Combination skin.
MORNING SKIN CARE RITUAL: Cleansing Cream, Clarifying Toner and Melissa Day Cream. Coverstick if needed for pimples.
EVENING SKIN CARE RITUAL: Cleansing Balm for light make-up or Soothing Cleansing Milk with medium to heavy make-up. If you don’t use make-up cleanse with your Cleansing Cream. We recommend a double cleanse if you use make-up, once to remove the make-up, dirt and dust your skin picks up during the day and a secondary cleanse to cleanse your skin, use either Cleansing Cream or Cleansing Balm for your second cleanse. Follow with Clarifying Toner and Night Serum.
Your combination skin type may have normal to dry cheeks with an oily T-zone or maybe it’s around the other way. The challenges are make-up disappearing by lunchtime, more so in warm weather, and an oily shine. So, let’s chat about your best natural skin care for your combination skin type and check out your recommended products and daily skin care rituals to help regulate and balance your skin.
Effective and gentle cleansing is the first step towards balancing your combination skin, so as to not disrupt the naturally acidic pH of your skin, which protects your skin against bacteria.
1. We recommend Cleansing Cream, which is not a make-up remover, but it is a deep cleanser which is ideal in the morning, because overnight your skin has been busy as an elimination organ, that’s why you often wake up to a new pimple, and skin also does its regeneration work overnight. Watch the Cleansing Cream application video because you use it a bit differently than what you may be used to.
Cleansing Cream Application: Mix around 1-2cm with water to make a creamy emulsion between the palms of your hands. Then ‘press and roll’ it onto your skin, moving from centre to outwards, in the direction of your lymph and repeat 2-3 times. This technique creates a suction type effect and almond meal is adept at binding to sebum and impurities.
2. Our Clarifying Toner is used by closing your eyes and misting directly onto your skin. It contains antibacterial echinacea, daisy, witch hazel and nasturtium help minimise the appearance of blackheads and pimples, visibly refine pores and reduce excessive oiliness. Anthyllis guides your skin to a balanced state for a more calm, even appearance.
3. Melissa Day Cream was specially developed for combination skin. The medicinal plant melissa (lemon balm) mediates between dry and oily areas of your skin. Tapioca starch is included in the formulation to help control oily shine and to provide a matte finish. Place around a pea size into the palm of your hand, warm it between both palms and then apply to your skin, which is still moist from Clarifying Toner. It will absorb rapidly, and it’s also an ideal base for makeup.
TIPS:
Your must-have pimple product is Coverstick. Apply as soon as you see a pimple and reapply regularly.
If you use makeup, use a clean beauty Foundation. Alternatively mix a little Translucent Bronzing Tint with your Melissa Day Cream.
Extra Care: We highly recommend once a week a Clarifying Steam Bath in your hand hot basin water with Organic Cotton Compress Cloth to soften pores, followed by Clarifying Clay Mask to further deep cleanse, remove impurities and provide gentle exfoliation. Once dry the Clay Mask is removed efficiently by re-moistening and wiping away with Cleansing Sponge. Ideally follow-up with Revitalising Mask.
Recommended products for combination skin below:
