How does your skin look, feel, and behave? Understanding your skin type is incredibly important in determining the best ways to treat it.

Just about everything you do influences your skin. Internal as well as external elements impact the way your skin looks and feels. To effectively evaluate your skin and decide on the correct skin-care routine, consider your diet, health habits, genetics and ageing, climate and, most importantly, your current skin-care routine. Over or under moisturizing and exfoliating, using irritating or drying products, and using the wrong products for your skin type can all result in sluggish and unhealthy skin.

Understand and Treat Your Skin

Assess your skin when you are not wearing makeup, preferably a few hours after it’s been washed.

  1) Oily Skin: Are there areas on your face that are noticeably shiny, especially the nose, cheeks, forehead, and chin? Blot your face with a tissue, and then again a few hours later. If there is evidence of oil on it, then you have a relative amount of oily skin (or possibly a moisturizer that is too emollient for you!).
Our recommendation:  Lavender or Lavender Tea Tree Soap, any SumiCo mask or scrub, Lavender Toner, Day Drops.

  2) Dry Skin: Do any areas of your face appear overly dry or matte? Press a piece of tape on these areas. If you see small flakes, then you are probably dealing with dry or under exfoliated skin.
Our recommendation:  Milk soap, Honey Reishi Scrub and Mask, Lavender Toner, Day Drops or Fountain for older skin. Use Dew Drops for nighttime moisturizing.

  3) Combination Skin: If some areas of your face are both dry and oily then you have what’s commonly known as combination skin. This condition can often be a result of using skin-care products that are both too emollient for your skin type and too drying.
Our recommendation:  Lavender Tea Tree Soap, Honey Reishi Mask or 3 in 1 Mask. Lavender or Acne Toner, Day Drops or Acne Oil.

  4) Acne and Blemishes: Do some areas of your skin tend to break out with small to medium size blemishes, particularly around the time of your menstrual cycle? No surprise, you have mild to moderate acne.
Our recommendation: Lavender or Lavender Tea Tree Soap, 3 in 1 Mask, Acne Toner, Acne Oil.

  5) Serious Acne: Do some areas of your skin have more significant, consistent breakouts that are sometimes deep and painful and/or that lead to scarring? If you’ve answered yes to this you have more serious acne.
Our recommendation:  Lavender Tea Tree or Neem Soap, customized SumiCo steaming oils, 3 in 1 Mask. Acne Toner, Acne Oil.

  6) Blackheads: Do areas of your skin, particularly around your nose, chin, cheeks, or forehead have noticeable blackheads?
Our recommendation:  Lavender Tea Tree Soap, customized SumiCo steaming oils, Honey Reishi Mask and Scrub or 3 in 1 Mask. Acne Toner, Acne Oil.

  7) Sun Damage: Sun damage begins the moment your skin sees daylight, but the results of that damage won’t show up until later in your 30s, 40s, and 50s. Most of us weren’t even thinking about sun damage when we were younger. That means everyone needs skin-care products with ingredients that fight or prevent sun damage.
Our recommendation:  Milk Soap, Honey Reishi Mask and Scrub, Lavender Toner, Fountain. Use Dew Drops for nighttime moisturizing.

  8) Rosacea Do you have areas of redness over the nose and cheek area accompanied by red bumps that look like blemishes but aren’t really pimples? Are there noticeable surfaced capillaries over these sections as well as areas of extreme sensitivity? Do you flush easily? There is a strong possibility you have rosacea, which is a medical condition.
Our recommendation:  See a dermatoligist to correctly diagnose. Use Lavender Tea Tree or Neem Soap, Honey Reishi Mask, Lavender Toner, Eczema Oil. Use Comfort Balm for affected body areas as well.

  9) Psoriasis: Do you have patches of raised, red, dry, white scaly, crusted skin around your hairline, nose, eyes, or cheeks? This may be a skin disorder called psoriasis.
Our recommendation:  See a dermatoligist to correctly diagnose. Use Lavender Tea Tree or Neem Soap, Honey Reishi Mask, Lavender Toner, Eczema Oil. Use Comfort Balm for affected body areas as well.

  10) Dark UnderEye Circles: Do you have consistently dark circles under your eyes, with increasing evidence of fine wrinkles? The cause could be sun damage, veins and capillaries that show through skin or irritation. They can also be a result of dry skin making the area look dull and tired.
Our recommendation:  Lavender Tea Tree or Neem Soap, Honey Reishi Mask, Lavender Toner, Baggage.

Everyone has sensitive skin to one degree or another. SumiCo products are created for sensitive skin and are gentle, nondrying, and nonirritating. For more information about what can trigger irritation, see Skin Care News.