soft, glowy, smooth, radiant, fair, lovely, spotless skin - name it - but finding a
cream that would give that dream skin you've always desired can be not so easy,
after spending loads of cash on products with below expectation results, you
resign to fate that your were probably not destined to have gorgeous looking .
Finally based on a friend's or a helpful cosmetic store assistant's recommendation,
you hit gold-mine with a skin care product which worked for your skin even
beyond your expectation with a sigh of relief that the search for a lovely skin is
over, and then suddenly few years down the line your once perfect skin products
without apology stopped working leaving you with unanswered questions of
"What went wrong"? "Was the quality of the product compromised by the
producer"? "Why is it no longer effective as before"?
Various factors could be responsible for why your once effective cream, lotion,
acne treatment product, soap, body wash, moisturizer, gel, serum, toner etc are
no longer effective as expected.
Unhealthy life-style: Aside your skin-care products and routine, your skin
outlook is also affected by life-style and daily habits like smoking, alcoholism,
unhealthy diets, stress, dehydration and exposing skin to UV rays without a
good sunscreen protection these will give you a very bad skin no matter how
expensive your skin-care products could be. It is also very necessary to shield
skin from sun and moreso when using skin toning and whitening products with
sun-sensitivity content like Retinoid, Clobetasol propionate etc
Climatic and seasonal change:Climatic change as result of relocation and
seasonal changes can change your skin type for instance a humid temperature
tends to retain more oil and moisture on the skin and is likely to make oily skin
excessively greasy leading to acne breakouts and too much oil to handle, hence
a need to change skin care products to light weight absorbable non-oil lotion or
oil-control skin care approach should be used at this particular time.
For instance my skin responds and relate better with the northern dry climate
than the southern humid climate, this is because I have very oily skin, the dry
atmosphere helps to control my acne even without my using any acne product by
drying out excess oil and acne on my face. A dry skin will become excessively
dry in the harsh drying harmattan season requiring more of moisturizer what to do?
Don't discard the lotion just yet, instead add natural oil like coconut oil or olive
oil this way the oil will keep your dry skin soft and protected in the harmattan
season while your skin enjoy the benefits your favourite lotion has to offer.
Fake and expired products: If all of a sudden your once effective lotion
experience power-failure, check the expiry date, it must have passed its
shelf life or its probably made-in-Aba (not original). When next you are
buying check the expiry date and make sure to buy from a trusted supplier.
Fake and expired products causes more harm than good to your skin.
Aging:As one gets older especially after crossing over to the late 30s
your skin type changes at this stage, this is because there is a gradual
decrease of the estrogen hormone that is responsible for the production
of collagen and sebum (oil) two key ingredients necessary to maintain a
youthful skin.
As from 30 years upward your skin will not respond to your usual beauty
routine because your skin tends to dry needing more of moisture restoration
cell-renewal, collagen replacement, wrinkle-control, and age-defying
products. You would benefit more from your usual skin-care by investing in
more than one age-defying products like Tretinion, Glycolic acid chemical
peel, moisturizers and adding them to your beauty routine -this is necessary
if your product is not given you the desired result due to age factor.
Dead skin cell: Your skin-care products will not work if it is not
penetrating deeply into the skin, dry dead skin cells can create a sort
of barrier between your skin and product, except this barrier is removed
through exfoliation which is a removal of the dead skin cells off the skin,
your cream can not find a way to get through and work on your skin.
It is recommended you have a weekly complete body and facial scrub.
Prolong use: Even our skin gets bored with monotonous using of one
brand of product for long and need you to liven up or upgrade your products
just like your anti-biotic stop working after taking for some time requiring
a higher dosage.When this happens you can go on a short-product break by
switching to a higher brand of product or to make things more simpler
enhance the efficacy of your old product with a serum, gel, natural oil,
pure honey, Vitamin E. For instance you could try adding pure honey,
serum, vitamin E oil to activate your once plain lotion.
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