Like having dry skin, having oily skin can cause many unpleasant problems like having a shiny skin due to sebum excess or blackheads and comedones apparition. In order to take care of your oily skin, here are the best purchases you can make for your skin to be normal and healthy.

• Mild cleanser :It is essential to cleanse your oily skin twice a day, on the morning and before going to bed. Prefer an hypoallergenic, mild cleanser, like micellar water or a soapless gel.

          Our best purchases : Purifying Cleansing Gel – Micellar Cleansing Water

• Tonifying Lotion : Apply a tonifying lotion after cleansing your skin will tighten up your skin pores, and will limit sebum excess. A tonifying lotion will also have a toning effect on your skin.

           Our best purchases : Brightening Toner – Toner Skincare

• Frequent exfoliating :An oily skin will have a tendency to clog up quicker. We advice you exfoliate once a week to eliminate dead cells, that causes blackheads and sallow complexion.

           Our best purchases : Exfoliating Cream

• Moisturizing : Oily skins obviously need moisturizing. These products will need to be more fluid and enriched with a sebum regulator complex. Prefer ultralight products and without oil that contains vitamins E or B5 so that your skin keeps a certain amount of humidity.

           Our best purchases : Purifying and Matifying Care –  High Absorbent Moisture Gel
With these judicious purchases, you will give back to your oily skin, all its smoothness and healthy look in no time!

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A dry or very dry skin is the consequence of sebum loss, that forms a lipidic layer on your skin. It creates a certain form of barrier that helps keep your skin moisturized. However, this barrier can be fragilized on a very dry skin and can cause a significant amount of moisturizing. If your facial skin pulls on, is sallow and rough, that it has a crocodile-skin aspect, you have to find a solution for it and fast. The solution : MOISTURIZE!

Here are a few advice to establish a beauty routine in order for your very dry skin to regain its toning and smoothness.

• Deeply cleanse your very dry skin :Privilege nourishing and fluids textures, like oils, water or cleansing milk.

           Our recommendation : Derm Acte Micellar Cleansing Water

• Moisturize your skin : After cleansing your skin, apply a rich moisturizing cream that will protect your skin from outdoor aggressions (cold, sun, pollution, etc.). To protect your skin during summer, choose a cream with a minimal FPS 30.

          Our recommendation :Derm Acte Moisturizing Cream

• Deep care :Once a week, apply a moisturizing mask on your skin that you will let on for 10 minutes. Not only will the mask moisturize your skin deeply, but will tone it as well.

           Our recommendation : Derm Acte Multivitamin Mask

• Apply appropriate make-up :In the best case scenario, avoid to put on make-up would be the idea solution. However, for a gentle make-up, choose a foundation that is adapted to your very dry skin, cream-type, preferably, to bring moisturizing to your skin, even with make-up on.

           Our recommendation : Regenerating Treatment Foundation HONEY 02

 

By following these easy tips, you can establish a beauty routine for your very dry skin so it will become radiant, smooth and healthy.

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Our team of specialists offers you targeted advice for skin with imperfections that you can start today. Give your skin the care that it deserves and it will become smooth and healthy in no time.

• Cleanse your skin right after waking up : Include a skin cleansing in your morning beauty ritual. This way, you will allow your oily skin to get rid of excess sebum that block the pores, you will eliminate all impurities and dead cells.

           Our recommendation : Gentle Soap-Free Foaming Gel pH 5

• Moisturize your skin : Are you afraid of adding more oil over blackheads or comedones? Wrong! After a cleansing that can dry out your skin, moisturizing gorges the skin with water, not oil. Make sure you choose a moisturizer that is non-comedogenic.

           Our recommendation : Purifying Fluid

• Do a mild exfoliating : You will get rid of impurities and of daily’s pollution that obstructs your pores. Make an exfoliating once a week for a reinforced effect.

           Our recommendation : Restorative Exfoliating Night Cream

• Refresh your skin : After your daily cleansing, apply a tonic lotion for sensitive skin to tighten up your pore and have a more olive effect.

           Our recommendation : Hypo-Sensible Toner

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Whether you have a sallow complexion, dehydrated skin or puffy eyes, beauty masks are skincare products that have a deep effect on your skin to help it feel fresh, smooth and soothed.

A beauty mask for each skin type

• Normal Skin: All masks can fit your skin, whenever it needs it.

• Oily and Mixed Skin: You have to get off the extra sebum on your skin. Cleansing and purifying masks are for you.

• Dry and Sensitive Skin: Your fragile and dry skin will greatly appreciate moisturizing masks.

Overview of beauty masks

Moisturizing mask :Perfect for sensitive and dry skin, moisturizing beauty masks contain powerful active ingredients (shea butter, vitamins, wheat germ oil) will mildly swell up your skin. One beauty mask each month is sufficient to rehydrate your skin.

Our recommendation: Gentle Re-Hydrating Cream-Mask

Tone-up mask : Composed of active ingredients that will smooth and dynamize your skin, tone-up masks have a smoothing effect. They will make your look youthful and healthy.

Our recommendation: Multivitamin Mask

Soothing mask : Specially made for fragile, sensitive and dry skins, they are made with essential oils and plants (chamomile, rose, etc). Very moisturizing, they diminish the sensation of pulling and discomfort and leave the skin soft and soothed.

Our recommendation: Softness Mask

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How to choose the best exfoliator

An exfoliator allows you to deeply cleanse your skin. This simple action allows you to eliminate dead cells that appears on your skin’s surface and to improve the “velvet”, oxygenation, and your skin’s functioning. Exfoliating your skin regularly allows a better penetration of active ingredients contained in skin care products applied on your face and body. It helps to activate the microcirculation.

Differents types of exfoliators

Exfoliators come in different forms : some have a mechanical action, others have a chemical action. The most popular are exfoliants with grains, composed with a cream or gel base, with an exfoliating agents, like fruit grains, silica or even sea salt. These products will peel off the dead skin cells and impurities. Exfoliants with chemicals action act due to active ingredients, like fruit acids, that dissolve dead skin cells. You apply, you let it do its effects within a few minutes and take it off with soft cloth.

An exfoliator for each skin type

For you, the perfect exfoliator is the one that best fits your skin type. If your skin tends to be oily or mixed, thick and without acne, grain exfoliants are the best for you. However, privilege a mild formula to avoid any irritation. These exfoliating products will help you take the shine off your skin. An exfoliating care once or twice a week is enough to keep your skin balanced.

Regarding sensitive or dry skin, use an exfoliator with chemical action, that gently cleanse your skin. Make you do not do an exfoliating care more than once or twice a week. Finally, for normal skin, all exfoliants, whether they are with mechanical or chemical action, will help your skin feel better. Don’t forget to hydrate your skin right after an exfoliating care.

Take a look at our selection of exfoliating products selected by our team at Académie Scientifique de Beauté.

• Exfoliating Cream
• Daily Exfoliating Cleanser Glycolic Acid 6%
• Exfoliating Shower Gel

 

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Difference between age recovery cream and anti-wrinkle cream

Even if it is impossible to stop the course of time, you can slow down the effects by using the appropriate care. You can find on the market stocks and stocks of age recovery and anti-wrinkle creams, but which one is made for you? Here are a few advice and information regarding age recovery creams and anti-wrinkle creams and how to distinguish them.

First of all, an anti-wrinkle is a care specifically created to solve the problems of wrinkles, through active ingredients, but also through its texture. These products are focusing only on wrinkles and tiny wrinkles. However, many age recovery creams and serums also contains moisturizers and UV filters.

An age recovery cream is a special care made to fight age signs on a more global scale. It fights wrinkles, lack of luminosity, density, firmness, elasticity, as well as skin loosening. Most of the time, age recovery product also has an antioxidant complex and stimulate cells’ renewal.

Take a look at our anti-wrinkle and age recovery creams offered by the Académie Scientifique de Beauté.

• Eclipsa Restructuring Cream (Age Recovery Care)
• Nourishing Cream Sève Miracle (Age Recovery Care)
• Re-Densifying and Volumizing Care (Anti-wrinkle Care)
• Marvelous Formula (Anti-wrinkle Care)

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To have a sensitive skin can be a challenge on a daily basis. If you wish to have a healthy and well-moisturized skin, here are some products to pamper your skin. What to remember : regularity and softness.

To cleanse your skin, avoid exfoliating products and privilege over-oily and moisturizing cleansing products. Don’t forget to end your cleansing with a tonic lotion for sensitive skin or a splash of thermal water. For those unlucky among you who cannot cleanse your skin with water (yes, that exists), make sure you use a micellar water or solution. Use products with no alcohol, that tends to aggress or dry out your skin.

Your day cream must be chosen according to your skin type (sensitive skin are not all necessarily dry). Take a good look at the ingredients and choose those with little ingredients or that are specifically created for sensitive skin.

Regarding masks and exfoliating, choose very mild ones that will not irritate or aggress your skin even more. One mask once a month is sufficient

Here is a selection of our team’s favorite products for sensitive skin care.

• Dermo Toner Intolerant Skin
• Dermo-Hydrating Fluid
• Hypo-Sensible Toner
• Daily Protection Cream

 

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Now that you have found THE facial cream, it is now time to take care of your body by finding a body cream or a lotion for it. Here are a few tips to find the cream, butter or lotion you need to pamper your body.

• Choose a cream, butter, or lotion according to your skin type. Here’s a simple trick : use a tissue on your skin 3 or 4 hours after your shower. If it is oily, your skin is also. Otherwise, if your skin appears to be sallow and chapped, you have dry skin. Mixed skin are in-between.

 

• To soothe and moisturize dry and very dry skin, pick a body cream or butter with a richer, thicker texture. Look for ingredients like shea butter, well-known for its lasting moisturizing features, and also vitamin E, for its antioxidant properties.

 

• For normal and mixed skin, preconize an efficient lotion that deeply moisturizes your skin, without being too oily or too thick. Your skin appears to be smoother and softer.

 

• For oily skin, despite a sebum overproduction, your skin needs minimal moisturizing. Choose an oil-free, fine textured lotion, that will allow your skin to keep its glow while being healthier and well-moisturized.

Take the time to read the ingredients before choosing your body cream to gain as much benefits as possible. Here are a few suggestions from The Académie Scientifique de Beauté’s team, for a glowing and beautiful skin.

• Nourishing Body Butter
• Moisturizing Body Lotion
• Tonifying Treatment Mist

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Whether you are sunbathing or spend a few hours gardening, it can happen that, despite your best efforts, you catch a sunburn! Do not panic! Here are a few tips on how should you repair skin after sunburn?

Sunburns are burn responsible from the cellular deaths in the skin, from skin aging, and hyperpigmentation (brown stains). The first thing to do on the first day is to avoid the sun for a few days, so your skin can recover.

After one day, your skin will be soothed and ready to be taken care of. Deep moisturizing remains the best way to repair your skin. With an aftersun restorative and remoisturizing milk or emollient cream, soothing and anti-inflammatory will calm “aggressed” cells. Look for after-sun care that contains antioxidants like vitamin E and C that limits the UVA attacks on the DNA.

Here are the favorites of our team for the after-sun care that repair and soothe your skin

• Fast Restorative Cream
• Body Restorative Milk

 

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Even if you grow in wisdom, our facial skin, however, does not see it the same way. Hormonal changes, like menopause, can cause collagen and elasticity loss on the skin. In addition, your skin becomes more sensitive to outside “aggressions” like the sun, the cold, smoking and alcohol consuming. Here are the best care you can give your skin after 50 years old, so that your skin remains smooth and glowing.

• Choose facial care products that fit your skin type (oil, mixed, or dry) Products that do not fit your skin type will do more bad than good.

• Pick a good night cream so your skin can keep its lipids during the night. Lipids help to maintain your skin’s balance, protect it and defending it against outside aggression. This cream will also improve its tonicity and elasticity.

           Our recommendation : Restorative Exfoliating Night Cream

• Make sure that you cleanse your skin everyday, whether you are wearing make-up or not. Use a mild make-up remover that moisturizes, purifies, and nourishes your skin. You can also do an exfoliation or a peeling made of fruit acids (AHA), during the evening, once or twice a week.

           Our recommendations : Make-Up Remover Skincare – Exfoliating Cream

• Once you have removed your make-up, choose an age recovery global serum or cream that nourishes and regenerates your skin, while giving it back its elasticity and smoothness. Make sure your age recovery care contains an antioxidant to prevent hyperpigmentation (brown stains), as well as hyaluronic acid that will help you moisturize and smoothens your skin.

           Our recommendation : Intense Age Recovery Serum

Show the best of yourself on a daily basis by choosing for your aging skin the proper care, that will help it become smoother, have a better glow and be healthier.

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