What Is Your Skin Type?

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The need to know your skin type cannot be overstated because your skin type determines what products you need for skin care and how much acne may affect you.

Ask yourself the following questions and be honest with the answers:

How often do you have acne breakouts?
Do you get blackheads?
How does your skin look and feel after you wash it with soap and water?
Do you have facial lines and wrinkles that are hard to clean?

These questions and the answers to them will give you a certain amount of knowledge about the type of skin you have and which products may work best for you.

The three basic skin types are normal, dry and oily BUT few people have a skin type that falls into a single group.

Your skin might be a combination of normal to oily or oily to dry. Regardless of your skin type, you will probably be able to find a product that fits your needs.

Each skin type has its own characteristics. The texture, oil production by the body and the frequency of acne breakouts vary with each type.

Dry skin does not promote acne breakouts or blackheads. Excess oil promotes acne breakout and blackheads are cause by oil and people with dry skin do NOT have excess oil.

Dry skin has a lot of nearly visible pores and might feel dry and tight after washing. The people with this skin type are often fair skinned, easily get sunburns and develop wrinkles earlier in life than other skin types.

People with normal skin types have occasional pimple breakouts and may have blackheads mostly in the t-zone the area on either side of the nose and on the forehead. With this skin type, the pores often appear visible in the t-zone and the skin may feel tight after washing but it will soon become comfortable once the body fills the t-zone with oil.

Normal skin types frequently have fair to medium skin and lines that may appear early but mostly around the eyes. Sun exposure often results in burns then tans.

Oily skinned people are the ones that have the most acne breakouts and blackheads. After washing, the pores are often enlarged and the skin might be oily with the forehead and nose becoming shiny in a short period of time.

People with oily skin usually have dark or olive tinted skin. The skin oil helps preserve the skin so facial lines are either few or happen later in life. Sunburns are rare but tans are easily acquired with the oily skin type.

The acne product or the skin care product you choose is greatly influenced by the skin type you are.

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