Easy Daily Skincare Routine at Home for Dry, Oily, and Combination Skin
Daily skincare routine at home can be easy with fewer steps if you do it properly and regularly.
Caring for your skin starts with knowing what type it is. Here is a quick guide to understand which skin type you have. It’s not always easy—for instance, you may suspect you need an oily skincare routine, while you actually have a combination skin. In the same way, you need to find your specific skincare routine that’s best suited to the needs of your type of skin.
Scroll ahead to understand the 3 main types of skin and what skincare routine you need to follow for each of them.
Dry Skin
What Is it Like to Have Dry Skin?
Pores that are close to invisible, dull complexion, and rough texture. Dry skin has a higher tendency to develop fine lines and wrinkles, and sometimes, even red patches.
Skincare Routine for Dry Skin
Cleanse your face twice a day with a moisturizing, gentle cleanser.
Apply a hydrating moisturizer. A Moisturizer for dry skin needs to be hydrating, but make sure it doesn’t clog your pores.
Top it up with a hydrating sunscreen.
Apply moisturizer every time you cleanse your face and every time your skin feels dehydrated since your skin is the thirsty type. This will help minimize the lines and soothe the skin.
Make sure you apply the moisturizer while your skin is still a tad damp to help absorb the hydration.
Pro-tip: You can also apply honey regularly to keep your dry skin hydrated. Honey also makes the skin firm, soft, and radiant.
Use face moisturizers with hydrating ingredients.
Also, don’t over-exfoliate. Exfoliate gently and only once a week.
Oily skin
What Is It Like to Have Oily Skin?
Oily skin has more sebum, which creates enlarged pores and shiny complexion. One good side of having oily skin is that oily skin shows a much slower rate of aging. Unlike dry skin, which shows aging signs much faster, your oily skin is easily able to camouflage the fine lines and wrinkles. Plus, your skin generally has that natural glow all the time.
Skincare Routine for Oily Skin:
Your oily and shiny skin might tempt you to wash your face more than what’s required. But you need to realize, that over-cleansing isn’t going to help but will only make things worse by damaging the skin’s barrier and EVEN MORE oil production. Hence, make sure you limit cleansing to twice a day.
Use a mild yet effective cleanser that’s oily skin-friendly and doesn’t snatch your skin of its essential oils.
Regular (but not excessive) exfoliation is key. It helps remove dead skin, making your skin look firmer and brighter, and promotes collagen production. Just make sure you use a gentle scrub and don’t go to rough on your skin.
NEVER SKIP MOISTURIZER. A lot of people think that since they have oily skin, they don’t need moisturizer. But that’s a mistake that will cost you in the long run. Use the best moisturizer for oily skin; that is—one that’s hydrating, lightweight, and supports oil control.
Make sunscreen part of your regular skincare routine for oily skin, no matter what season it is and no matter if you’re going out or staying home. It helps prevent the over-secretion of sebum caused by the sun, and also fights signs of early-aging. Try and use a matte sunscreen for oily skin.
Combination skin
What Is It Like to Have Combination Skin?
Some say you’re blessed if you’ve combination skin, while others say it’s a bane because you never know! You can get acne on your t-zone, but have flaky skin on your cheeks. Your skin has the best and worst of both worlds—extra dryness in some parts, excessive oil production in others, generally on the T-zone. So, your nose, chin, and forehead might be oily, but your cheeks dry.
It can be tricky to decide what your skincare should be like. So, we will help you decide.
Skincare Routine for Combination Skin
The best way is to start with a gentle cleanser.
Follow it up with a hydrating but non-sticky moisturizer. Make sure it has hydrating ingredients like hyaluronic acid and glycerin that are oil-free too.
If some areas of your face are drier than others, you may want to apply moisturizer on them more frequently.
Observe and work according to what works best for the oily and dry parts of your skin.
Never skip sunscreen out of your skincare routine no matter which skin type you have. Try and find a good, non-sticky but hydrating serum-based sunscreen for your combination skin.
We’re sure that by now you must be sure as to what your skin type is. So, pick the best daily skin care routine at home and tell us in the comments below if it works for you! If we have missed out on anything, tell us and we’d be glad to add! You can also drop in your dry, oily, and combination skincare questions in the comments section and our beauty experts will be happy to help you. Have a happy summer, XOXO, darlings!
