Skin types: how not to make mistakes in the definition

To the issue of diagnosis and selection of care programs

2024-02-22

In many manuals and textbooks on cosmetology, you can find comprehensive information on the mentioned topic. But both beginners and professionals return to it again and again in their practice. Let's try once again to consider the problems that we all have to face in everyday life.

In the diagnosis of skin type, an important role is played by the qualitative and quantitative determination of the production of sebaceous glands, taking into account the characteristic changes in sebaceous secretion along with the assessment of its appearance. Let's briefly look at the signs of each skin type and typical errors in the definition.

Depending on the state of the body's health and the choice of facial skin care program, fluctuations in its condition occur, and the more sensitive the skin reacts, the more significant and numerous the changes will be. However, even the most healthy and normal facial skin suffers with age due to a change in reactivity in the body: 90% of women at the age of 30-35 show a tendency to degrease and dehydrate it. There is a concept of dehydrated (dehydrated) skin.

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