DO YOU REALLY HAVE OILY SKIN?
A lot of cosmetic patients I see fill in their intake form and state that they have oily skin. But then they disclose they don’t apply moisturiser or oil to their face, day or night. It takes a while for me to convince them to try, because they’re often certain that using moisturiser on their already oily skin will make it even worse, but once they do, only a few find they have truly ‘oily’ skin.
The reason for this is that we wash our faces, cleanse them, apply toner, strip our skin of its natural oil. If we then leave it at that, our skin overcompensates by producing too much oil. However, if we keep our skin moisturised, both superficially with day cream and on a deeper level with night oils, our skin will often slow down with its production of oils.
If you think this might be you, but you’re apprehensive to try, start with a night cream or oil and work your way up to a day moisturiser.