Skin type: Sensitive skin
Skin type: Sensitive skin
Your skin type is: Sensitive skin
Symptoms of sensitive skin mainly include redness, flaking, itching, and a sense of burning or tightness. Likewise, sensitive skin can quickly develop rashes with pustules, papules or swelling. Sensitive skin tends to react to external stimuli and environmental influences very quickly and often rather strongly. These include, for example, cold, heat, irritating ingredients in cosmetics, sunlight or environmental pollution. Redness and a burning sensation occur after a hot bath, for example, or after using facial cleansers that are too aggressive. People with sensitive skin tend to have a fair complexion that is prone to sunburn.
Characteristics of sensitive skin
- fine scales, redness, rash, swelling
- flaking and roughness
- feelings of tightness, burning, itching and tingling
These indications can appear anywhere on the face. There are some similarities to other skin conditions, particularly to indications of dehydration.
Normal skin
The term "normal" is generally used for a balanced complexion. The T-zone (forehead, nose and chin) can be slightly oily, but the sebum and moisture levels are balanced and the skin is neither too oily nor too dry.
Oily skin
Oily skin tends to produce more sebum and sweat, which makes it shiny and increases pore size. It often leads to unwanted blackheads, which unfortunately can also develop into acne.
Dry skin
Dry skin is also referred to as a low-lipid, dry condition or sebostasis. It usually is [missing] It also belongs to the category of problem skin, sensitive or delicate skin. Your skin doesn’t produce enough sebum.
Combination skin
It is typical for combination skin to show symptoms of dry skin and those of oily skin in different areas. In most cases, the forehead, nose and chin (called the T-zone) are shiny, oily and possibly even blemished, while the cheeks are dry, dull and flaky.
Mature skin
Everyone gets mature skin in the course of their lives. Some sooner, others later. Many different factors determine when your skin will start to show the first signs of ageing.
Blemished skin
Blemished skin is prone to blackheads, so-called comedones, that sometimes form inflamed, small reddish pustules. Blemished skin most often occurs in adolescents starting in puberty, but it can also recur later in life.