About You: Oily skin
Characteristics
- A hereditary condition that develops due to overactive sebaceous glands
- Awake with a shiny film on your nose forehead and chin
- Skin is oily to touch
- Make up does not last even for a few hours
- Moderate to severe adolescent acne
- Skin is thick, firm and sallow (yellow complexion)
- Heavy texture (orange peel appearance)
- Oiliness does not end with adolescence
- Skin continues to break out regularly
- Problem / blemished skin due to hormonal changes
- Remains youthful longer as it is less prone to wrinkling
- Open pores that are enlarged due to trapped oil in the pilosebaceous follicle
- Enlarged pores become dehydrated and aggravated
- Congested oily skin is dull and thick
- Open and closed comedones
- Some pustules and is rough to touch
Causes
- Climate that is hot and humid exacerbates condition
- Usually the most abused of all skin types
- If oily skin is continually depleted of its natural oils, the skin will produce more oil/sebum
- Stress and emotions
- Diet
- Occupation
- Hormonal fluctuations
- Hereditary
- Harsh products with high alcohol content, surfactants and detergents that dry the skin
Home Nurturing Ritual
Cleanse day & night: |
gentle foaming cleanser |
Tone day & night: |
organic herbal toner |
Moisturiser day & night: |
aloe vera moisturiser |
Spot treatment: |
sebogel for comedones and pustules |
| Eye Treatment day & night: |
rosehip eye gel |
Exfoliate: |
Every second day with gentle facial exfoliant |
Mask: |
3 times per week with green clay vitamin masque. Milk of Magnesia may also be dabbed onto the skin to assist with alleviating and soothing eruptions |
Notes on facial care
- Extractions: If comedones are difficult to remove, massage with sebogel first
- If skin has lots of pustules exfoliation/massage will tend to spread infection
- Strict hygiene methods must be adhered to
- Do not overheat the skin and treat gently
- Oily skins will become dry if abused preparations that are drying to the skin dry the surface and constrict the pores. As a result sebum becomes blocked on the pilo-sebaceous follicle. Sebum and other skin debris then form closed or open comedones. If the follicle walls are weakened the contents may then leak through to the dermis leading to secondary infections and an inflammatory reaction by the skin that results in a pustule forming.
- Treatment aims to lesson shiny appearance, refine open pores, deeply cleanse, and reduce bacteria on the skin surface