What on Earth Are You Doing To Your Face?

When you were growing up did your mum or grandma ever watch you as you carefully followed your 18 step basic skin care routine before commenting that, “When I was a child, I just used soap and water and I still turned out beautiful”! Yes mum of course you did but when mum was growing up, there wasn’t global warming and a thinning ozone layer, when she was growing up there wasn’t as much pollution, there was less additives, preservatives and general toxins in the food, drink and water they consumed, the average person was on less medications, had lower stress levels and spent less time in front of a computer screen, tanning globes and other radiation emitting devices. Mum didn’t step out of her climate controlled house, into her climate controlled car and drive to her climate controlled workplace, before hopping back in the climate controlled car to return to the climate controlled house. Yep, things were different, and unfortunately all these things have a negative and often drying effect on our skin. What’s a sign of dry skin? WRINKLES! Yes we risk getting wrinkles earlier than our olds…but there is hope.


Skin care products have been developed to combat the environment we now live in…so, what on Earth are you doing to your face. Well you should be doing at least a basic, 3 step skin care routine. Yep, that’s cleanse, tone, moisturise.

Cleanse. Feel the skin on your arm. Now feel the skin on your face. See how your face is softer? It’s more sensitive too. Using a cleanser is basically a safe soap for your face. Soap is too drying.


Tone. Why do you tone? Because it’s the second bottle in the gift pack? Your skin has a pH level, just like your pool or fish tank. It’s 5.5 (those old enough would remember the range called Johnson’s 5.5). Toner brings back the natural pH level of your skin after a day of living, cleansing and make-up.


Moisturise. It doesn’t add moisture to the skin but rather helps seal the natural moisture in. It’s kind of like covering your face with Cling Wrap to keep it fresh. But this way you avoid any freak suffocation incidents.


How often do you need to do this? You need to do it at night to clean your face from a day of living and licking up life. Then again in the morning. Yes, you may have just been sleeping on your pillow but as you lay there bits of skin are flaking of your head, your sebaceous glands are secreting oil, you may sweat a little. You never know what may come out your mouth. You never know what may come out of your nose. How clean does your face feel now? I thought so ;D