreasing vitality.
While using a Intensive Treatment for Menopausal Skin, there’s no need to use your usual Facial Toner and/or Regenerating Serum.
Dr. Hauschka Intensive Treatments are formulated for skin that has lost its natural balance and requires focused care. Intensive Treatment for Menopausal Skin supports your skin’s natural processes of renewal and diminishes the appearance of blotchiness and spots for a calm, even complexion.
Rose distillate works with rhythmitised dilutions of daisy, black cohosh and precious stones argentite and ruby powder to revitalise dull, lifeless skin and helps reduce the appearance of redness and irregular pigmentation.
Black cohosh is well known for its use during menopause. Its rhizomes survive the winter, and it is these life-bearing rootstocks that are processed. They are much appreciated in particular during the phase of change surrounding the menopause. The black cohosh extract in Dr. Hauschka Skin Care products is prepared using our own special rhythmic process.
Rubies are red, so aligning with some of our homeopathic guidelines of ‘like treats like’, red treats redness. Ruby has a harmonising effect on the skin helping to reduce the appearance of redness and blotchiness.
Argentite is a bluish-grey-to-black silver mineral with a metallic sheen. In combination with the other ingredients in Intensive Treatment for Menopausal Skin, argentite supports the skin’s own processes of renewal.
How to use Intensive Treatment for Menopausal Skin:
Skin cells are renewed every 28 days. Mirroring this same regenerative cycle, Intensive Treatments should be used as a 28 day entire treatment in the one bottle. Intensive Treatments work most effectively when used four times a year as a stimulus. Do one 28-day treatment each season of the year. After morning and evening cleansing, mist 4-5 pumps onto the face, neck and décolleté then gently press into the skin. In the evening use instead of Toner or Serum.
You may be interested to visit the Australasian Menopause Society.
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