The types of Skin is determined by genetic factors. However, the individual skin condition varies depending on the various internal and external factors that affect the skin. Find out here which features identify a specific skin type. Use these criteria to quickly determine your individual skin type.
Main Types of Skin:
Normal Skin
Who belongs to the skin type normal skin, may be happy.
The complexion of this type is what everyone probably wants: fine-pored, even, healthy-looking. The care is correspondingly uncomplicated.
How do I Recognize Normal Skin?
Normal skin is characterized by a smooth structure with fine pores, a rosy complexion and a dull skin that is neither greasy nor dry. In addition, it reacts to environmental influences rather insensitive.
Since most people produce sebum either too much (oily skin) or too weak (dry skin), normal skin is relatively rare and usually found only in younger people. But that too can change the course of life. Because aging skin tends to dryness again.
Skin Care and Cleansing for Normal Skin
Even if the normal skin is not very demanding, it should be properly cleaned and cared for. For if you neglect them or too much, the skin type can change: External factors such as stress, fatigue, environmental influences or too aggressive cleaning products can also dry out normal skin and impair the skin barrier. The skin then becomes dry and loses its healthy appearance.
Therefore, it is also important for normal skin to use a daily moisturizer and mild cleansing products that constantly provide the skin with sufficient moisture. Then the skin remains smooth and supple.
In the trade special product series for normal skin are available, which one can orient oneself. Inform yourself of the right facial cleansing, facial care, and body care.
Dry Skin
Dry skin tightens, feels rough, itches and flakes frequently, and can even become chapped.
How do I Recognize Dry Skin?
Dry skin is prone to redness and scaling and has rough spots. Common causes include decreased sebum production and impaired function of the natural skin barrier. The moisture can escape to the outside, and pollutants can penetrate more easily. Small, dryness-related lines and cracks appear that make the skin rough, dull and uneven. People with this types of skin are generally quicker at forming wrinkles.
There are Two Types of Skin in Dry Skin:
- The Low-Fat Dry Skin
- The Dehydrated Dry Skin.
Low Fat Dry Skin:
Dry, low-fat skin is caused by reduced lipid synthesis or insufficient sebum production.
Dehydrated Dry Skin:
The dry dehydrated skin has too low a water binding capacity.
In both cases, the skin is flaky and dull. It quickly tends to redness, itching, and feelings of tension and to the formation of wrinkles.
A professional skin analysis can determine the moisture or fat content and clarify whether you belong to the skin type dry low-fat or dry dehydrated skin.
What Causes are behind Dry Skin?
During puberty, during pregnancy and menopause, hormonal changes take place in the body, which can be responsible for dry skin.
Vitamin deficiency can also lead to dry skin. With a healthy, well-balanced diet, you can also look good on the inside. Particularly important are vitamin A (for example in carrots, spinach, cheese, and eggs) and B (for example in dairy products, broccoli, asparagus, nuts, whole grains and poultry). Omega-3 fatty acids (for example in salmon, rapeseed oil or avocados) are also effective beautifiers.
External factors such as cold temperatures or dry heating air damage our skin. Even too frequent sunbathing dries out the skin. Other external factors such as pollution, dust, hectic everyday life, tiredness and stress can make the skin dry. The resulting impairment of the skin barrier can make the skin cracked and rough.
Also, the skin may change due to the increasing age and become drier because the skin barrier does not regulate the moisture balance of the skin optimally. The skin also produces less sebum with age, so it contains less fat and dries faster. Learn more about our skin.
Frequent washing/showering and especially at high temperatures attacks the natural acid mantle of the skin, causing the skin to lose fat and moisture and become dry and rough. Even the use of unsuitable cleaning and care products can dry out the skin.
How to Care and Clean Your Dry Skin?
Skin dryness requires special care. Under "Tips on dry skin" we have put together information and practical tips for the care of dry skin.
Oily Skin
Oily, shiny skin - usually associated with blemishes - is often very uncomfortable for those affected.
How do I Recognize Oily Skin?
Oily skin is characterized by a robust, shiny, oily complexion with large, visible pores. In addition, this skin type tends to blemished skin. Particularly affected are the following areas of the skin: scalp, forehead, the remaining face, chest or back.
What are the Causes of Oily Skin?
The cause of oily skin is an overproduction of the sebaceous gland, which produces too much body fat, called sebum or sebum. The purpose of the secreted fat is to keep the skin supple and protect it from environmental influences. However, if sebum production exceeds the usual one to two grams per day, the skin is too greasy. The overproduction, in turn, has different causes.
In addition to hereditary predisposition, various clinical pictures can cause a greasy skin as a symptom: adrenal cortex disorder, ovarian disease, Parkinson's disease, dysregulation in the autonomic nervous system. In addition, some medications, such as sedatives or hormone preparations, affect sebum production.
The increased production of hormones (testosterone, androgens) during puberty is the most common cause of oily skin and often brings impure skin with pimples and blackheads or acne with it. But other hormone changes can cause oily skin in the course of life. For example, during pregnancy and after childbirth (lactation), after discontinuing hormonal contraceptives such as the anti-Babypille as well as just before menstruation.
Also, our diet and various behaviors can negatively impact fat production and thus increase oily skin: too much stress, malnutrition, and excessive alcohol consumption.
How to Care and Cleaning of Oily Skin?
For both women and men, proper facial cleansing is crucial. It is important not to cleanse the face too often, as this can lead to the natural defenses of the skin being attacked. Our experts recommend cleansing and looking after the face twice a day (morning and evening) with suitable, mild products. Here, for example, a mild tonic is suitable. Avoid spicy, alcoholic facial tonic and alkaline soaps. These attack the acid mantle.
In addition, apply a mattifying scrub 2-3 times a week, which additionally frees the skin from dander, cleanses the pores and thus acts against pimples and blackheads.
Your daily face care should be as good as your skin type. Lightweight, non-greasy creams that are as oil-free as possible, such as a moisturizer for impure skin, are ideal.
Oily skin tends to cause blemishes. Under "Tips for bad skin", we have put together information and practical tips for the care of oily, prone to impurities skin.
Combination Skin
Combination skin is, as the name implies, a skin type that combines the properties of different skin types. Most people with combination skin have both body parts with normal or dry skin and areas with oily skin.
How do I Recognize Combination Skin?
Combination skin is characterized by oily, oily skin as well as normal or dry. The shiny parts are usually on the face, on the chest, and on the back. In the face itself, there are again drier and greasy spots. The so-called T-zone (forehead, nose, and chin) is greasier than the cheeks.
What Causes are behind Combination Skin?
The cause of a combination skin is an overproduction of the sebaceous glands in which too much body fat, also called sebum or sebum, is produced. Sites where more fat producing sebaceous glands sit shine faster than those with few glands.
The secreted fat actually has the task of protecting the skin from environmental influences. An overproduction is usually genetic, but can also develop a wrong care with too many irritating cosmetics. The irritated skin tries to defend itself against the influences and produces more protective fat. More information about the causes of sebum overproduction can be found in the oily skin.
Sensitive Skin
Sensitive or even sensitive skin is actually not a clearly defined skin type. However, since many people suffer from hypersensitive skin, there is this category of cleaning and care products.
How do I Recognize Sensitive Skin?
Sensitive skin reacts quickly with irritations, redness, and tension. External influences such as sunbeams, cosmetic products, cold or environmental pollution are not well tolerated and produce a reddened, sometimes dry or spotty skin with pimples.
What Causes are behind Sensitive Skin?
The causes of sensitive skin are difficult to clarify. Mostly a hereditary predisposition or an allergy is behind it. Most people who suffer from the sensitive skin are also affected by the skin-type dry skin. But even with age, the skin becomes drier and therefore more sensitive. Rarely, skin diseases such as psoriasis or rosacea are behind it.
However, it is clear that different triggers cause reactions in sensitive skin:
Cosmetics or perfumes with fragrances and preservatives
Sunbathing
Cold
Stress, mental factors
Pollution such as car exhaust or dust
So try to keep triggering factors as low as possible.
Care of Sensitive Skin
When treating sensitive skin, the goal should always be to soothe the skin and strengthen the natural skin barrier. It can help mild and perfume-free products that have been developed specifically for sensitive skin, such as the Neutrogena Hydro Boost care line.
Since sensitive skin types usually also tend to dry skin, products are often suitable for dry skin. Make sure that the care products contain few ingredients/fragrances and especially no alcohol, moisturize, are rather light in texture.
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