Spring into Your Best Self with These Easy Tips

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Skin Care Secrets

Skin care can be intimidating. According to Natalie Thompson, owner of the Peyton Company skin care line and shop, everyone has different levels of needs and maintenance. Whether you are a three-stepper or a ten-stepper, check out this guide on how to layer products for healthier skin.

Step one
Oil/Cream Cleanse
Why: Start with an oil/cream-based cleanser. This is important because it breaks up any dirt or makeup that may linger on your face, making it much easier to wash them away without leaving remnants behind that a foaming cleanser may miss.
What to buy: Balancing Creme Cleanser with Sea Buckthorn and Rooibos

Step two
Gel/Water Cleanse
Why: This step is important due to the nature of the product. The surfactant (read: bubbles) lifts the loosened makeup, dirt, excess oil and dead skin off your face and washes it away.
What to buy: Sea Foam Restorative Cleanser

Step three
Exfoliate/Masks
Why: Exfoliating is one of the most important steps in a skin care routine. The removal of excess dead skin cells is critical in the health and appearance of your skin. Proper exfoliation reduces the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, allows for the actives in your skin care to penetrate more easily, improves the look of makeup and helps reduce acne scarring or discoloration with accelerated cell turnover. You should do this step one to two times per week. Do not use a granular exfoliant, but rather a chemical exfoliation by means of acids and enzymes. It produces safer and more even results without causing micro-tears or broken capillaries.
What to buy: Pumpkin Enzyme and Glycolic Peel Mask

Step four
Toner/Floral Water
Why: Toning prepares the skin to receive treatments, removes any possible residual makeup and dirt, delivers potent actives, reduces inflammation and reduces the appearance of pore size.
What to buy: Rose or Lavender Hydrosol Toner

Step five
Serums
Why: Serums are typically lightweight delivery systems that contain vitamin C, hyaluronic acid, niacinamide, plant-based stem cells, aminos and peptides. These should be water-based (cream or gels) and not 100 percent oil.
What to buy: Hyaluronic Acid 2 Percent Facial Serum, Drench Vitamin C Serum

Step six
Treatments
Why: This step is when you should apply products such as acne spot treatments. This is an important part of your routine if you are experiencing an outbreak.
What to buy: Banish and Vanish Acne Spot Treatment

Step seven
Sheet Masks
Why: These specific one-time-use masks are great for delivering actives of your choice for more curated results and fall within the “Treatments and Serums” level of care.
What to buy: Watermelon Sheet Mask

Step eight
Eye Creams/Treatments
Why: The skin around your eye area is very delicate and it deserves to be treated as such. Potent anti-aging products like vitamin A, vitamin K, collagen peptides and vitamin C help reduce fine lines and wrinkles, and can help brighten dark circles.
What to buy: Bright Eyes Daily Restoration Gel and Wide Awake Eye Stick

Step nine
Moisturize
Why: This is the most important step in your whole routine. Keeping your skin moisturized is the best line of defense against aging, environmental damage, dermatitis, acne, fine lines and wrinkles. It gives you plump, youthful and glowing skin, and delivers actives that have many benefits.
What to buy: Beauty Minerals Dream Creme, Omni Luxe Facial Creme, Vitamin C CBD and Berries Facial Creme

Step ten
Facial Oils
Why: Always finish your regular skin care routine with non-comedogenic oils, because it seals in your skin care with a protective lipid barrier and provides compounds for potent anti-aging, anti-inflammatory and healing benefits.
What to buy: Magic Glow Facial Oil and Sea Buckthorn Overnight Magic Glow Oil

Step eleven
Sunscreen
Why: Proper sun protection is your biggest line of defense when it comes to aging. It is also a smart health protection choice in reducing your chances of developing skin cancer.
What to buy: The Peyton Company has partnered with a clean beauty brand that makes a highly effective and safe facial sunscreen product called Crunchi.

The Peyton Company, 246 Water St., Warren, 216-8700, thepeytonco.com