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What’s the best moisturiser for oily skin?
To answer this question, let’s first think about what we mean by moisturiser. Standard skincare routine tells us to cleanse and moisturise. But what this really amounts to is a two-step process aimed at cleaning and conditioning your skin.
Lesley Alkin, founder of Super Natural Organic Skincare, prefers not to talk about moisturising. She says the term is misleading as most so-called moisturising products only work on the outermost skin layers. Their effects are temporary and may even upset your skin’s delicate balance. A true “moisturiser” goes into the deeper skin layers and works to address the imbalance in your skin that has resulted in it becoming excessively oily or dry and flaky. But even then, the action is not moisturising so much as skin conditioning.
So rather than asking what’s the best moisturiser for oily skin, maybe it’s better to rephrase this. Instead we can ask what’s the best skin care routine for oily skin?
Rule number one: Avoid harsh cleansers, lotions and creams
So many products aimed at people with oily skin are designed to remove the excess oil. While that might seem the right approach, it’s actually precisely the opposite of what the skin needs. Stripping the skin of its natural oils upsets it big time. The human body is a master at self-healing and what happens when you go to town on removing the skin’s oil is the skin’s oil factory kicks into overdrive. You’ve started a battle you cannot win: you and those chemical cleansers trying to degrease your skin. Your body’s inbuilt balancing act going great guns pumping extra oil in to make up for the loss.
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So choose your cleanser carefully. Go for something pure and gentle that hasn’t been near a laboratory. A mild cleansing milk is ideal. All the better if it’s an organic cleansing milk like Super Natural’s Emulsifying Cleansing Milk.
Using cotton wool pads, lightly wipe your face with the cleansing milk, then rinse off with lukewarm water. Pat your skin completely dry. This is important – leaving water on the surface of your skin can interfere with the skin’s natural moisture protectors in the outer skin layers and cause your skin to dry out.
Use an oil-based ‘moisturiser’ not a water-based one
Now, this may come as a surprise, but the best thing to put on your skin is something that contains oil. You only need a tiny amount, but a face oil or an oil-rich cream, preferably organic, is going to be far better for you than a water-based moisturising cream.
How come? Because even though your skin is producing an excess of oil, by nourishing the skin’s deeper layers with a careful blend of plant-based oils, rich in fatty acids, you’re actually helping the skin to restore your skin’s natural balance.
There’s no denying it: the best moisturiser for oily skin is what nature provides us with – the millions of microscopic, water-retaining natural moisturising factors (NMFs) in our skin’s outer layers. The best thing you can do if you find yourself battling to keep facial oil under control is to give your skin all the help you can so that it can do what it was designed to do.
So if you’re looking for the best moisturiser for oily skin, why not start by reviewing your skincare routine? UK-based Super Natural Organic Skincare offers a range of carefully formulated, chemical-free products including organic cleansing milk, Vitamin E Balancing Facial Oil and oil-rich Nourishing Skin Food. International orders welcome. Find out more at http://www.glowing-skin-naturally.com/
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