The Spring Cleaning Series is brought to you by Dr. LeWinn’s
Spring is the ideal time to build up your skin’s barrier that may have crumbled through a chaotic winter.
Know the areas that may need addressing – is it irritated? Inflamed? Undernourished? These seven essential steps designed to shake up your skin routine will ensure blooming radiance all season.
1. A Double Cleanse
Speak to any skin expert and they’ll agree the secret to youthful skin is double cleansing. Think you don’t have time? Think again. Try a two-step approach to treat, soften and properly cleanse your skin daily and reap the rewards in as little as one week.
You’re using: Just one cleanser
Rescu. Recommends: Double cleansing
First cleanse: A hydrating cream or oil cleanser is your fresh solution to melt off makeup while replenishing moisture and preventing tightness. Tight skin is dehydrated skin.
Second Cleanse: A PH balanced foaming cleanser will remove impurities leaving the skin balanced, clarified and refreshed.
Time saving tip: Do both in your morning shower
2. Tone it up
Often forgotten, this essential step will not only remove any last traces of makeup but it is ideal to prep the skin for the subsequent moisturising step.
You’re using: You’re not!
Rescu. Recommends: A mild toner for your skin type
After the winter skin slog, applying a mildly acidic toner after cleansing will re-balance the skin’s pH factor and prevent oil and bacteria spreading. Toners have come a long way; the right toner can deliver the extra step in cleansing and provide vital ingredients for a satisfying treatment.
3. Refine and Renew
This spring, your skin is just as excited, as you are to shed those extra layers as the weather warms up.
You’re using: An occasional facial scrub
Rescu. Recommends: A gentle exfoliant daily
Have you ever noticed that miraculous difference in softening your skin you seem to only get from a facial? No self-respecting skin therapist would skip the exfoliating and refine ritual. Use a gel-based exfoliant with micro-beads daily to gently loosen dead skin cells to result in a consistently brighter complexion.
4. Replenish
Hydration, hydration, hydration. Although the frosty air may dissipate, moisturisation is still the key in restoring winter damage and creating your dewy, springtime glow.
You’re using: A basic moisturiser
Rescu. Recommends: Custom moisturiser for your skin concern.
Deliver essential nutrients to the skin with a customised moisturiser to offer protection and ensure the required levels of hydration. The moisturiser should mimic the skin’s lipid structure and help restore the skin’s protective barrier. An SPF in your day cream will also ensure prevention of future damage.
5. Protect
Increase your sun protection this spring in order to be fully covered by the time the onslaught of the Australian summer sun begins.
You’re using: A tinted moisturiser or BB Cream with SPF
Rescu. Recommends: An anti-ageing foundation with SPF
Natural sun filters such as plant oils and extracts will reduce signs of thermal stress and protect against free radicals. A long-lasting foundation with SPF made up of these sun-barriers will offer premium coverage and maximum sun protection with anti-ageing bonuses.
6. Sleep it off
A rich anti-oxidant night cream will help nourish and restore important elements of the skin’s surface while the body is resting. Add an anti-ageing serum to the equation to enhance skin firmness, luminosity and increase elasticity.
You’re using: Just a night cream, sometimes.
Rescu. Recommends: A night cream and a treatment serum every night.
Skin cell regeneration almost doubles while you sleep. By doubling the complexion-boosting ingredients you apply to your skin at night with a skin saving, concern specific serum and collagen kick-starting night cream, you’ll wake up to younger, rejuvenated skin.
7. The Difference that Makes the Difference
Want to know the difference between good skin and great skin? It’s all in the details. Celebrity glows are created with these essential extra steps: Face masks and eye creams.
You’re: Doing the basics and hoping for a miracle.
Rescu. Recommends: Eye cream daily and face mask twice weekly
Masks offer an essential and powerful treatment to deeply purify, hydrate, stimulate, brighten or simply calm the skin.
To get the best result from using a mask it is always best to cleanse, tone and exfoliate to allow deeper penetration of the active ingredients and maximise results for a super-clean spring skin.
Using an eye cream in addition to premium shut-eye will assist in smoothing out the appearance of fine lines and help reduce the appearance of puffy eyes. As there are fewer sebaceous glands under the skin in the eyes area, using an eye cream is a daily step not to skimp on.
The Spring Cleaning Series is brought to you by Dr. LeWinn’s
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