Dehydrated skin looks and feels like dry skin all over your face, but there’s a big difference: dehydrated skin is a skin condition that lacks water, whereas dry skin is a skin type that lacks oil.

Dry skin is typically tight and dry, with little oil. This is the skin type you are born with, and it is mostly determined by the density of oil-producing glands in your skin. The dryness may worsen depending on the temperature, season, or exercise, but without skin care products, the painful dry, tight sensation will linger.

Dehydrated skin might appear and feel similar, but there is a significant difference: dehydrated skin comes and goes. If your skin feels dry below an oily layer on top, you most likely have dehydrated skin.

What causes dehydrated skin?

Harsh or skin-sensitizing substances can damage the skin’s barrier or even upset the skin’s microbiota and contribute to dehydrated skin. Utilizing incorrect products for your skin can as well cause an imbalance in your skin barrier. Simply: dehydration is your skin’s way of telling you that it doesn’t like anything you’re doing to it.

Denatured alcohol, menthol, peppermint, and perfumes (natural or synthetic) might irritate the skin and cause it to dry up. It will also increase oil production at the pore’s base, making skin oilier and more prone to clogging. The same thing might happen if you use abrasive cleaners or cleaning brushes. All of them harm the skin’s surface.

How to treat dehydrated skin!

Assess your skincare routine and stop using harsh, sensitizing products. That means you must:

  • Use gentle, effective cleansers that don’t leave skin feeling tight, dry, or greasy.
  • Do not use harsh scrubs and/or rough cleansing brushes.
  • When applying booster serums (concentrated), apply them 2 or 3 times a week or every other day and evaluate how your skin feels.
  • Use antioxidant-rich serums, booster serums and moisturizers with hydration-replenishing compounds like ceramides and other skin-restoring ingredients.

To treat dry skin, NOURISHING REGENERATIVE CREAM helps deep-hydrate your skin. Topping your skincare up, HYALURONIC ACID BOOSTER SERUM helps adds extra hydration to your skin.