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The skin on our faces has different needs to the skin on our hands. It needs something more targeted to our specific skin type too. Hand creams tend to cater for all hands (although some are more geared towards very dry skin).

Moisturisers developed for use on the face tend to be more specific. For example, we might need a different facial moisturiser if our skin was oily to if our skin was very dry.

Maskne: Is Your Covid Mask Making You Break Out?

Could your face mask be causing your acne breakouts to feel worse? Could it be causing you to experience spots and breakouts when you never have before?

Here, we investigate the impact of wearing a mask on your skin. Could it be causing spots? Or are we all just adapting to something new?

Are Vitamin C Supplements Good for Your Skin?

Take one look at the vitamin supplement shelves in your local pharmacy, supermarket or online supplement supplier, and what do you see? You’ll prob...

Using a Clay Face Mask for Acne Prone Skin

Clay masks are said to be good for purifying the skin, drawing out toxins and having an anti-inflammatory effect on stressed out skin. But are they any good for treating acne prone skin? Let’s take a look...

What Does Hyaluronic Acid Do and What Are the Skin Benefits?

Hyaluronic acid is a naturally occurring substance in the human body and is found most abundantly in the eyes, joints and skin. It’s a clear, thick liquid like substance and is used by the body to help retain water levels in the eyes, joints and skin to help keep them well hydrated and lubricated.

Does Age Matter? How Aging May Change our Approach to Skincare

As we slowly move from our baby soft skin to the onset of fine lines, wrinkles, sagging and thinning skin, we have different skin needs. So that means that our skin care products and regime may well need to change too.

How do I get rid of my shaving rash?

Developing a shaving rash is annoying, uncomfortable and for many of us, embarrassing. But other than using other, often trickier, more expensive methods of hair removal such as waxing, threading or laser hair removal - most of which involve a trip to the salon - or leaving our hair to go wild, what can we go about a shaving rash?

To Salon or Not to Salon? What Beauty Treatments Should We Try at Home?

Should we be having facials and eyebrow waxes? Can we? Should we support our salons or hold off a bit and stick with the DIY skin treatments and hair cuts?

Skincare for Combination Skin

You know that feeling, when you simply can’t make up your mind? When you can’t decide if you want the pasta dish or the chicken at your favourite r...

How to Stop Picking Spots

But what about picking at spots? If you’re picking at your skin all the time to help ‘flatten out’ or smooth your skin, freeing it from bumps and spots, then you may also have dermatillomania. Most of us do this from time to time, but could picking our spots and our skin all the time be damaging, and make our skin worse? What about occasionally squeezing spots? Is that ok?

How to Exfoliate Your Face for Glowing Skin

Whatever your skin type, whatever your routine, one thing is for certain, gently exfoliating regularly will be (mostly) beneficial.

But what does exfoliating do? How do we do it? What should we be using to exfoliate with? And importantly, how often should we exfoliate?

Here’s our ultimate guide to exfoliating.

How to get glowing, radiant skin

When we look at the images of models and actors in glossy magazines, on Instagram and starring in fancy adverts and Hollywood films we can easily get swept along in believing that their perfect, glowing skin is real.

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