What You Need To Know About Having Combination Skin

Understanding your skin gives you additional information on how to best look after yourself. Each skin type has different needs and reactions influencing how your skin interacts with certain environments and products. Providing the best care for your skin and its specific needs leaves you looking and feeling happy and healthy. Discover all that you need to know about having combination skin and learn how to best look after it.

What Are the Signs of Combination Skin?

Combination skin leads to both excessive oiliness and dryness. Typically, people with combination skin find that their T-zone—the area along the forehead, nose, and chin—is very oily, while their cheeks are dry. But any simultaneous patches of oiliness and dryness signify combination skin.

Combination skin is also very prone to breakouts. Dry and dehydrated skin compromises the skin’s natural barriers, which are usually formed with moisture and hydration. A weak skin barrier is more susceptible to irritants and external exposures, causing breakouts. The oily parts of the skin produce an excessive amount of sebum. The buildup of oils can then combine with bacteria and dead skin cells—even the flakes from the dry skin patches—which clogs pores with blockage and leaves you with inflammation. Use Cinq Mondes Phyto Peeling Lotion Toner or Phyto Peel Gel Mask to tackle combination skin breakouts.

What Are the Causes?

The patchy and uneven skin texture arises from inconsistent sebum production. This means certain parts of your face produce large amounts of sebum, while others struggle to produce enough. Like most skin types, combination skin is primarily genetic. However, certain products, a poor skin-care routine, and environmental factors can also cause combination skin.

Pro Tip: If your skin is changing textures because of your environment, amp up your skin defenses with protection like the Flowers Rain Tonic Anti-Pollution toner from Cinq Mondes. The natural active ingredients in the solution leave a thin protective layer over your skin and remove impurities.

What Irritants Should You Avoid?

Exposing combination skin to certain irritants can enhance the oiliness and dryness of your skin, making dry patches dryer and oily patches oilier. The key to treating combination skin is finding the perfect balance. Products made from strong chemicals, synthetic fragrances, and abrasive features tend to be excessive, irritating your skin and flaring up oiliness and flakiness.

How Do You Care for Combination Skin?

Using skin-care products from Cinq Mondes treats your skin with gentle and natural formulas that don’t tip the scales. Their healthy, active ingredients work well with both oily and dry skin types, making sure you aren’t solving one type’s issues while exacerbating the other’s.

We recommend trying Cinq Mondes Flowers Cleansing Balm. The natural oils in the balm hydrate the skin and balance oil levels, all while deep-cleaning pores. The cleansing balm targets oiliness and dryness, making it a great product for all skin types, especially combination skin.

Provide the best care for your skin by drawing upon all you need to know about having combination skin. Knowing how to cater to your skin type and using the right products guarantees happier, healthier, and cleaner skin.