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The skin expert's 4 tips for you with dry and sensitive skin

Now in autumn, when the air gets drier and it gets colder, many people with dry and sensitive skin start to "feel" their skin again. During the summer, the skin feels soft and nice, but with the arrival of autumn, the skin becomes drier and some people experience that the skin tightens and becomes more sensitive. Skin sensitivity can have complex causes such as a thinner epidermis but also a change in the skin's sensitivity receptors. Several substances in skin care products can trigger a sensitivity, so the skin care you choose to use and how you use it can be an important component in avoiding reactions and achieving calm, soft and hydrated skin.

By treating dry and sensitive skin correctly, you can strengthen the skin's important barrier function that holds moisture in the skin, reduce water loss (TEWL) and get the important skin flora, i.e. the microbiome, to thrive and come into balance. In combination, this will result in skin that is stronger, smoother and healthier. Here are Skinome's founder, Dr. Johanna Gillbros, 4 best tips on how best to treat dry and sensitive skin.

1. Commit to a minimalist routine and avoid topics that can irritate

To take care of dry and sensitive skin, you should avoid applying many different skin care products with a variety of ingredients to your skin. Many people with sensitive skin can react to common skin care ingredients such as perfumes and preservatives. The more skin care products you use, the more of these less good ingredients you apply to your skin. Avoid substances such as alcohol, glycols, essential oils, sometimes even natural oils, as well as preservatives such as, for example, phenoxyethanol, ethylhexylglycerin, benzoic acid and potassium sorbate.

Maybe you need to review your skincare routine – and shorten it? Healthy skin doesn’t need tons of different creams, serums and cleansers. On the contrary, using too many skincare products can cause skin sensitivity and long skincare routines can simply have the opposite effect on your skin – they can irritate instead of nourish.

So go through your skincare routine and think about which products you really need and which ingredients you should avoid in your skincare products.

The Skinome routine is simple and for those of you with dry and sensitive skin, we recommend the following:

Apply your choice of moisturizer ( Intense Emulsion , Derma Emulsion , Rich Emulsion or Light Emulsion ) in the morning.
Feel free to cleanse your face, but only in the evening, with one of our cleansers (Mineral Cleanser or Five Point Cleanser ).
Then you can combine and mix your moisturizer with our Probiotic Concentrate , which is specifically developed to nourish and protect dry and sensitive skin, either in the morning or evening or both.

2. Cleanse your skin – but only in the evening!

The basic idea behind cleansing the skin is that it has accumulated particles from the city air, dirt, grease and other unhealthy substances, which need to be removed from the skin. This is important, but today many people over-cleanse their skin and scientific studies show that there is a link between too much cleansing and some of the most widespread skin problems such as dry and sensitive skin or even rosacea.

During the night, the skin forms unique moisture-binding substances that are part of the skin barrier and contribute to soft and healthy skin. Surfactants that you find in many cleansing products tend to negatively affect the skin barrier because they can also dissolve the skin's own oils that are formed in the skin. Therefore, an important piece of advice to avoid dry and sensitive skin is to only cleanse in the evening.

Skinome has two cleansers, Mineral Cleanser and Five Point Cleanser , both of which cleanse gently but effectively and have a moisturizing effect. They contain very mild surfactants, skin-derived oils, as well as pre- and postbiotics.

3. Soften and moisturize with skin-like ingredients

So-called skin-like ingredients are substances that are naturally found in the skin and that the skin is therefore used to. These ingredients work with the skin and support the skin's natural function. The skin has evolved over more than 300,000 years and is a super-competent system that we should preferably disturb as little as possible. Skin-like humectants and emollients are undoubtedly the most important ingredients for dry and sensitive skin.

Emollients: Skin-like emollients include ceramides, squalane, lecithin and cholesterol. These are all found in the skin's own beneficial mixture of oils and water which, together with humectants, are so important for healthy and strong skin.

Humectants: To help the skin retain moisture, we can help by adding ingredients that bind water to the skin. Glycerin, urea and PCA are also naturally found in the skin where they bind water in the top layer and hydrate the skin.

When developing Skinome's products, we place great emphasis on using skin-like ingredients such as the emollients and moisture-binding substances recommended above, which are suitable for dry and sensitive skin. In our new Intense Emulsion moisturizer , which is developed to care for and build up sensitive and also dry to very dry skin, we also use the sugar erythritol, which together with urea and PCA increases the skin's moisture content.

4. Feed your good bacteria

All the trillions of microorganisms that live on our skin and that make up the skin's microbiome help, among other things, to moisturize the skin and have an anti-inflammatory function. We know that a great diversity of bacteria is good for the skin and there are ways to increase diversity that also contribute to a balanced microbiome, which is of great importance for healthy and strong skin.

An imbalance in the microbiome has been linked to skin diseases such as acne, psoriasis, eczema and rosacea, but also to sensitive skin. The microbiome can become unbalanced through the use of skin care products that contain ingredients that can interfere, such as preservatives.

To correct the balance and enrich the microbiome, pre-pro or postbiotics can be used. Simply put, prebiotics are fibers that act as food for our good bacteria, probiotics are good, living bacteria and postbiotics are substances produced by the good bacteria. By using skin care that contains biotics, you can in the long run build up your skin, increase the diversity of good bacteria and make it less sensitive.

Many of Skinome's products contain either pre-, pro- or postbiotics. Probiotic Concentrate , which contains live lactic acid bacteria of the Lactobacillus reuteri variety, has been developed to suit dry and sensitive skin.

Lactobacillus reuteri is the most well-studied probiotic bacterium in the world and has 224 clinical studies behind it and over 200 patents. Each bottle contains over 100 billion bacteria and in clinical studies we have been shown to increase the diversity of good bacteria on the skin and have a very positive effect on skin health.