In order to keep a complete skincare routine routine, something needed for a healthy and radiant skin and to protect yourself from the daily damages caused by premature aging and skin cancer. In the post below, we will show all the steps that must be followed, with tips of ADCOS cosmetics that you can use daily.
First tip: cleaning your skin
This is the first step. Skin hygiene is important to remove remaining substances from make-up, oil, dead cells, pollution and dirt that accumulate every day. To achieve an effective result, it is necessary to clean your skin twice a day. There is no need to do this any more times than that.
Excessive cleaning causes the rebound effect, which when a person cleans their skins too many times. The consequence is that oil production is increased in order to protect the region. It is necessary to choose a facial soap for the ideal skin type.
It will have ideal substances that will work according to your needs, for example, for an oily skin, it needs to have substances that control sebum production. Suggestively, in order to clean the skin in your skincare routine, the ideal thing to use is a neutral cleansing gel.
The product cleans effectively, removing excessive amounts of oil, pollution residues and makeup of all kinds. It is totally free of oil and consists of Aloe Vera, promoting refreshing actions, which contribute to the replacement of minerals and amino acids in the skin.
Green tea extract and solubilizing surfactant. Its antioxidant action is capable of fighting free radicals and helps increasing the skin’s natural defense system.
Micellar water is an ally during this step
Micellar Water is a sanitizing water made of micelles, essential molecules for cleaning and eliminating impurities, oil particles, make-up removers and toning the skin.
ADCOS Micellar Water offers 9 benefits: removing make-up, cleansing, toning, purifying, rebalancing, moisturizing, regenerating, soothing and protecting.
Its composition in the non-oily version is reinforced by probiotics that protect and stimulate the skin’s defenses, working alongside the recovery of the skin immune protection.
It deeply cleanses without changing in the skin’s pH, does not contain alcohol, colorants and parabens in its composition.
Biphasic Make-up Remover
The Biphasic Make-Up Remover is able remove water resistant makeup without measuring efforts. It contains a moisturizing antioxidant smooth formula and does not cause irritation to the eyes.
It’s indicated for any kind of skin, doesn’t contain any parabens, is oil-free and ophthalmologically tested, and prevents aging.
Step two: toning your skin
There are people who skip this step, but it isn’t any less important than the previous and the next steps.
This tonic balances the pH of the skin and helps cleansing, in addition to helping to remove the dirt in the skin – water and soap do not remove it –, as well as makeup sunscreen residues.
ADCOS has facial tonics that meet your expectations. The illuminating tonic with vitamin C illuminates and revitalizes the skin, stimulates for collagen and prevents aging and flaccid skin.
The tensor tonic is suitable for a mature skin and it promotes a visible lifting effect immediately, activating the firmness of the skin texture.
The drying tonic was made for dry acne-prone skin due to its drying action, that contributes to the control of oil release.
For a sensitive skin, there is a soothing tonic that minimizes sensitivity. For an oily skin the balancing tonic causes an immediate matte effect and has an astringent power.
Step 3: hydrating is a must for every kind of skin
For people who still have doubts, it’s still necessary to moisturize an oily skin. It is common to be confused about excessive hydration or a damp skin.
Excess sebum production happens to make up for the lack of hydration, through this imbalance between missing water and oil in excess.
Hydrating an oily skin while using the appropriate products, improves its texture and creates a tolerance for new substances, such as acids.
In addition, if the skin is dehydrated, it becomes more vulnerable to external aggressions, such as pollution, cold and heat, increasing sebum production.
Hydration promotes the feeling of a dry touch, providing other options for an oily skin, as well as light textures and non-oily ones with serum and products with fluids.
Another valid characteristic is that, in skin products, the matte effect is concentrated. In addition, an oil-free composition has control over oiliness while disguising the pores.
The Aqua Sérum repeats this same process, bringing an innovation to the cosmetic market. It is improved by its daily hydration power.
A care routine for an oily skin suits this moisturizer well. Deep hydration restores the skin’s natural barriers, helping to reduce wrinkles, getting rid of excessive oil and not clogging the pores.
The main active ingredient is the hyaluronic acid, which provides a powerful hydration from the inside out. This cosmetic is composed of ten amino acids and nine minerals, including antioxidant and anti-pollution substances.
Vitamin C 20 is indicated for any type of skin, including an oily skin. It has a pure vitamin C percentage of approximately 20%, promoting revitalization. The elasticity and firmness is improved together with its matte effect and dry touch.
Vitamin C 20 illuminates, protects and makes a uniform DNA, distributing collagen, becoming part of other anti-aging and whitening products.
This vitamin C for the face is an oil-free gel-cream, without any fragrance and preservatives, suitable for an oily skin and for a daily use associated with sunscreen.
Dry skin
Dry skin obviously needs a more creamy and concentrated texture, with components that are able to hydrate and nourish.
Products with allantoin, shea butter, Vaseline or natural oils offer greater and better elasticity to the skin.
ADCOS recommendations for those with dry skin are: Golden Care Nourishing and Facial Moisturizing Cream, which act as a replacement for phytohormones on the skin, being ideal for a dry and mature skin.
The Intensive Serum offers hydration and firmness, promoting irradiance and immediate luminosity alongside with Ectoin and Hyaluronic Acid.
Mixed skin
A mixed skin happens when two types of skin are part of different regions, for example, an oily skin in the face area and a dry skin on the cheeks.
A formula that doesn’t contain mineral oils is the best option for this type of skin, preventing dryness and not increasing the oil production by the sebaceous glands.
The Hydrating Serum is the ideal option for a mixed skin, due to being totally oil-free and promoting intensive, deep, gradual and prolonged hydration.
Normal skin
A normal skin naturally moisturizes due to the production of sebum. The Hydrating Mist usually offers more practicality than a thermal water.
Its benefit is a powerful, immediate and lasting moisturizing effect for 24 hours, for normal skins and all other skin types.
Sensitive skin
Sensitive skin is more prone to irritation, redness, itching and to showing some kind of reaction to cosmetic products. This classification is in regarding of intolerant and reactive skins in that acts in an unpredictable way in relation to their reactions.
This type of skin can suffer from burning, tugging and peeling. The best solution for this skin is to use hypoallergenic products, without any fragrance.
The most recommended one is a product with less active ingredients and with soothing and decongestant properties.
The Ultra Softening Emulsion is the ideal product, that softens and reassures a sensitive or temporarily sensitized skin, soothing irritations and bringing back its hydration without a trace of greasiness.
Acne-prone skin
Acne-prone skin develops blackheads and pimples due to increased secretion through the sebaceous glands, clogging the pores.
This condition may be intense, which tends to worsen due to other factors, such as stress and excessive exposure to the sun.
There is a need to avoid using products with oil or the ones that stimulate the production of tallow. The texture that best suits acne-prone skin is composed of a gel or a serum.
It is important to say that the skin hydration process is mandatory for this type of skin, after the cleaning process.
AquaPro Bio provides a range of benefits, both regenerating and strengthening the skin’s biological barrier, causing the skin to be more firm, luminous and soft.
It has a probiotic composition, which can be used at any time of the day.
Step 4: photo-protection
A daily photo protection has the ability to prevent the development of problems caused by unprotected exposure of the skin, such as skin cancer, premature aging, sunburn, spots and blemishes.
According to the Brazilian Society of Dermatology, when applying sunscreen daily at home and reinforcing the application every hour, a lot of sweating or prolonged sun exposure can happen.
You must apply approximately the equivalent to a shallow teaspoon in the face, ears and neck, evenly, in a way that can protect all areas, leaving no unprotected region.
The Sunscreen Mousse UV 50 has been recommended especially for those who want to reduce and disguise imperfections, pores and wrinkles on the skin.
Its blur effect keeps the skin smooth, uniform, soft and has an effective control of oil production for approximately 10 hours.
The damage caused is protected by pollution, visible light and an anti-gliding action, thus reducing the destruction of collagen.
The product is 100% mineral, being perfect for oily skins, who need to reach a level of reinforcement in the texture of the skin.
The product also has the advantage of concealing imperfections immediately and innovative mousse texture is a surprise, while also being ultralight.
Sunscreens are developed with 100% minerals, ensuring high protection against immediate and accumulative effects caused by the exposure to the sun.
The sunscreen compact powder UV 50 toning offers a dry texture, matte effect and natural coverage. Its formula is ideal for a sensitive skin.
Vitamin E acts as both an anti-aging and antioxidant. This sunscreen is resistant to water and practical, portable and perfect for applying more times during the day.
The sunscreen stick UV 80 fights UVB, UVA, long UVA, infrared and visible light radiation, being recommended for any kind of skin.
It has a double resistance to water and offers traditional textures, providing five colors that are adapted to different skin tones, including extremely sensitive sunburn.
It soothes stains, providing a matte effect with a dry touch.
Hyaluronic acid is effective in hydrating, filling in wrinkles and, in addition to vitamin C, they promote antioxidant, anti-aging and anti-glycant actions, reducing the destruction of skin collagen.
The sunscreen fluid sunscreen UV 40 proves this matte effect by protecting the skin from visible light and providing a high cover-up of imperfections.
They fight against the effects that cause harmful protections from UVA and UVB rays and are available in six different shades.