| When choosing a skin care product for your skin, | | | | Diet, stress, hormones, medications, and genetics |
| it is important to know your skin type. Skin type | | | | can affect oil production.The role of Skin |
| is fairly universal for all ethnic backgrounds with | | | | pigmentation in choosing skin care products has to |
| the only difference being pigmentation. | | | | do with the predisposition to develop undesirable |
| Pigmentation is what gives skin its color.When | | | | spots on the skin. The types of spots that skin |
| determining your skin type there are several | | | | care products may be able to help fade are |
| factors to consider. Factor number one: do you | | | | freckles and sun spots.Skin sensitivity has to do |
| have oily or dry skin? The second would be | | | | with the skin's ability to resist irritation. Sensitive |
| whether or not you have pigmented skin. The | | | | skin reacts easily to a stimulus with stinging, |
| third factor is skin sensitivity and the fourth is the | | | | redness, or acne. Rosacea is in the sensitive skin |
| dreaded reality of aging: wrinkles.First determine if | | | | category.The last factor involved in choosing skin |
| you have oily or dry skin. Oily skin may have a | | | | care is the presence of wrinkles. Sun exposure is |
| shiny look and also may feel oily to the touch. Dry | | | | a major factor in aging of the skin and wrinkles. |
| skin may feel uncomfortable and tight as well as | | | | Prevention is the best with the use of sunscreens |
| feel rough and have a dull color.Sebaceous (oil) | | | | in your skin care products.Oily skin versus dry |
| glands produce a secretion that helps keep | | | | skin, pigmented versus non-pigmented, sensitive |
| moisture in the skin. Excess oil production can | | | | versus resistant, and aging skin are all factors |
| result in oily skin but that is not the only factor. | | | | involved choosing skin care products. |