How to Level Up Your Routine Without Overloading Your Skin

Wondering how to level up your skin routine without overloading and irritating your skin? Read on as Venofye shares some pro tips!

Know What Overloaded Skin Looks Like

If you’re planning on making changes to your skincare routine, the first step is to ensure that you know what overloaded skin looks like. This way, as soon as you begin to see the first signs of your skin potentially feeling overwhelmed, you can scale things back:

Redness and sensitivities – overloading your skin compromises your skin’s natural protective barrier. This means that irritants find it easier to enter the skin, resulting in sensitivities, inflammation, and redness.
Skin that feels overly oily – damage to your skin barrier can send your sebaceous glands into overdrive. They’ll start to produce more oil, leaving your skin feeling overly greasy.
Skin that feels dry and tight – while overloaded skin can sometimes be overly oily, dryness and tightness can also occur.
Increased breakouts – whether it’s because you’re using the wrong products or you’re applying too many products, it’s easy for pores to end up clogged when you switch up your skincare routine. This can cause breakouts to develop.
Product pilling – this is when skincare products form tiny balls on the surface of the skin. It’s a sign that your products aren’t being absorbed properly.

Make Sure That You Have Good Foundations in Place

Before even thinking about leveling up your skin routine, you need to ensure that you have good foundations in place. This refers to the skincare essentials – the products that every skincare routine should contain.

A cleanser is the first. Make sure that yours is suitable for your skin type. Dry skin benefits from a creamy, moisturizing cleanser, like the Venofye Blossom Bee Clarifying Cream Cleanser, whereas foaming cleansers work well for oily skin.

A moisturizer is another necessity for all skin types. We’d recommend having two: an SPF moisturizer for the daytime (to save you from needing a separate product for the third essential: sunscreen), and a richer cream for the night. The Venofye Blossom Bee Quenching Night Cream is perfect for this.

Choose Multitasking Products Whenever Possible

One way to tackle a few different visible skin concerns without overloading your skin with too many products is to opt for multitasking formulas whenever possible. Products that contain a diverse blend of targeted ingredients are capable of helping the complexion in several different ways.

Take the Venofye Blossom Bee Vitamin C Serum, for example. Vitamin C is already known for being an amazing multitasker. Research shows that it can help with the visibility of everything from wrinkles to dark spots. Being an antioxidant, it also counters the appearance of free radical damage. Add to this the other potent antioxidant sources in this serum, from vitamin A to bee venom, plus a blend of hydrating plant oils, and you have yourself a powerful formula that can really transform the look of the skin.

The Venofye Iron Bee Boosting Serum is another multitasking product worth knowing about. It contains a few different humectants – ingredients that bind moisture to the skin to quickly hydrate. Sodium hyaluronate, collagen, and peptides are all famous for how they boost the skin’s moisture content. Those peptides are also superstars at leaving the skin barrier feeling stronger and thicker. The fact that this serum also contains some powerful antioxidants makes it all the better. With 3-O-ethyl ascorbic acid being one of them, it could double up as your vitamin C serum too.

Look Into Weekly Boosters

If your daily skincare routine already seems to be working well for your skin, it would be a shame to mess with that! With that said, this doesn’t mean that your skin needs to miss out on those new ingredients you’ve been wanting to try. Instead of adding them to your daily skin routine and running the risk of overloading your skin, seek out weekly products instead.

Face masks, for instance, are usually designed to be used on a weekly basis. They’re a great way to elevate your overall skincare efforts while experimenting with new ingredients. The Venofye Beehive HydraLift Mask is infused with several superfood extracts that will give your skin cells access to some truly potent antioxidants. The silky, melty quality of this leave-on mask will also make your skin routine feel extra indulgent!

The Serpent Thermatox Mask from our Serpent Thermatox Collection is also popular among those looking for a weekly skincare treat. It’s a thermal mask, meaning that it heats up when it’s applied to the skin. This makes it easier for the vitamins and antioxidants in the mask to penetrate the skin, while also giving your skin routine a spa-like touch!

Try Skin Cycling

While blindly following skincare trends is never a good idea, skin cycling is one that has received the thumbs-up from dermatologists all over the world. It’s a technique that involves rotating your use of certain skincare ingredients/products, so that your skin can benefit from them without feeling overwhelmed and irritated.

Here’s what a typical skin cycling cycle looks like:

Night 1: Exfoliate your skin after cleansing, before carrying out your normal skincare routine. Use a gentle exfoliator that won’t harm your skin barrier, like the Venofye Blossom Bee Facial Peeling.
Night 2: Add a retinoid, such as a retinol serum, to your skincare routine.
Nights 3 and 4: Focus on encouraging your skin’s natural healing and recovery processes. Use gentle skincare products – ingredients that soothe your complexion.

By giving your skin the chance to repair and rejuvenate, it will be much more receptive to the active ingredients that you apply on the second night of the cycle. Rather than having to deal with inflammation as a barrier, those actives will be able to work their magic unhindered.

Pay Attention to Compatibility

If you’re experimenting with adding new products to your skin routine, it’s so important to know which ingredients shouldn’t be mixed. Many people aren’t aware that certain ingredients are incompatible until their skin responds in a big way to the addition of just one new product.

One example of an unsuitable pair is retinol and exfoliating acids. Both have a very stimulating effect on the skin. This is why in the skin cycling cycle we shared above, the two are used on different nights. Alternatively, if you want to use vitamin A after you exfoliate, go for a gentler derivative, such as the retinyl palmitate found in the Venofye Iron Bee Transforming Cream.

Benzoyl peroxide is another ingredient to be careful with. If you suffer from acne, you’ll likely be familiar with this ingredient. However, due to how harsh it is, it should never be combined with other powerful actives. Avoid using it with any sort of retinoid too, as benzoyl peroxide has an inactivating effect.

Introduce One New Product at a Time

While we may have talked about adding different ingredients and products to your skincare routine, it’s important that you don’t go overboard with how you do so. New skincare products should be introduced gradually – rushing things will more than likely overwhelm your skin!

This means only adding one new product at a time to your skin routine. Then, wait for at least two to three weeks before adding in another new formula. While this may seem like a frustratingly long time, especially if you’re making a few changes to your skincare routine, you need to give your skin time to grow accustomed to each new product before exposing it to the next.

Build Up Tolerance With Potent Actives

Speaking of adding new products to your skincare routine…

If the new product you’ve bought contains potent actives, a gradual introduction becomes even more crucial. Sure, it may be tempting to start using that new product every day, but this will likely only overwhelm your skin.

Instead, always introduce powerful products by using them just two or three times a week to begin with. After a couple of weeks, you can start to increase that frequency until you’re using the new product daily.

Always Patch Test

You never know how your skin is going to react to a new product. Even if that product contains some ingredients that you’ve used before, different ingredient combinations can change how your skin feels about a formula.

This is why patch testing new skincare is always recommended. It’s a technique that involves applying a small amount of a new skincare product to a patch of skin on your inner arm. Then, wait for 24-48 hours (or even longer if your skin is very sensitive) before repeating the test on a small patch of skin on your face. If, after another 24-48 hours, your skin seems to be happy, you can then go ahead and apply that product to the rest of your face.

Be Patient

While you may be hoping to see instant results from the new additions to your skin routine, this doesn’t usually happen. Instead, skincare products need some time to take effect. You may need to wait up to two months before you start to notice a difference in your complexion.

For some people, this wait can be difficult. It’s easy to be impatient, to the point that if you don’t see a difference in your skin after a few weeks, you toss that product out and swap it for something else. This, however, will only overload your skin in the long run. It won’t have time to get used to the new ingredients you’re giving it before you suddenly bombard it with more, which can cause a whole host of problems.

Instead, be patient and give your new skincare products plenty of time to work before you make a judgment call.

Level Up Your Skin Routine With Venofye

As you can see, there are plenty of tweaks that you can make to your skincare routine if you’re hoping to see better results from your efforts. However, be sure to follow the advice that we’ve shared above to ensure that you don’t overload your skin while doing so!

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